Fascinating story. Thanks so much

I think Sensei's beliefs about Dark Magic are bit simplistic. Yeah, I get that he is talking to kids now- but still, these are very smart kids. No need to dumb down the info to the point that it is wrong. Saying Dark Magic has no other uses except for doing evil just isn't the case. We see that in canon when Snape uses Avada Kedavra to kill Albus painlessly so that Albus isn't tortured by the other Death Eaters present and Draco doesn't harm his soul carrying out his orders. For Snape, the use of AK meant furthering the Light's war effort and putting a comrade and mentor painlessly out of his suffering. He has mastered his mind, so of course he can call on negative or positive emotions at will to power whatever spells he needs to cast. For Draco, it would have been a soul-fracturing murder serving a madman that he knows will kill his family if he failed. Maybe Cruciatus could be used in mediwizardry in conjunction with containment or warding to selectively damage only the nerves reporting continuous pain signals at the site of an old injury. If the patient were out cold at the time they wouldn't feel the pain of the curse itself. Experiencing some after-shocks for a few days might be well worth it if the patient could be rid of constant back pain for the rest of their life. Imperius could be used to cause a toddler who found a loaded Muggle gun to put down the weapon safely instead of playfully shooting it at a sibling. Avada Kedavra could be used to painlessly slaughter animals for meat or put down infirm pets or to end the suffering of the terminally ill wizards or even injured allies trapped behind enemy lines who would face torture for months if not years for whatever information they might have. Isn't it all really more about a caster's intent than about the spell itself? If a person casts a light magic dancing or tickle spell trying to make someone fall to their death off a cliff is that not just as evil? I get that some dark spells require negative emotions to cast and can exact a personal cost on the caster. A caster would have to weigh the benefits vs the costs- but isn't channeling our inner darkness- our fear, anger, etc into something positive what all good people strive to do? We all have darkness within us. The best people in the world make sure that their negative energy gets expended only in positive ways. Muggles can do that too through art, exercise, or dedication to a worthwhile cause.

Why would he not just come out and say, "You have magic". why all this run around? why only talk to them for a few minutes? why not teach them everything he can 24/7 to get them ready? they should be learning occlumancy and stuff earl on.

I really enjoyed this story. I love alternative school stories and yours is very creative. Viva la Revolution indeed. I love the input of the Muggles and MI-5. I love that they revived the Longbottoms. I love Harry and Hermione’s innocent relationship.

Sorry 0 not an NHS card either - free, so no need (then) to prove who you are before being treated.

I still feel as if this 4 years in a month thing is ridiculous. Itd ruin the point of really any education system. Magical or not. Sure they don't have the magical power and have a bunch of useless knowledge, but that's part of why it's so dumb. They learn everything but it's completely utterly useless because they learned it when they weren't magically developed enough to use it. It should be far more time delayed to actually be useful realistically.

God that it such a horrid name.. Clarice... eehheww... why couldn't you stick with a reasonable and well established flower name? Its far more likely to be something that Lily would have used. Not something that was left in the 50s for good reason.

Why trust Sophie so soon and spill somebody els

You explain the same story over and OVER again. It is a good story, just VERY redundant.

Your Lord Black got some of his information wrong.

When the Spartans met the Thebans at Leuctra THEY had the numerical superiority. The numbers estimated today, according to the wikipedia article about the Battle of Leuctra, are 6,000 - 7,000 hoplites for the Thebans and 10,000 - 11,000 hoplites for Sparta, with a cavalry superiority for Thebes of 1,500 vs. 1,000. However the battle was, as was usual during that time, fought and won by the hoplites.

The Theban general Epameinondas introduced a new infantry tactic, the Oblique Formation, where the elite troops were placed on the LEFT flank instead of the right one, and a lot deeper than usual, thereby defeating the Spartan elite on THEIR right flank. Which won the battle for Thebes, and made Epameinondas' name immortal in military tacticians' circles.

The helot revolts after Leuctra, on the other hand, were indeed the death knell for Spartan importance in Greece.

Until Philip II and his son Alexander made any such distinctions moot about forty years later...

I'm not a historian, I just like historic computer games, and Leuctra rang a bell for me. Play the right games and you can learn about such things.

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And it's at this point that I begin silently weeping over how the sequel to this outstanding tale isn't complete and in all likelihood is abandoned. So very sad.

My only complaint about this section is that there was an awful lot of standing-around-talking during what was supposed to have been a dire emergency.

Act now; chat later.

I was not expecting to be so emotional I love the fact that I’m still got 300,000 words in the story you are a very good author

Goddamn it, you had me until clarice. I personally can’t stand major OCs in fics sorry