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I'm a lurker and have been ever since I was delighted to discover that FanFiction existed online about 12 years ago. I used to have nearly every Star Trek ff novel ever published, but it wasn't until I stumbled onto "LiveJournal" and found that they had a thriving ff community, writing ff for a couple of my favorite books and shows that FanFiction is alive and well and NOT JUST for us "old fogie" ST: TOS & SW fans anymore!😎
NO, HP is *not* one of those favorites.

As a matter of fact, it wasn't until 2012 that I accidentally read an SPNff story that was actually a crossover with an *unlabeled* and *untagged* HPff! I was already several pages in before they introduced an abused child named "Harry"!

That I'd found a writer who ACKNOWLEDGED the *child abuse* found throughout this "touted" and "ballyhooed" work of unattributed FANFICTION was, to me, a *revelation*! Prior to *that* story, I'd avoided HPff like the plague!

For me, to see the "Harry Potter" label on a story was the "kiss of death"!

I'm a Fantasy & Science Fiction BIBLIOHOLIC and have been since I was about 4-years-old, so when my husband's nephew came to live with us, in 2005, and I saw that he had the first 5 [HP] novels, I was *eager* to read them [picture "grabby hands ;D]! But the story *started* out /Dark/; I began to get a bad feeling when this creepy "Gandalf" knock-off started turning off streetlights! I was already unsettled when the teacher and "Gandalf" stood there debating leaving a 15-month-old *TODDLER* *OUTSIDE* on a doorstep in *November*! I just *knew* that "Gandalf" was going to turn out to be the real (true) villain of the books!

Nothing has changed my mind since.

Further reading of the 5 books saw me finding instance after instance of nearly direct *steals* from many *classic* Fantasy novels and MY childhood favorites; how could people tout books that were filled with unattributed plagiarism?

How could people *applaud* books that used unmitigated, unremedied, and even *IGNORED* child abuse and bullying (of MULTIPLE characters!) as *PLOT DEVICES*?!

Anyhoo, discovering HPff and finding that there are a LOT of writers --and READERS-- who feel as I do and work diligently to "write"(;D) the wrongs of the books are what has made me an HPff fanatical *fan*!

Thank you, HPff writers! Y'all keep me going and bring some sanity, humor, and justice to an insane world!

You make this old "lurker" very happy!

Bless you, all! [Report This]
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Following the disasterous Third Task, Harry begins to notice two things about himself. First: his appearence has begun to change. Second: something is very very wrong. The Cruciatus shouldn't continue to be causing him pain this far out from having received it, should it?

Takes Place: 5th summer, 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Kind
Tags: Disguised!Harry, Injured!Harry, New Identity!Harry, Physical Impairment
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape > Severitus Challenge
Rated: T - Warnings: Neglect, Out of Character
Chapters: 47 - Completed: No - Updated: 13 Jan 2023 / 08 Jan 2021
Series: None - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 26: Chapter 26 20 Aug 2021
Reviewer: LtsHrIt4ThBoys (Signed)
    So COOL! Using Draco - Pureblood Scion and a mundane "potato battery" to prove that electricity boosts magical power!

    It also explains why Eli's accidental magic was amplified at the hospital to actually eject Hermione out the door and into a wall instead of just pushing her to leave!

    Excellent! Love *some* of the arcs!

    Wow, Ron's the one using his brain; are you sure you didn't have Ron and Hermione switch bodies?

    Thanks!
    MelJ

Title: Chapter 27: Chapter 27 20 Aug 2021
Reviewer: LtsHrIt4ThBoys (Signed)
    Okay, guys, you're starting to use your brains, but DON'T SPREAD IT AROUND! Try, try, TRY to realize that that "Hogwarts Rumor Mill" can work to put Elias in deadly danger!

    Please?!!

    Thanks!
    MelJ

Title: Chapter 27: Chapter 27 20 Aug 2021
Reviewer: LtsHrIt4ThBoys (Signed)
    Okay, guys, you're starting to use your brains, but DON'T SPREAD IT AROUND! Try, try, TRY to realize that that "Hogwarts Rumor Mill" can work to put Elias in deadly danger!

    Please?!!

    Please, don't take this the wrong way, but Tonks' investigation and suspicions PERFECTLY match what I've said ever since I read the books: Either Rowling's parallel universe is *really* screwed-up when it comes to child abuse OR "someone's" been preventing Harry from being rescued and more than likely has been "encouraging" the Dursleys to make Harry's life as miserable and painful as possible, just short of killing him!

    Why? So that he's willing and *eager* to leave *this* wretched life and allow Moldy to kill him --and kill the Horcrux in Harry-- which will fulfill the bs Prophecy and then Dingleberry can step up and kill Moldy and be the big hero again!

    The really sad thing is that I know exactly how Harry felt! I failed twice to kill myself before I was even a teenager! If I hadn't had my *escape* --my books like "Jane Eyre", "Thursday's Child", and "Tom Brown's School Days" and others that told of adults who did *care* and did *rescue* the abused, neglected, and bullied kids; the books that gave me *hope* of escaping my childhood misery!-- I might have tried again and succeeded!
    I'll tell you one thing if I'd read the HP books at that time in my life, I'd have given up hope and tried a lot harder!

    I hope you kill off the MOB! Pleeeease??

    Thanks!
    MelJ

Title: Chapter 28: Chapter 28 20 Aug 2021
Reviewer: LtsHrIt4ThBoys (Signed)
    Yep, Dumblefu** the Delusional!
    Btw, BS the Dursleys *didn't* physically abuse Harry! Just because her ghostwriters at Bloomsbury edited out the graphic abuse that Rowling DID write, doesn't mean the tell-tales *aren't* still littered throughout the books!

