Wow - quite a powerful beginning. Are you going to come back and make a novelette of it?

OMG I LOVE THIS!? I THINK I LOVE THIS MORE THAN BUILDING BRIDGES! HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? I JUST ADORE THE HARRY/DUDLEY RELATIONSHIP SO MUCH! REMINDS ME A BIT OF CHAR PERHAPS? AND EVEN LOVED MARGE (your only mistake was her name!) AND HER FINDING HAPPINESS FROM HARRY BEING CHEEKY! I HOPE WE SEE MORE OF THEM. AND I JUST LOOOOOOVE TOM RIDDLE AND HOW YOU DESCRIBED HIM WISHING HE COULD FEEL AND AGH SOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOD. I'm only sad that it's probably not going to be a redemption for Voldemort in either of your stories hahaha.

I so hope you continue this! Man the Dursley stuff, so good.

This was a fascinating fanfic. It says it’s completed but it abruptly ended. Will it be continued? It was very good though!

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Interesting premise.

It’s aunt Marge, not aunt Madge.

If Dumbledore had stayed with Grindelwald: he never become a teacher or headmaster, and some other teacher who was actually competent at dealing with abused children - an actual compassionate human being - introduced poor Tom to the wizarding world… Dumbledore and Grindelwald became worse than Voldemort ever was… And Tom was that world’s Harry Potter! Ha! I could totally see that!

i'd read more of this. it's interesting and different, and there's a lot going on. i'd even be willing to beta, if you've written/want to write more.

This was a completely fascinating start off chapter.

I adore Building Bridges, but I also get how it can be when you write yourself into a dead end. It's hard to know what to change sometimes. I'd love to help you get the ball rolling if you'd like that, but in the mean time, best wishes!

I love this story. I look forward to see the rest of the story.

I really hope you continue this :) I loved it!

Hello! This is the first time that I've visited FFNet again after so many years, and it was worth it! I really, really love how you've written this story, and I'm saying this after have only read the first chapter. God, I really love Harry's bonding session with Dudley. Thank you for giving us that. Now they could be proper brothers. Also thank you for giving Harry more tidbits about his parents' lives. He really needs that. Thank you. I'm such a sucker for Harry having family time. Thank you thank you thank you.
Now I'm off to go read the next chapters.
I wish you all the best and I hope that you'll continue to love writing!

WOW. WOW. WOW
You really have to continue this. I loved it. It is very interesting but I hope that Evil Dumbledore isn't paired with Grindelwald or anyone. I think he would be much stronger if he is alone. This way, he will have no weakness.

I love your writing and how you portray the characters. The conversation between Harry and Snape was very interesting.

I'm really sad that you didn't update "Building Bridges". I really love it and I can't see any "weakness" at all. I think it is perfect. Please, please, please continue.

I can't wait for the rest of this story. I hope you continue it.

-Jolene

WOW. Great job. Very well-written as usual. Loved it. Please ,please continue.

Huh, how very interesting. So we have a different Tom Riddle here unless I miss my guess. I was re-reading Building Bridges, again, when I thought I'd pop by your profile to see if by some off chance there was any news about Building Bridges when I saw this.

A bit out of order, but the conversation between Harry, and Severus was both interesting, and amusing in the extreme.

If you don't mind telling me, what weaknesses do you find you have built into Building Bridges?