(#) brad 2006-06-06
Heh. One of the characteristics of many Dr. T stories, you often have neither Harry nor Voldemort (or Dumbledore) alone at the top of the magic world. Voldemort needing assistance to get a body is a nice little slant on things; most other stories have him doing things entirely on his own.
Probably about time for the bad guy(s) to put one over our heroes; Riddle got away two chapters ago, and now he's imperiused Percy to get some of Harry's blood. Plus the oversight on not vacating all the Riddle graves.
Snape continues to bemuse me. An obsessed Snape, irrational in his subconscious undirected hatred of Harry is one thing. This one knows, intellectually, that he hates Harry, and why; you'd think he would have enough brainpower to reason his way around it. I don't have any sympathy for him at all, the man's an idiot, ruled by his baser emotions. Bah!
Nice picture of how things are improving at Hogwarts, viz the students' integration.
Bellatrix at the cauldron, ready to slice off her ..... ugh. That's an image I didn't need.
Enjoying the story!
Author's response
I just can't visualize one person that far ahead of a curve. And if Volemort was (say) that powerful, why he wouldn't have had less problems shaking up the entire world, magical & muggle. And yes, Voldemort needed a win.
Of course, Harry thinks 'outside the box' in this story
"T"