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• YOU DON’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU ASK FOR

  (#) darthridian 2010-05-15

  
  great story so far, would love to see where you take this story.
  
  keep up the great writing.
  

• YOU DON’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU ASK FOR

  (#) brad 2010-05-15

  Harry is a rather ... evil ... person in this story, isn't he? Well, with a harsh 'take no prisoners' side to him. But shrouded by secrecy, which is the twist which is a bit disturbing. His hexing the Malfoys surreptitiously with a curse that would render them impotent in 3 weeks. And now in this chapter, sneaking another mortal curse on Umbridge. Very underhanded.
  
  I was a bit taken aback at the students' revolt and wondered why Dumbledore didn't do anything to force them into compliance with his orders (like to go to their common rooms). On the other hand I couldn't think of anything a headmaster could do in those circumstances short of using force, which wouldn't go down well, even in the less progressive magical world.
  
  Had to laugh at McGonagall's revelation as to exactly how Snape abused the points system. Walking too fast/slow/loudly. Hee! :-)
  
  Thanks for the chapter!

  Author's response

  Harry evil? No (at least I wouldn't say so), but this Harry is part the abused/bullied 14 year old and partly an ice-cold powerful assassin who was trained and then paid to kill 'bad guys'. In a sense, Harry has 'Dumbledore syndrome' -- that is, they are both willing to do nasty things 'for the greater good'
  
  Unlike Dumbledore, however, he is willing to kill killers, and has a different idea on what 'the good' is.
  
  I would say, however, that the only other 'kill on sight' (as opposed to curse on sight, as he did the Malfoys, Snape, and Dumbledore) besides Umbridge would be Bella

• YOU DON’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU ASK FOR

  (#) TheOldOne 2010-05-16

  nice story just like all of them thank you for them all

• YOU DON’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU ASK FOR

  (#) Meteoricshipyards 2010-05-17

  Just saw the musical 1776 this weekend. Amazing that the American revolution got off the ground....
  
  Love this Magical revolution. Seems that every time Dumbles turns around he's getting another blow to his long held beliefs.
  
  Thanks for the story.
  
  Tom A.

• YOU DON’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU ASK FOR

  (#) Snowdove30 2010-05-17

  Another excellently written story :) I know when I see your name that the story will be awesome.
  I hope the information regarding the fees gets out to the muggleborn families.
  

• YOU DON’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU ASK FOR

  (#) maddsloth 2010-05-17

  So far a cool story. Poor Umbridge my she rot in hell, I have only seen one or two stories where the disenfranchised rise up against their minority oppressors. looking forward to the next update.

• YOU DON’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU ASK FOR

  (#) PGHammer21 2017-05-18

  The Dursleys were already neutralized before the QWC (remember, this is still fourth year - the Year of Crouch Junior). The ONLY Horcrux left is the (fake) Hufflepuff Cup (still in Gringott's). Six DEs (including Lucius Malfoy) are already deader than doorknobs. Harry (and even the Hogwarts staff) are basically preparing the battlefield (of ideas) - note that NONE of the information in anything that has been said (so far) was news to anyone that could read - it was ignored in wizarding Britain; however, it certainly would not have been news to any magical that read any newspaper other than the Prophet (I like the nom de guerre used in another fanfic for the Prophet - "Magical Pravda"; for those of you that follow Russia, how much did readership of the REAL "Pravda" take off when it stopped being the government mouthpiece - and how much said readership fell when it went back to being a mouthpiece once again?) As far as the TWT, "bread and circuses" - further, MUST I remind you that the last TWT had one hundred percent casualties among the contestants - which is why it fell WAY out of favor? A bullfight has MARGINALLY better odds for a toreador; remember, the bull is, in fact, armed (horns and hooves), and that is merely vs. a rodeo bull-rider (who is unarmed).

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