Name: Oregonian (Signed) · Date: 20 Feb 2021 07:09 PM · For: Chapter 2

Well, now I understand a little bit more (?).  It's partly magic and partly not, an entry into the magic world via the "dimension shifter".

 

I can see what Mr. McLeod is talking about.  Stuff becomes so embedded in fanon that it really is hard to separate it from canon.  Like Ted Tonks being in Hufflepuff.  I've run across other examples myself, although none of them come to mind right now.  And reviewers have said, concerning a few of my stories, that they sounded so real that the reviewers had to go back to the books and check to see that the information in my stories was not in canon somewhere.

 

You have a good blend of magic functioning (the bubble head devices that Zeke and Drema used) with the muggle imitation (the unmagic wands with on-off switches to mimic the Lumos charm).  I'm glad you didn't give Zeke and Drema full-out magic powers.  This is supposed to be the real world (well, sort of).

 

Your writing is, as always, a joy to read -- polished, well-edited and above all, good storytelling.  

Thank you for writing.

 

Vicki

Snow Foxes

Author's Response:

Thank you for the review. If I every get a fully flushed out idea, I'll add more chapters. Each chapter will be separate adventure to "save" the Wizarding World. 

Name: Oregonian (Signed) · Date: 20 Feb 2021 06:31 PM · For: Chapter 1

Oh my gosh, this is cute.  I would never have guessed that final line.  We have all just benn convicted.  I love the imagination of this story, and the great lengths that your characters have gone to, to create this replica of Hogwarts Castle.  

 

I had no idea where this story was going.  The magical world?  Real life? It was all pretty confusing.  I am eager to read the next chapter.

 

Does this story have an ulterior motive, such as saving the Potterverse from bad writing (of which I hve seen a lot on some dreadful sites), or stamping out AU stories that veer from the strict canon?  But surely nobody wants to discourage imagination or the extension of the known Potterverse to new times, new places, new characters, do they?

 

I can see that a person working in this job that Zeke just embarked on could end up living in a mindset where he doesn't know what is real and what is fiction?  Or maybe it was all real all along, just masquerading as fiction?  Lots of possibilities here.

 

Very enjoyable!

 

Vicki

Snow Foxes.

Author's Response:

Thank you for the review. I wouldn't say they want to stamp out fanfiction writers (despite the boss's complaints) but sometimes they just get out of hand. . . Even when we blur the boundaries of imagination and reality, we have to set limits.