What a truly original and wonderful story...I just found it and I am hooked! Intelligent and well written. The world of fanfiction is such a vast wasteland I am thrilled to find this quality of work! Please keep writing!

Author's Response: Thank you for your kind reviews. The Budge book sounds interesting. There is a lot of great fanfiction, but it's hard to track it down, because there's just so much to wade through! I waited until I could come up with a reasonably original idea. I'm glad you're enjoying it!

I continue to love it. Your fic is like a subversive, feminist version of the Harry Potter books. Maybe not feminist, but subversive, definitely. Showing all the dark edges around the semingly fairy-tale Hogwarts. Even canon, which definitely shows the darker side of the wizarding world in general, upholds Hogwarts to be everything that's good. But H and L's discussion of the school from the perspective of Muggleborns suggests otherwise. Very interesting work.

Author's Response: I am just a subversive at heart. Obviously, I love the HP books, but there are things there I'm very uncomfortable with. My biggest problem is with the Slytherins. How can anyone justify labelling a group of eleven year old children as evil? And if they are evil, why are they allowed to be at Hogwarts? Is ambition evil? Is cunning evil? So they believe the end justifies the means. Obviously the Gryffindors agree with them, but because the Gryffindors are "good," it's OK. I really wonder how it's all going to play out. I realize that JKR is writing children's books, and that she wants to clearly delineate the good and the bad, but if you can dismiss a whole group of children as "bad," then you're taking your young readers into a false and harmful world view. I'll shut up, and just let you read the rest. No I won't. There are a lot of things about Hogwarts that bother me. It seems to me that the wizarding world doesn't do very well with its less talented children. Lots of them are obviously bullied and ignored. And what about the Squibs? Are they all despised manual laborers like Filch? It annoyed me in OOTP, when he turned out to be bad. If you've ever read the wonderful Filch stories by Ozma, you'll agree with me that she had a far more humane view of a Squib's life. If you haven't, you're in for a treat.