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Reviews for Changing of the Guard

By : Lomonaaeren
  • From Lunatichero on June 15, 2008
    It feels like, in a deranged, not really, kind of way, I'm watching a story about The Hulk. Maybe I'm influenced by the release of the movie,
    but I have some qualifiers. Harry's ability is something that he can't change, though his isn't as dangerous, and he doesn't actually want
    to get rid of it, it scares the people around him, and the ones he tells about it, save perhaps Draco, want to make it stop. He has a huge
    confrontation with most of the important people in his life and then, when the sun comes up on the next day, he's still using it, but now,
    he's using it as a tool for Harry, instead of a cover for Harry. He's learned to control the portrayal of his abilities. I know I didn't say ]
    alot today, but the story is at a happy place (kinda) right now, and we all know that happiness needs much less comment than despair.

    Thank you,
    Lunatic with a Hero Complex
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  • From ANON - SoftObsidian74 on June 15, 2008
    Sorry, I just had to comment on Yume's last comment. When he said "And the knowledge of being someone of worth, of immense worth, rises like a sun, lighting up his entire being.
    And he won
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  • From ANON - SoftObsidian74 on June 15, 2008
    YES!!! Last line is perfection! He is there, he's ready...bring on the rebellion baby! LOVED this chapter for so many reasons. I like how you showed how the little things in someone's life can have a cumulative effect and impact their functioning, outlook and disposition in general. I'm so sorry Harry had such a weight to bear, and no one seemed to be there to help him through it because those burdens seemed so small and they were basically invisible until it snowballed out of control. I hope Hermione considers both Harry's and Draco's words and comes to reason and bring Ron to do so also...although I have little hope for him. Draco is such a kickass boyfriend, everyone needs someone like that in their life. I love that Harry finally made love to him as Harry, no tricks, and it was beautiful in its imperfection. GREAT writing there. Well...I'm psyched about the fight to come, bring it on baby. AWESOME update as usual.
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  • From Yume111 on June 15, 2008
    #37
    That was almost too painful to read. Please take this as a compliment for your writing, and thank you for updating so soon after.
    #38
    What a wonderful chapter, one of the most gripping you have done, and it brought tears to my eyes.
    I
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  • From avihenda on June 15, 2008
    great chapter, great read! :-)
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  • From Christabell on June 13, 2008
    Wow.

    What a chapter. Your writing leaves me breathless, sometimes. The way you captured Harry's disease here, the way his mind twisted everything and convinced him to try to make the potion, and then Draco's perfect way of knowing just how to handle him, even when he didn't actually know... It was just beautiful. Harry needed to realize he didn't have to be 'normal' or good or any of those other words. He just had to be all of himself, for both himself and Draco.

    Really, I'm a bit in awe right now :)
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  • From ANON - Lakoma on June 13, 2008
    There is so much emotional turmoil going on in Harry's life that it's truly a wonder that he hasn't committed suicide yet. Even though you can't talk about what Lucius has done yet, I dread what will happen in future chapters. Will Harry's psyche ever be put to rest? Will he and Draco eventually end up together and happy with no one to interfere? And why doesn't someone AK Hermione for deciding what's best for Harry? After all, he knows that he's nuts, and he's happy that way. I WANT HAPPY! Am I ever going to get it? For more than a chapter? I really love this story, but I hate it at the same time. My emotions are run over, built back up, then SMASHED again. You are a wonderful writer. Keep up the good work.
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  • From genna on June 13, 2008
    I thoroughly enjoy the mature configuration of this Harry. He perfectly flawed and heartened. Sanity is a construct that all of us hide behind.

    I enjoy Draco's embrace of what Harry has done to adapt. I wish most fanfic could be as pure as this creation. You are a gifted student of persona.
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  • From Mangacat on June 13, 2008
    Yep, definitely a bit shizo, but not in the ordinary kind of way (what is ever ordinary with HARRY POTTER?) Well, and I can also see where this came from.. now they just have to sort out this mess with Hermione and Ron, and fast at that.. but your descriptions of Harry's world are so fascinating and heart-wrenching... beautiful!!
    Cat
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  • From wyatt on June 13, 2008
    Wow! Chapter 38 was really good.

    And well, being that this is perhaps my first time writing a review of this fic, I just want to congratulate you for a job well done.

    The emotions are just so intense and come across as being real to the point that I was able to imagine in the scene wanting to be Draco... and help him realize that everything is him..

    Very very original and well-written!

    Again, congratulations!
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  • From FallenAngel1129 on June 13, 2008
    oh your evil! this was a wonderful chapter...you were so good at changing his personas that i thought i had clicked on a whole nother story lol...if i were still in my college psyc(is that right?) i would take this and show this to my teacher, its a perfect example of mutiple personality disorder but at the same time not? because he has control over them 95% of the time,...anywho great story lol
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  • From thrnbrooke on June 13, 2008
    Soooo need chapter 39!!! Will Harry agree?
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  • From Lunatichero on June 13, 2008
    I want to thank you for your pity for the rabid reader. It is a far kinder thing you do than you know. Harry's confidence as each persona can
    truly turn around and become a crippling sense of self loathing from a hundred different sources. He has to be careful, because as much
    as he's able to love or hate his personas, he has to deal with the personas loving or hating him back. Draco understands that loving Harry
    is like loving an entire town of people as a whole. You can't decide to love this or that persona, and just ignore him when he's any of the
    others, you may not particularly like them all, but you love them no matter what, and you just kind of wait out the people you aren't as fond of.
    It could get a little confusing though, knowing exactly who you're talking to, and when. And knowing how to deal with each of them, what
    some of them don't like, what is a touchy subject with such and such.
    And the like
    Anyway,
    Thanks for the early update.
    Lunatic with a Hero Complex
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  • From ANON - MeLaiya on June 13, 2008
    HooWee, you are damn good. I am absolutely floored by the level of brilliance your writing portrays. Please keep up the good work and update a.s.a.p.
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  • From kalaway on June 13, 2008
    I can't tell you how good I think this concept is. It's really really good! Maybe it's just me being a psychology nerd, but if you changed this around a bit so it wasn't HP related, and cleaned it up a tad I would totally buy it from Borders. It's really excellent!
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