Really liked this. Good fic.

neat, but I thought there would be more to it. I mean, at least in the U.S. there are tons of resources for people who, for whatever reason, have bad (or no) school records. Community college remedial classes, GED certificate, etc. If she was bright she could take a few years to get her GED, then if she did well at community college she could use those grades to transfer to a university. Simple. So the premise is simply untrue.

Disregarding that though, very well written and a poignant little bio of an overlooked character. Nice

oh wow.

Excellent. Thoughtful. Very good description of the situation of the muggleborn. No place for them in the wizard world, and no easy way to return.

If she never attempted to do anything, even something as obvious and simple as buying books about astronomy than she is blaming (obviously flawed) for her own failures.

Wow, this is really good! Are you, by chance, the Phoenix of Eternity I met (on line) about ten years ago?

Great story. But why not just get a bunch of fake documents made? She wouldn't be the first or the last to have this particular problem, so there are bound to be ways around it available...

Maybe a follow-up story on how this problem can be solved?

This was quite an interesting take on both the Muggle and the Magic World. I'd never thought of the magic world limiting anyone especially in comparison to the muggle world. I never realized that once you took that letter from Hogwarts and decided to join the school, you were also forsaking the world you'd spent your life in. In Harry's case, it came as a positive change so I never gave much thought to how it could be something that binds someone to another world, never to return again.

"And it was eerie, too, how they formed the unmistakable constellation of prison bars." As always, your ending lines are so profound and emphatic that they leave the reader thinking about your story well after it's over.

A splendid take on the life of a Muggleborn in the world of Magic, trapped in a life of her own making. )

Well written. Not many of us think of how Muggle-borns might relate to their old life, or might see that the Muggle life is a lot more civilised than the Wizard one. Look at Azkaban and the Dementors for instance!

Very good.

A wonderfully original look at that aspect of the magical world. Once you've dropped yourself down into the rabbit hole... you can't climb out. And so in gaining so much, you lose so much. I truly think that I, at least, would choose this world over the wizarding one. A slightly strange realisation to come to. But one I am not ashamed to admit. There are so many kinds of dreams that to lay aside those of magic for others of the beautiful intricacies of our world is a more than fair trade. Oh, at times like this I know it is beautiful. Thankyou for reminding me.

So, enough of the weird rambling. I do wonder if there wouldn’t be some way to use magic - like memory or confundus charms - to get around that lack of paperwork and re-enter the mugle world. It would be difficult, especially with the gaps in knowledge one would acquire in their absence, but not impossible. But never mind. It's a brilliant notion to explore.

Interesting. But you know what I found real funny is that if she just talked to one of her ‘muggle’ relatives she could have learned that you can do high school over the internet; therefore been able to experience her dreams.

One thing that gets to me the Ministry of Magic routinely uses memory charms and lie to muggles, surely they have an office that could create the proper identification needed to get into a university.

Also if Sinistra was ‘one of the brightest students in her House, one of the best in the year, actually.’ Why wouldn’t she just go to a university use magic to become a student or enchant her application so it ‘appeared’ that she filled out ‘Name and address of secondary school.’ E.g. notice me not charm.

Very insightful to the problems of joining the muggle word with how isolated the magical world is.

This is perfectly lovely, especially in the way that it points out those truths that are so often ignored in the Harry Potter fandom. (I chuckled, for instance, at the line about the Astronomy Tower not being so perfect for romantic retreats since classes were held almost nightly.) And poor Sinistra, feeling so bitter and resigned because of something she did as a eleven year old...

Very poignant. Well written.

Thanks for sharing it.

Tom A.