amulder posted a comment on Thursday 25th September 2008 1:43am for Ginny

Wow, you up for the challenge?

I do disagree a touch with your prologue, in that I'm pretty sure that Viridian's NoFP was not the "first" redo out there. I know that Tim/Jeconais started one long ago, that he abandoned. But that isn't really that important.

The problem I find with most redo's is that the really good ones get to be quite long and the authors tend to get bogged down. It's a huge, huge, thing to attempt. You referred to Fate's Debt. He's practically at a standstill. I rather wish he handn't begun his big project to rewrite/improve the earlier chapters. He still isn't caught up to where he was the first time through. Sigh.

So I'm astonished that you're attempting this. I thought you'd pulled back from fanfic, and now you're attempting this?

Anyway. I do like the approach of NOT trying to hide everything. It's wise of him to realize that he needs Dumbledore's help. For one thing I think this should lead to a much more interesting redo, since it will NOT parallel canon so much, which does get tiring.

I would question the need to even re-embody Voldemort. Other redo's have gone through that also. Once you nuke all the Horcruces, I would argue that you don't necessarily have to let Voldemort re-embody.

But the challenge, if you're following through with Horcruxes, is what to do with the one in Harry's forehead. Hmm.

thanks for sharing

Mr.Intel replied:

You raised a lot of concerns in your review.   Most of them I share with you!

I'm dithering on re-embodying Voldemort for the very reason you mention last.   What to do with the Harry!Horcrux?   Either Harry has to die, or I have to come up with some non-stupid way of getting Voldiespirit out of his head.

As for making it intolerably long... Since I'm not going to stick page for page, or even chapter for chapter with canon, I don't anticipate it being too terribly long.   Whether I'm up for the challenge remains to be seen!   I'm still muddling through TMOL, which I've set a 100,000 word goal for.   We'll see how that works out and then I'll have a free run for this little project.   The *nice* thing about a redo is that most of the bones of the story are already in place.   It's just a matter or altering the skelaton a little.   ;)

liquidfyre posted a comment on Thursday 25th September 2008 1:27am for Ginny

interesting so far. I am looking forward to how you take this one.

Update soon or suffer my wraaaaath.

*begins to train his mighty army of flying turtles*

you do not want to face my wrath

*cackles insanely*

Tarkas posted a comment on Thursday 25th September 2008 1:04am for Ginny

A very interesting start, and I look forward to seeing where you take it. I am surprised somewhat by your comments in the prologue regarding Dumbledore and Snape; not that there won't be Dumbledore-bashing -- given the changes you are making, many of his mistakes will not happen this time around if he is willing to listen to Harry, and so far it seems that he is -- but I find it hard to accept "no Snape-hating" since the greasy git is, after all, directly responsible for the deaths of Harry's parents and has conducted what can only be called a vicious campaign of bullying and harrassment against their son from the first time they met. Add to that all that Harry knows that Snape would do in the future if things play out as they did, and what the not-terribly-repentant former Death Eater is capable of, and I can't see how he can but loathe the very sight of him. If I were Harry, Snivellus would be number one on my extermination list.

Now prove me wrong. B-D

Mr.Intel replied:

ROFL!   A challenge, huh?   Well... I'll try to change your mind mostly in the story as it unfolds, but it seems like there's already some "canon" evidence that would back up some of Harry's feelings.   There's a reason his second son is named Albus Severus....

Thanks for the great review!