Reviews for Mistakes and Second Chances
FrozenArpeggio chapter 10 . 7/23
Im kinda upset i didn’t find this sooner, i may be really early in it still but i’m enjoying every second of catching up.
ChiDead chapter 55 . 7/18
That was a fun read .
Cortax chapter 55 . 7/15
The beginning of the story was fairly rough but the last 10ish chapters were fantastic and the ending was nice in a “life sucks move on” type of way.
keybladedude chapter 55 . 7/14
This was one hell of a wild ride. One that I couldn't get off of even if I tried (I did try, btw. Other storied updated in the time it took me to read this). This was an unexpectedly excellent adventure that you took me on and I'm sure this tale will be one of my favorites on this website for a long time to come. Thank you for writing this.
Cortax chapter 20 . 7/13
Does Hermione have the innate ability to read books almost instantly? Really...?
Cortax chapter 12 . 7/12
It feels like this is turning into a pity-fic. The rape scene felt like a boring shock factor rather than an integral part of the story and this resolution was awful. Why kill Lockheart? Would it not have been better for Helene to expose him for being a rapist and fraud? Where's that Slytherin cunning that she talked about using? I like the story but this is beyond frustrating.
Cortax chapter 11 . 7/12
Alright... but why include this at all?
GoPoe chapter 55 . 7/4
The last chapter and the Epilogue are probably my favourite chapters which is rare since I usually hate endings.
GoPoe chapter 11 . 7/3
I hate how a large majority of Fem!Harry fics always include rape or attempted rape. It's disgusting and for the life of me can't see a reason for it to be included most of the time. I'll give this a few more chapters because everything before this was pretty good. Though I'm still disappointed she had to be raped.
dylansandy1993 chapter 55 . 6/30
i really liked this story. I did see the ending coming miles away (12 chapters actually) however, it was really fun to read!

I totally recommend this story! It's worth reading in so many ways. Emotionally, it's a roller coaster, decisions made that I cannot help but find both great and terrible. I sincerely wish that certain events didn't occur in the manner they did, however, actually including Hallows and possible effects has never felt so believable.

Personally, I feel that the personal relationships felt rather flat and less than believable until chapter thirty, however, this is as much an artistic decision as a fault in this work. By making certain relationships feel less or more, others stand out in comparison.

I am reading the Bloodborne/Harry Potter crossover currently, while much better than this story in some ways, the personal philosophical differences between that story's Potter and myself are different, sometimes polar opposites. Just like this story. While I can't see myself agreeing or doing similar actions, I can enjoy the story even more for giving me a believable character to read about. In stead of being someone I can see myself as.

Anime excels at the latter, with bland and 1 dimensional characters that anyone can see themselves in. This authors stories have dynamic and fascinating characters that are their own unique people, something that makes reading these stories both more and less... Since people don't always enjoy reading stories with these types of characters. After all, anime has a massively loyal audience
dylansandy1993 chapter 18 . 6/29
i have to comment. I enjoy this story. There are a lot of twists and turns that keep the story feeling unique even in such a saturated genre of fanfiction.

However, ways that the main character suffered so far frighten me.

Specifically what occurs in year two.

Realistically, the situation and the sheer terror of the single spell that did what it did, why is that not showing up in the wards? Or being observed by any of the portraits/house elves, which makes the situation untenable in my mind. Though that might be mostly my sheer disgust at this situation that was written...
LostUmbrella chapter 8 . 6/28
The story thus far is nice, the clichés are there but aren't too bad or unexplained.
This chapter though has some problems: a) the twins mention Helene being Prongs' daughter before she says so, and never actually ask anything about the Marauders before giving her the map, b) Flitwick calls Amelia asking for the manacles before discovering that Pettigrew is actually the traitor, this could make sense but it should be explained otherwise it looks like he's a seer.
That said, story's nice, good job!
Guest chapter 55 . 6/28
One of the best fanfics I’ve read
FireRebel chapter 55 . 6/25
Dang! That was a lot! I’m not sure how I feel about it. But it was incredibly well written, positively enthralling, and creative to the boot. You explored topics I never read in a fic before. You gave characters so much life and personality and weaved a complex story. Complex in content and in concepts of light and dark. Wow! I feel off kilter (is that the phrase?) because I basically was sucked in those last couple chapter. A bit disoriented back in the real world but I wanted to mention that because despite my conflicted feelings of the darkness it was just really really well done. A poetic ending and a well written story.
Ottoline Otter chapter 55 . 6/24
Wow... that was DARK! I honestly wasn’t prepared for that. By the end I couldn’t put it down. You did an amazing job of smoothing the descent into depravity. I was constantly second guessing myself about whether it was really as fucked up as it came across. Surely they’re going to snap out of this right? They’ve hit rock bottom, and are going to reassess how they act moving forward? Ha! No. It was like I was reading a completely different story from when I started. Seeing Hermione again was actually a shock, because I forgot that she was even a character in this story. And it was a shock to realize that I didn’t trust Helene not to just crush her throat if she got on her nerves.

That being said, I’ve wanted to comment one thing from the very beginning, so I’m going to say it. I think you grew out of it by the end, but you had a habit of having all of your characters speak with the same voice. It got kind of grating, especially with the cursing and repetitive phrases to express how totally-not-surprised Helene’s friends were about how evil Dumbledore or the Ministry were. I think you’re probably right that 13 year olds probably curse up a storm away from adult supervision. But they’re also not the people reading your story (I hope!)
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