(#) BenRG 2008-02-03
Another interesting chapter. I'm particularly enjoying the flashbacks. Harry was, at the time of his adoption, pretty badly damaged. However, it seems that Tony has cured a lot of that damage (and, at the same time, had quite a bit of his damage healed too). Dumbledore has yet to realise that Harry now has self-esteem and self-confidence and is therefore most assuredly not the manipulable pawn that he planned to have.
It is looking like Dumbledore is pretty slow on his feet when improvisation and re-thinking strategy is needed. He'd better wise up or Lucius is not going to need the excuse of the Beast of Slytherin going on a rampage to get rid of him. Amelia may do the job instead.
I wonder if Harry will still get his Christmas Present this year? I have this mental image of Tony plus all of Stark International's research people trying to work out how the Perevel/Potter Invisibility Cloak works.
I'm looking forward to the consequences as time moves on of Harry's different nature and better skill level (especially next year, with the opening of the Chamber). I also wonder if a certain isolated dreamy Ravenclaw girl is going to find that she has a knight in shining technomagical armour.
Author's response
- It's a balancing act. The reviews with the last chapter told me how much they liked the flashbacks, this one I've gotten 9 reviews (so far) telling me to stop using them, with yours being the only one in support... What to do...
- One thing that bothered me about canon was the way that the Aurors seemed to completely ignore everything that happened at Hogwarts...
- Truefully I hadn't really given the cloak much thought, since invisibility isn't all that rare in the Marvel Universe. I was planning to integrate some stealth/camouflage capabilities to the next generation Techsuit.
- The Chamber will still open, but that's about the only similarity to the original story.