James, that was harsh. they were his parents for YEARS, you have changes in less than week, and they expect him to adjust that quickly. This happens in the real world, too.
I remember I few months ago, on the news, there was a couple that adopted a little girl at birth, and when she was two, her biological father came out and claimed that he had been deployed for the last two years and that he wanted her back.
That was horrible. I cried when I watched that news story.
What's worse is that he won the court case.
I could understand If he wanted visitation rights, but that went to far. I cried during this and that news story.
It's so sad that so many adults think they know what's best for us kids, because so many of them have no idea what their descisions do to us.
Sorry for the depressing review.
Cloverleaf :'(

Oh, my god! Im crying right now... Why social services?!

I cried!

waaaaaaaaaaaaa! so sad. update please!

Poor little Harry! This is a really good story. I really like your version of Bella. Please update soon!

There's a song by Billy Gilman called 'Oklahoma'. That song reminds me of this story. I wish you'd add more to it. Like Harry visiting the Weasleys as he grew up and falling in love with Ginny.

Over-all...Loved this story.

*sad face with tears*

Poor Harry. Please update SOON!

...I need that sequel. You leave a cliffie for another chapter, not another story! I can't wait till you can start that!Honestly, I didn't like the ending. I never thought I'd see a day when I didn't want a Harry/James dynamic, but I don't. I like the whole Weasly family/Harry going on. I'd rather they come to some totally awesome compromise. Anyways, my ranting of your awesome fic aside, thanks for a compelling read and I really hope you can get to the sequel soon. :D

More Please, it's brilliant! XD

omg! this story reminds me of the song Oklahoma by . . oh what that kids name? he was like 12 when he started singing! GAH!

James marrying Bellatrix seems bizarre if you're sticking to an even somewhat canon characterization of her. A government child protective agency would not take seven years to find a child either. Also, I'm deeply disturbed by James telling Harry he's not allowed to refer to Molly and Arthur as Mom and Dad. They were his mom and dad in everything but blood, and for James to try to undermine that and make Harry feel, god forbid, ashamed of that is absolutely outrageous and foreshadows a very disturbing type of emotional abuse.

Hi! I just found your story and although I liked it, it was very heart-breaking. There were some things though that I didn't understand and left me questioning parts of it. I apologize in advance if you think my review comes out sounding negative. It is not my intent to slam you down as writer. If it makes you feel better, I am a horrible writer and whenever I've tried to write something, it ends up terrible. Also, keep in mind that this is just the opinion of some random reviewer who you don't know and you don't have to listen to if you don't bother to.

I really don't get why you had to bring James in to the picture. You had a real opportunity to showcase the anger/frustration/angst when Harry first went with the Weasleys, but then you did a two year time-skip to make everything magically better overnight. It's a little awkward/mean to be reading one moment about an abused Harry and then the next chapter see how adjusted he is and loved, and then take that all away again. You should slow down some in your character/plot development because everything is really rushed and jumping everywhere.

I see that the category is a Harry/James, but I completely forgot about James while reading the beginning chapters because I was just focused on hoping that Harry's emotional scars would be healed when he got with the Weasleys. And then, you brought in Bellatrix as the wife? Bellatrix has some pretty evil connotations because of who she was in canon, so, to me, it's like you're implying that she will be the evil-step-mom and that you've just sent Harry off to be abused again and you've "ended" the story on a pretty mean cliffhanger. If that's not the case, I would think a story with a Harry/James subgenre would be focusing on their relationship and not with some random mother mucking up the story as well. There's also no sense to writing a "sequel" either because I didn't get a sense of a major resolution here. It seems like your major conflict/climax was that Harry finally learned about love from a good family, but then he has to go and leave that behind and live with his random guy claiming to be his dad. There was no resolution beyond the fact that Harry arrived there and had a little spat.

Also, with your depictions of James, from the fact that he left Lily although he was "in love" with her after a month and was planning to propose, and then later married Bella after a couple of years, it doesn't exactly paint him in the most sympathetic of lights. It makes him look superficial, cowardly, insecure, and weak of heart. Yes, you said that he traveled and then matured during his travels, but that's not going to make him look any better to readers. Actions are what counts, and the only actions we see is that he's taking his son away from a loving family because his current wife is barren and can't give him any kids.

Also, I think you have a pretty big plot hole in the sense that it took the Child agency 7 years to find James. Maybe he was traveling or something, but the fact that a government agency couldn't find an individual who is not purposely hiding from them doesn't exactly make sense. It makes them look pretty incompetent. Also, Nymphadora's multiple placement mistakes over 5 years for Harry really doesn't make her look like she's the most capable at the job.

Well, I'm sorry again if this turned out sounding more negative than I originally planned. I did like the story, but these things are what prevented me from loving the story. Take care! Respectfully, Mezzer

So I was a bit worried at the beginning of the chapter but it redeemed itself. You have such a great writing style, especially for fanfiction. Most writers are not nearly this good.

I really hope to see you continue this story as I really want to know what happens. If anything I think it should just continue from here without any gaps. There are so many things the family has to go through and I see so many writers leave month long gaps (in writing time) and just start things up with everything being ok.

Please don't do that, it is so overdone and there are so many more things you could do with just continuing it from here.

Of course it is your fic and as I have said you are an amazing writer so either way I will want to see what you decide to do. :)

So this was what I was worried about... Harry being more accepting then is really believable. But so far this fic has been written very well and I do think it has a lot of potential. The next few chapters will tell though.

I have to admit that I keep glancing at the chapter bar hoping for another one so I can keep reading. :)

I have to say that at first I wasn't sure if I was going to like this fic. However, now I am so glad I came across it! It is written wonderfully and is so touching!

My only concern is that Harry might "accept" his new situation to fast for it to be believable. He's been thrown around his whole life and after finally finding a stable home he's yanked up and taken away again.

I'll just have to continue reading to find out.