Quite interesting to see a non human perspective on life and to see a version of "France" not colored by Bourbon absolutism and the cultural imperialism of L'Academie Francaise. Also, I much liked the use of "Beauxbatonnais".

Gabbie’s POV is chaotic and random and sweet. Now I am more curious about Arte than ever.

This chapter was, I'm afraid, terminally boring. When I said I was looking forward to the Irish featuring heavily I didn't mean in the role of lecturers on Irish mythology.

A great read. Gin is so much deeper than any version of Ginny, that I have seen.

Ch 36. Another fun romp down "How come all children aren't constantly terrified of adults in Harry Potter?" lane. Seriously, though, I did enjoy it.
If you're in the mood for constructive criticism, I'd suggest redoing the Lord Black side-flash as its own scene at the start of the chapter. Show Ginny training and the interactions with Sirius and Theo. Put a point on the double-faced nature of some of Ginny's friends by having her dialog with Sirius about his Lord Black persona.

I'm really into the idea of badass white mages, so every chapter with Cassie is kind of a treat, even when she's only a guest in a chapter about a fledgling badass white mage.

Your figure of a hundred million mages in Europe is not only dramatically different from Rowling's figures but is impossible to support. The 1994 population of Europe was 726,529,355 and that would mean that almost one in seven people was a mage! There is no way that the Statute of Secrecy would have been feasible. The actual figure for the Wizarding population of Europe, based on Rowling's claims for the population of the Wizarding UK, is 48,435. Much more manageable. Of course Rowling is to mathematics what Stephen Hawking is to the 400 meter hurdles, and her population sizes are too small to support any kind of functional economy and especially too small to support a Quidditch league, but you've gone massively too far the other way.

I am enjoying this series but I do have a few quibbles.

Are you Irish? You're much better at portraying the UK than any American fic writer I've encountered but there are still some places where you get things about British culture massively wrong. There was one instance, I remember, where Sirius mentions having to have tea with lemon because the cream had gone off. NOBODY in the UK ever puts cream in their tea! That's an American misconception presumably originating in misunderstanding the concept of 'cream teas'. And you have almost everyone recognising the Tánaiste on sight whereas, in the real world, I doubt if one in a thousand people in England would even recognise the Taoiseach. And I can't see any wizards (other than, perhaps, Crouch and Fudge) even recognising the UK Prime Minister on sight, never mind the Irish Deputy PM. Dumbledore, who you show recognising the Tánaiste and actually knowing his name, was canonically so ignorant about Muggles that I doubt if he'd have recognised John Major. Or possibly even the Queen.

The only way I can account for it is that you must be Irish yourself (yourselves?) and so integrated into your own system that you don't realise that it really isn't known to the (somewhat insular) English. I'm Manx, but I would never write a story in which the English, either magical or muggle, recognised our Speaker of the House of Keys, or even our First Minister, on sight. Or, indeed, knew who they were, even after being introduced, without a lot of explanation.

The Irish aspect is by far the most interesting part of the story, and I was very disappointed that after the wonderful opening chapter of 'Nothing to do with the Plan', the Irish didn't reappear until half-way through Chapter 3 of 'That was part of the Plan'. Over 170,000 words of much less interesting material, much of it not progressing the story at all, to trudge through. Lyra being an annoying brat, over and over again, gets tiring. I hope Síomha Ní Ailbhe and the Irish Government people turn up again before too much longer!

Also I had thought I was the only person to have come up with the idea of teenage Bellatrix travelling forward in time and I'm a little irritated to realise that you'd beaten me to it by a year.

Thanks for another good chapter. This story continues to hold my interest and I love the worldbuilding.

I was especially amused in this chapter that you started with having Gin say she was learning to fight in a large part because she wanted to be sure no one could ever hurt her again and then concluded by saying twice in the authors notes, "there is always a bigger fish."

Thanks for all your hard work!

Nicholas

"but Angel's primary motivation, much like Lyra's, is to entertain herself." Somehow I think of Discord from My Little Pony that is just like Q from Star Trek and with the same voice actor, all powerful god of chaos but use his powers mainly to entertain himself even if others don't think it's funny

So fake Slytherin/Perenelle, who should have every reason to be supportive of Dumbledore, is now socially cuckholding him in front of everyone by usurping his role as master of the house. Without being the actual person, Salazar Slytherin.

And Angel Black is just a god, full stop.

Right, good luck with your story, I think I'm done here.

So, "wipe this boring little island off the map."

That might be my deal breaker. Power ceilings like that just cause stories to collapse, in my opinion. I don't see why there needs to be yet another all-powerful girl inserted into a world where a bunch of OTHER all powerful girls have been inserted already. It's especially worse when they actually brag about being all powerful, even off the cuff. It's annoying, it destroys story flow, and it marks everyone else in the story as "lesser." Sorry Angel, that's more boring than anything. You can basically apply that whole paternal attitude you talk about mages having toward muggles to the OCs and Canon characters, in that order.

Dearly hoping this is hyperbole. The wise-cracking, ever so much wittier and interesting than any Canon character threshold is at critical mass. I'm this close to cheering for Lyra to fail.

So, once again, I love the character interaction going on in this story.

But there's so many OCs who come across as overwhelmingly more competent/scary than any of the actual Canon characters, it's just pulling my interest a bit. Still not done reading, just sharing my impressions.

It seems like the central conflict of Harry Potter, Voldemort, is basically resolved, which... how does a story live past its conflict? The metamorph headcanon is running rampant at this point, too. It was interesting as an excuse, but now there's just multiple actual immortal metamorphs running around in the story, further pushing out the canon characters. It just comes down to my preference, but I enjoy when OCs strike an even balance with canon, and it doesn't feel very balanced at all, at this point.

I hope de Mort goes full Emperor Palpatine later, is all I'm saying. And if not, hey, that's fine too. It's your story, I'm just getting some enjoyment and sharing my opinions.

Brilliant chapter ! The relationships between the dimensions answer origami were amazingly mind boggling.

Most illuminating.

I love the story, but ch 35 was pretty heavy exposition. Seems the kind of chapter that belongs in a Silmarillion or as a "List of Kings" type appendix.