Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying the story. I did set out to make it different from other stories. I don't necessarily go out of my way to avoid using ideas that have been used before, but there are some things that have been overdone to death.

Readers have been divided on Lupin since this story started, and most don't like him. I think in the beginning Lupin's character was the one that changed the most from where he was in canon at the same point in time (right after OotP). I don't mind if he isn't likeable... a lot of readers will like him even less by the end of the story, I think. He has a lot of problems, and he isn't fit to be what Harry needs. He cares about Harry, but he isn't able to solve Harry's problems on top of his own. He is forced into trying to do it anyway, and he is failing more often than succeeding.

Harry is misinformed or downright wrong 9 times out of 10, no matter what the subject. He sees what he expects to see.

There will be slightly more about Hadrian's looks in a future chapter, where Hermione continues her quest to prove that Hadrian is Harry. He just looks a lot like a young Snape.

A lot of what's going on with magic (and not just Harry's) is my attempt to fill in some gaps or puzzling issues with the way it was handled in the books. For example, why would a wand that's "excellent for transfiguration" and a "good wand for charms" (HP1 Ch5) choose Harry's parents when they were just eleven and couldn't have actually been good at those subjects yet? Clearly they already had something in them that set them up for success at those particular types of magic. And a magical object (wand) was able to somehow access this information. So, Harry comes to Hogwarts and he quickly figures out which types of magic come easily to him and which are difficult. Except, for Harry, his magic was not entirely his own. Not only did he have a horcrux stuck in him for over a decade, mixing its own magic with his (evidenced by his ability to speak to snakes... it became a skill he could consciously use, so there was definitely mixing involved), but in this story he also had these charms that did who knows what to him from birth. So, yes, Harry is able to use magic again, but it isn't necessarily the same magic he had before. He might find that his magical abilities are not the same as before, and not necessarily for the better. He is one magical year older, which does give him a bit more power overall, but he isn't going to be discovering superpowers or anything like that.

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