(#) brad 2007-11-18
What an excellent, chilling, macabre sentence on Vernon! "The next time you fall asleep". Brrrr. Just that creative punishment alone made this chapter.
I like Old One's partial acceptance of Sirius's guilt; they're being open, but you haven't had them automatically assume that the Magical world got it wrong, which would be too simplistic for the story.
I didn't like the use of horcruxes by 'old ones' in your other stories - White Warlock? - but Mo's clarification that the 'death of a sentient' need NOT be murder made it more ethically acceptable, here.
Two animagus forms, hey, once Harry's sorted out the 'conflict'? Nice idea. I wonder if he'll lose one form, and the parseltongue, when Voldemort is vanquished?
Continuing to hate ficwad, FYI; e-mail notifications never work, for you or the other two authors I'm tracking. A visit to the forum here seems to show that the site has many problems.
Author's response
My real choices seem to be ficwad or fiction alley, and I really have no deisre to get paragraphs from their mods scolding me for being an awful writer if there's a space after a hyphen or have to resubmit a chapter if I fail to capitalize Horcrux.
Whatever Harry retains after the Horcrux is broken will stay retained, but not everything can be kept.
"T"