    Let me know, and I'll send you the links from Quora and a couple of other sites where the writers did their due diligence and list the many, many "hints" left behind!

    How about the line, "Aunt Petunia swung the frying pan at his head, but it must have been a half-hearted attempt because he was able to duck, so she missed *this time*." Or the times that Harry was *wary* of getting in range of Vernon's hands, so he couldn't grab him!

    Just those TWO show that Harry had been subjected to physical abuse and not just by Dudley and his gang! Getting THROWN, bodily into a cupboard under the stairs with the shelving, cleaning tools, and the stairs right above IS physical abuse!
    What about Bumblingbore's *threat* to Petunia? "Petunia, remember my last!"

    Excuse me, but what "last"? That says that Dumbles has threatened Petunia before! But if there's been no contact between the Dursleys and him and the only one being "the letter" left with Harry on the doorstep, WHAT *LAST*?! What was the warning? To stop nearly killing the toddler/little boy? Or that they needed to step up the program of degradation?

    I'd dearly *love* to find out the context behind that!

    Gosh, I'm not getting any replies; I'm beginning to wonder if my reviews are going to you. You usually do reply...

    Oh, well.
    Talk to you soon!
    MelJ

Title: Chapter 29: Chapter 29 21 Aug 2021
Reviewer: LtsHrIt4ThBoys (Signed)
    Aww, breakin' my heart again!

    Poor kid!

    Sev needs to sneak out one weekend and take Elias to get the prophecy NOW! No dawdling, no procrastination; now! Then they'll be able to get an idea of what's going through Dumbasfu**'s head!

    Thanks!
    MelJ

Title: Chapter 30: Chapter 30 21 Aug 2021
Reviewer: LtsHrIt4ThBoys (Signed)
    Ahhh, but there's the clue; the first thing that Remus read! They discovered that they *could* move magical populations away from ley lines as long as there was sufficient electrical infrastructure which would not only allow magicals to "recharge" their cores but also allow them to increase their power levels! This would also mean that magic does *not* necessarily interfere with /shielded/ electrical devices!

    So, who would it benefit the most to keep magicals *away* from electricity and to prevent anyone from researching the value gained by magicals being around it? Hmmmm? Would it have been *before* a certain twinkly-eyed goat buggerer?

    I'm hoping that Umbitch wears out her "welcome" *before* she takes it into her head to do something to Eli!
    I'm proud of Sev for standing up to her; I'm actually surprised that Dingleberry didn't try to intercede between them and then try to come down on Elias for having the book! "I'll just confiscate this for now, until I can ascertain if there's anything too 'sensitive' for Young Elias to be studying!" Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle.

    Thanks!
    MelJ

Title: Chapter 31: Chapter 31 21 Aug 2021
Reviewer: LtsHrIt4ThBoys (Signed)
    Good, Sev, *good*! I'm so glad he didn't dismiss what the rat-bastard said out of hand! When Elias wakes up ask him if he dreamed of the meeting? What did he see? Did he see the evil wanker kill Nott? Did he experience Sev being crucioed?

    If Sev would just think it through he'd realize that Eli *isn't* "relapsing", he's experiencing being freshly crucioed! The effect must be cumulative as this time he almost died!

    You're doing an infinitely better job of *honestly* conveying the effects of the crucio curse through Harry's scar than in canon! I thought it typical of Rowling to dismiss Harry *feeling* the crucio, yet no one ever thought to offer HIM treatment after one of his visions!

    Hmmm, so Shannon *doesn't* know that the child that Dinkless brought to her with the dark magic surrounding him and the cut on his forehead and Sev's son Elias are the same child. I would have still figured that her scans would pick up the dark energy from the Horcrux, though!

    Well, Sev's going to *have* to do something soon or Moldy is going to kill him or permanently damage him unknowingly!

    Poor Teddy! Well, at least the murder of his mother and baby sister have been avenged! Cold comfort maybe, but that's how I'd see it.

    Whew, tough chapter!😢
    MelJ

Title: Chapter 32: Chapter 32 21 Aug 2021
Reviewer: LtsHrIt4ThBoys (Signed)
    YES! Now you're using that incredible brain, Sev!

    Good! Get Shannon!🤗

    Tks!
    MelJ

Title: Chapter 33: Chapter 33 21 Aug 2021
Reviewer: LtsHrIt4ThBoys (Signed)
    Good, Hermione, think it through; don't go rushing off half-cocked again. Lupin's not a bad choice to go to IF he's not fully still in the MOB's knickers!

    Aw, poor baby!! My heart feels for him!

    They should have put him back into the healing sleep before taking him to the Hospital Wing, then he'd have slept through the portkey!

    Well, maybe if he sees that the portkey didn't take him anyplace bad, it'll help the residual trauma. I hope!

    Tks!
    MelJ

Title: Chapter 34: Chapter 34 21 Aug 2021
Reviewer: LtsHrIt4ThBoys (Signed)
    Nope, I didn't!😏 I just hoped that *Remus* wouldn't!

    Good! Sev needed someone else to share this secret with. Remus was a good choice.

    I just *love* how Sev keeps taking the wind out of Umbitch's sails!

    Now, he just needs to brew an undetectable poison for the bee-ahtch OR something to make her start spouting paranoid rantings...permanently!

    Tks!
    MelJ


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