That was so clever what he did to those three!

Regarding one of the guest reviews below, I think the troll thing makes sense. It could have originally been in the dungeons but was drawn to the smell of Hermione (my headcanon is that she was having her first period, because she's far too sensible to stay in the bathroom all day just because of a stupid boy). Harry changed things enough that she sensibly went to Madam Pomfrey instead and then went about her day. So the troll stayed in the dungeons until the Slytherins got there.

Anyway, this is fun. I don't think Harry is amoral, just more ruthless and cynical. How did he get the potions into Snape, Dumbledore, and Quirrell, though?

I loved this so much. Sure it wasn't "possible " in some sense but whatever it was amazingly written and you made this story interesting and well balanced.

A wonderfully cynical but heartwarming story.

It’s a quick read and highly recommended.

So Hermione wasn't crying in a bathroom on Halloween and the troll (who wasn't in the dungeons in canon) just happened to cross the Slytherin's students... How convenient for your plot !
I'm sorry but I don't see the Harry you describe helping Hermione, you twisted your story because you didn't want your favourite character to die and to compensate you had to throw the troll at the Slytherin for the story to move on and because of that the whole thing feels completely artificial.

That was... different. Actually different, holy meatballs. And no drawing out the story, no cliffhangers and abandoned half-baked ideas. God damn it. I knew there are still people capable of doing so. Thank you.

Way to go Harry! Excellent story. ~ Snake ~~~

Fun story! I like your style of writing, half narrative, half summary. My only critique is that Harry's personality becomes more childlike as he ages. I get where that's coming from his relative safety, so no biggie there. The first part of the story makes more sense if I imagine that he's 14 when he starts Hogwarts though.

Thanks for posting!

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing this with us.

It started interestingly enough but by the point you petrified dumbles, snape and quirrelmort it kinda flopped, you didn't even said how it was done so it was pretty much hard to believe.

Everything else solved itself in a really boring way, I don't even understand the point of that bit about harry learning italian, what was even the point of that?

I liked that Quirrel disposed of Lockhart and Umbridge. I wonder if he did it by putting Lockhart under the Imperius Curse or if he just did it himself with Lockhart's wand?

Also, I'm not sure if Harry lives up to the summary's promise of being cruel and amoral. He's certainly a bit darker, but his reasons of sparing others from Quirrel, Snape and Dumbledore make me doubt how amoral he really is.

The revenge against the Dursleys was very satisfying, though.

Thanks!

'Lily's gift with a wand'

nice story but not really possible, just look at what you do with potions, an potion to force an apparation inside hogwarts no less, a potion to bind a soul wouldnt that make the user immortal? what does it matter if the hart doesnt beat, the soul is still stuck in the body.
biggest fail is that you didnt explain how harry fed those potions all at the same time to dumbledore snape and quirell. all 3 of them are paranoid as fuck, you have to be of you're in their positions

Absolutely a great story. So much better than the original.