Reviews for My Gilded Life
Eragon135790 chapter 6 . 1h
great ff but the memory editing was a bit too far reaching for my taste had he only made the abuse-memories less present he could have achieved something similiar. also will harry learn of the memory editing in the future?
Eragon135790 chapter 1 . 2h
at first i was a bit skeptic about the ff(casue many lockhard-SI ff go in some way wrong) but it seams to become a really great ff.
1 love m4gic chapter 7 . 23h
Herbal tea is okay, is it not? I mean, it is allowed in the Mormon scripture i think...

Oh, and shouldn't there be a limit to integrating memories?! I mean, this is too easy to just get a memory and then, boom, it is yours after some practice...even if it is a compatible one... It should have a negative side effect, otherwise everyone would use it, and do not come with the "magical people are stupid" excuse please!
1 love m4gic chapter 1 . 7/24
I mean, killing the little pig was unnecessary, he could have just made him survive if barely...he is just a kid who followed his parents' psychotic ways, not fully without sin but not so much that he deserved death.

Still, other than this, the story is great so far!
Guest chapter 6 . 7/24
So the man who saw brainwashing as perfectly acceptable turn out to be a religious bigot ? Why am I not surprise ?
Lord Mortensen chapter 14 . 6/7
Awesome! thanks for writing this story!
Haydoge chapter 1 . 6/4
"Writing self inserts is one of my strengthsAuthor
Sadly use of a grammer checking software is not.
Blackbelt219 chapter 1 . 5/28
I don't know about killing the Dursleys, but I don't mind it much
BlackVael chapter 14 . 5/17
Weird, felt rushed, but a not bad pretty good fic.
RevDorothyL chapter 14 . 4/29
A truly WILD RIDE! But very satisfying and enjoyable, because of the occasional craziness as well as in spite of it. :)
deathnoteno1fan-codegeasslover chapter 9 . 4/16
I laughed so hard when it turned out the Adams are a real family in this world but I was on verg of tears from the spider bit(i really was).
Felhound chapter 3 . 3/31
Shame the SI subscribes to a religious system. Those things cause people to commit greater evil than most sociopaths on a daily basis.
Felhound chapter 1 . 3/31
Dudley’s a selfish git, but he’s still a kid. Why didn’t SI!Lockhard leave him out of this?
stevem1 chapter 14 . 3/4
This is well written from a grammar and spelling standpoint.

The story is somewhat disturbing. The main character is an author who falls into the body of Gilderoy Lockhart. He acquires his skills and then uses his ability with memory charms goes to acquire others. He alters the memories of dozens, and therefore their personalities, to lesson the trauma of abuse, etc. He acquires dozen of wives. He murders dozens (most of whom probably deserved it).

The main character is clearly going insane as the story progresses. It ends with him defeating Dumbledore.

I’m not sure I can recommend it. It is disturbing so your mileage will vary.
Dezcon chapter 14 . 2/25
I really liked the story at the start but I've kind of come to dislike it by the end of chapter 14 because of the frequent religious talks about scripture and so on, sorry i guess ?

Most common cliches i have seen in other fanfictions have been avoided, like the Goblins who if you treated them with respect they would naturally become your allies or whatever.
In my mind that just seems kind of silly i suppose, i mean every individual is different, so well done author on avoiding such cliches :).

Well maybe you didn't avoid one of them i guess... And this is something i've seen being done in a lot of fanfiction, i believe i once read a fanfiction that involved over 4 or 5 different crossovers and it eventually ended up being so confusing in the end that i just dropped it because it didn't feel like i was reading for example a Harry Potter fanfiction anymore but rather something else. It hasn't gotten that bad in this story, yet.
In this fanfiction it's the Adams family, they appear towards the end of the story around maybe chapter 11 or 12, i don't remember exactly and also Slayers i believe it was called ? Although to be fair the Slayers part is just one spell from that anime.

Personally i don't like it when authors introduce new crossovers into the story after a couple of chapters. It gives me the impression that you ran out of ideas and such incorporated these new elements in order to get the story moving again somewhere. At the same time i could be completely wrong and you had always intended to make a crossover with the Adams family and Slayer however i would liked to have known that before i started reading your fanficton. Now, say if you had written that the main character dealt with all the wizarding problems, Dumbledore, Voldemort etc and then towards the very end of the story found a way to travel to a different world or something and he ended up going to the Slayers Universe now that would have been a perfect way to end the story and set it up for a sequel. Even if you were never going to write the sequel it would still be there if you someday decided that you wanted to write it.

I liked the ending, sure you could write another chapter showing everyone's reaction but i think i enjoyed it more where you left it at. It allows me as the reader to imagine what happens after chapter 14.

And lastly, i personally was not a fan of him being religious. But i am biased when it comes to that because of my own experience with religion and that's as far as i am comfortable saying. I think if you made the character someone who was a monk before and basically was just a lot more spiritual with meditation and all that jazz i might have liked it more but then again i am biased when it comes to this topic.

To the readers:
Other than my complaints above the story is well written. Easy to read and i would highly recommend it if you can look past all my previous complaints.

TLDR; Story is well written(compared to the usual fanfiction on this site), sadly has two slight crossovers from two other stories(movies & Anime?) towards chapters 10-14 which i personally did not appreciate suddenly appearing in the middle of the story almost out of nowhere(or at least that's how i felt the crossovers were being introduced into your fanfiction). Avoids usual cliches which almost every other Harry potter fanfiction has. Main character is religious and talks about scriptures and god often. If you can look past that then i highly recommend reading this Fanfiction!
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