Ken Norton posted a comment on Friday 12th December 2008 11:42am

I laughed so hard at the line "We're a little busy here, so perhaps your physician can handle the cranial-rectal extraction". Please keep up the fantastic work you are doing on this story.

JBern replied:

Glad you liked it.   More coming soon.~Jim

Patches posted a comment on Friday 12th December 2008 11:12am

This is an excellent chapter. I love the way Harry dealt with the dragon. No harm to either except the dragon's pride. I'm sorry that Alena was hurt so badly. It gave Harry a chance to do a really honorable thing to save her life. So it ends fairly well. I hope Alena can be completely healed. I look forward to more of this story. pms

JBern replied:

One of the things I strive to bring to this fantasy story is realism and a full recovery from such heinous injuries will take a long time.   Thanks for following along.~Jim

Renzo7 posted a comment on Friday 12th December 2008 10:52am

As always, an excellent work on this chapter. Very funny, entertaining and well written.

I hope you keep up the excellent work and update soon.

JBern replied:

Glad you liked it.   More coming soon.~Jim

Bedrup posted a comment on Friday 12th December 2008 10:51am

Delighted.

JBern replied:

Thanks for this and all previous reviews.~Jim

sleep when your dead posted a comment on Friday 12th December 2008 10:37am

loved this chap can't wait for the next chapter

JBern replied:

It'll be a few weeks.   I'm working on TML chapter 11 now.~JIm

joeBob posted a comment on Friday 12th December 2008 10:24am

Another excellent chapter, thank you!

The HJ interaction, with everybody is especially well done. Nice break from the hat; I assume that it will be fully rested and recharged for next time? ;-)

~~~
Why would they "walk" patient beds around. This would be jarring and uncomfortable, and dangerous, for the patient. They would use silky smooth levitation.

"It should be a crime to cover any song by the Rolling Stones song other than Ruby Tuesday"
-- That *might* have been true *before* they released "Emotional Rescue"; it definitely isn't true after! ;-)

JBern replied:

Everyone is a critic, indeed.   Someone already chided me for not using the more appropriate "Play With Fire".

With her immobilized, the walking bed wasn't seen as a problem, but you're right.   Levitation would have been better.

Tora58 posted a comment on Friday 12th December 2008 9:58am

Good as always, this is probably my favorite piece of in progress fan fic by far...

I feel I should find something wrong with this chapter but, alas, I cannot.

Keep up the good work sir!

JBern replied:

Thanks for the compliment.~Jim

ShadeHawk posted a comment on Friday 12th December 2008 9:29am

I wonder how "Muggle" medicine would fare... perhaps not with burned lungs, but with large burn. Special gel, artificial skin, growing skin grafts... and which of those were present at that time...

BTW. Dykstra reminds me of Dijkstra (Edsger Wybe Dijkstra), famous computer scientist, one of main proponents of structured programming (famous "A Case against the GO TO Statement"). Intentional or accidental?

JBern replied:

I actually pulled Dykstra out of thin air.   Probably Lenny Dykstra - a famous baseball player.  

Magical medicine, in my view, has the edge.

Zicou posted a comment on Friday 12th December 2008 9:06am

waouh ...; that was great, awesome.
Continuuuuuuuuuue!
Z.

JBern replied:

I'll tryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

ernichol posted a comment on Friday 12th December 2008 8:36am

excellent as always. The harry/fleur bit is good. It is going slow and taking its time to develop the right way, but i especially like your dumbledore characterization. He is neither a purely manipulative bastard or a senile grandfather. and you do a great job of keeping him a cooky oddjob.

JBern replied:

I'm glad you approve of this Dumbledore.   He has his failings, but he tries hard.~Jim

Gardengirl posted a comment on Friday 12th December 2008 8:15am

Ab fab, Jim! I loved it. It was brave of you to let one of the champions really be injured. You handled it very nicely.

JBern replied:

Thanks.   I try to keep it as realistic as possible.~Jim

Tabi posted a comment on Friday 12th December 2008 8:07am

Winning by Howling the Rolling Stones. Scaring Lupin out of his wits with long past crimes. Life debt. Ticking of the Minister of Magical France. Finding out just what that one point deduction was for.

All in a days work.

JBern replied:

Glad you liked HJ's day.   He might have a different view of it, but we'll see.   Thanks for the review.~Jim

Paul Beamer posted a comment on Friday 12th December 2008 7:51am

One of your better chapters. I always enjoy your stories, but I cringe at times with some of your writing. I found very little to cringe about in this chapter and was kept enthralled to the end. Keep up the great work!

JBern replied:

Just curious, what do you find cringe worthy about my writing.   Feel free to email me offline.

MOD posted a comment on Friday 12th December 2008 7:48am

Brilliant as always! Please do feel encouraged to continue with story, even with your other pursuits. We, your fans, will gladly support you in your endeavours. (And of course do put up when your new works are published.)

JBern replied:

I certainly will.   Thanks for the review.~Jim

stealacandy posted a comment on Friday 12th December 2008 7:42am

Hello,

I must tell you, this story, which began as a side note, really grew up into something else!

I just love it.


-s.a.c.

JBern replied:

Thanks for saying that.~Jim

Lee Dickie posted a comment on Friday 12th December 2008 7:35am

A very well written chapter with great charactizations.

Well done & thanks.

JBern replied:

Thanks for the compliments.~Jim

steviesteveo1984 posted a comment on Friday 12th December 2008 7:32am

Very interesting - it's a natural evolution after the switching spell on a duellist's arm.

I'm very impressed at this Harry though - balls of steel doesn't begin to cover his suggestion.

I like your idea that healing magic has dark origins because it's a completely opposite view from how the Unforgivables were originally used in medicine. Actually, some of these healing charms were originally utterly despicable. A very nice touch.

JBern replied:

Glad you liked the twist.   In my stories, I try to take a branch of magic and make it more interesting than JKR did.   In this story, I've endeavored to make Transfiguration and Healing far more interesting than they were in cannon.~Jim

hordac85 posted a comment on Friday 12th December 2008 7:20am

Excellent.Keep it up

JBern replied:

Thanks.~Jim

Loopy Dane posted a comment on Friday 12th December 2008 7:11am

awesome.
Thank you for sharing your time and talent with us.

JBern replied:

Thanks.~Jim

olfrik posted a comment on Friday 12th December 2008 7:03am

That was very good, I very much liked the healing scene. I also like the interaction with Dumbledore, he actually gets more and more character here. I'd like to see more of that kind of multifaceted relation. It's hard to find a human, powerful and still cunning Dumbledore between the thousands of indie-Harry stories out there. So to sum it up: thanks for this chapter!
What I want to see in the future: To put HJ in a situation that resembles Dumbledores leadership and decision making situations. A loose/loose situation where he has to take responsibility and people desect his actions afterwards when they didnt have to make the decision in the first place. That may put a heap of reallity on Dumbledores 'right or easy choice' speech. And HJ might learn that he needs people and diplomacy to survive the coming war, not 'only' powerful magic.

JBern replied:

Well you'll have to wait and see what I have in store.~Jim