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Kathleen posted a comment on Monday 9th June 2008 12:15am for Albus Dumbledore and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

Yay, Family Values has returned!!! And you slide right back into the story without missing a beat. Lovely chapter. I imagine the kids are none too pleased to have their entire family taking over their education after they finally left home? I hope we find out in the next chapter.
Also I can't wait to see Grandmama's potions lessons!
Fester was fantastic with the cannon and I loved the dwarves and the goblins -- especially the food. :)

Roy C posted a comment on Monday 9th June 2008 12:12am for Albus Dumbledore and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

I said this the first time I read through the first chapter....your muse is one seriously twisted puppy...Okay it took a lil bit for your must to get back from Bora Bora(I've found that is where they like to vacation). I am seriously
looking forward to where you are going to go with this fic. I will state one more thing that will hopefully stroke the hell out of your muse's ego and superego, this is and will be THE ONLY SLYTHERIN Harry fic I am reading. Have fun see you next update.

FrequencyQueen posted a comment on Sunday 8th June 2008 10:16pm for Albus Dumbledore and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

Wonderful story! The Addams are just as creepy as canon, and Harry comes across as a younger Gomez, without the goth.

JP posted a comment on Sunday 8th June 2008 9:23pm for Albus Dumbledore and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

Awesome. Loved the Dumbledore angst and his time turner abuse, as well as the House Elf Wars - classic. Fester with cannon was superb too.

The quiestion is, what is Cousin It going to be doing?

The Wombat

Ishtar replied:

Cousin Itt has married a Sasquatch and they are house sitting for the Addamses back in New Jersey.   Somebody has to maintain that huge house, after all!

Evan Mayerle posted a comment on Sunday 8th June 2008 7:34pm for Albus Dumbledore and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

Oh, gotta admit that I love Gomez's approach for getting Harry out of the doldrums; it's unorthodox, but it worked and that's the important thing ("If it's stupid and it works, it ain't stupid!").

Patches posted a comment on Sunday 8th June 2008 5:15pm for Albus Dumbledore and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

Wow! What a wonderful week of mayhem and destruction to agravate Dumbledore. Grandmama Addams was the frosting on the cake! I love it. I also love Gomez ways of dealing with Harry's problems. That was really good. I look forward to more of your story. Thanks for writing. pms

IamNotawriter posted a comment on Sunday 8th June 2008 1:54pm for Albus Dumbledore and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

JOY, OH JOY, OH FRABJOUS DAY SHE'S BACK!

Thank You!

Jamie46 posted a comment on Sunday 8th June 2008 12:36pm for Albus Dumbledore and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

YAYYYYYYYYYY FOR AN UPDATE!!!!!!! :) hehehehe. So excited to see an update. I won't say "finally" b/c I understand about muses. But I'm just so happy to see an update to this awesome, awesome story. Thanks so much! :-D

raquelalexandra posted a comment on Sunday 8th June 2008 12:14pm for Albus Dumbledore and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

This has been a wonderful story so far. I am enthralled with it and cannot wait for new chapters. thank you very much for this fresh look at Harry Potter.

Fyrwulf posted a comment on Sunday 8th June 2008 12:11pm for Albus Dumbledore and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

Huzzah! I love this story and I love that it's back on track.

Hannah3 posted a comment on Sunday 8th June 2008 11:23am for Albus Dumbledore and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

So, I saw the title of the chapter, and that nearly made me utter week. (Sorry, my boyfriend did make my week already.)

Kortir posted a comment on Sunday 8th June 2008 10:05am for Albus Dumbledore and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

Despite having never cared much for the Addams Family as a TV series, I really am enjoying this fic- and I would imagine that right there should be an appropriate measure of how good it is. So... very nice, looking forward to more in the future!

Bobboky posted a comment on Sunday 8th June 2008 9:59am for Albus Dumbledore and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

so very excellent i reread it again... and again

Darryn posted a comment on Sunday 8th June 2008 9:30am for Albus Dumbledore and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

Just though I'd say I'm very much enjoying reading this story, I like your portrayal of the Addams' especially.
Thanks

Jujuberry posted a comment on Sunday 8th June 2008 9:20am for Albus Dumbledore and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

Yay, another chapter of family values!!! I loved it (and what a great chapter title too!).

Thanks so much for sharing. I can't wait to see where this goes next :)

0x517A5D posted a comment on Sunday 8th June 2008 7:55am for Albus Dumbledore and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

A great chapter. I giggled or cackled at least four times while reading it, and I seldom laugh out loud at any fiction, pro or fan.

"interrogating the pomegranate." "Plagues it is, then." "it’s like falling off a broom." "Maybe part of several house elves." Classic, simply classic.

The break seems to have recharged your batteries, as I found this chapter much better than the last few. I was very glad to see the chapter show up, proving that the fic is not abandoned. Moar PLZ!!1!

Gomez, and indeed the entire Family, seem too able to effortlessly defeat, turn aside, or avoid any conflict. It strikes me that this is somewhat out-of-character -- in the show, they win their battles, but not without some effort. And they can't use their eccentricities as they do in the show, because the wizarding world is at least as eccentric as the Family. (In different directions, to be sure.)

Dumbledore seems too passive -- my impression of him is that he would be reacting to these changes in his life, probably in odd ways, rather than just bemoaning them.

Harry's worry: while I would consider it in-character for canon HP, it seems to me that this Harry should be more hard-headed and clear-minded about a problem like partial possession.

Technical C&C: While the individual scenes ranged from good to brilliant, the whole didn't gel completely. I think you're following too many plot threads, and might want to move some of them to the back burner. Perhaps have two primary actor-threads that are in every chapter, plus a guest-thread or two chosen from the B-list.

On the other hand, I do see that you're throwing everything you can at Dumbledore that will make this week any more "very bad." So this observation may not hold in the future.

I didn't get the Sesame Street disclaimer. After the fact, I see it must have been the "duckie" song. I wasn't familiar with it.

Incidentally, nice pen name. My sister's real name is Istar, without the h.

Now I feel the urge to read the whole fic again, start to finish. (And I'm already in the middle of rereading Black Heir, A Black Comedy, Vox Corporis, and Blessed Do Over. Thank goodness it's a weekend.)

Ishtar replied:

The Family took the Wizarding World by surprise - even Dumbledore, who should have known better.   They weren't prepared for someone kicking over their complacent little apple-cart.   Once they figure out what's happening, the wizards will fight back.   I do have to go back and rewatch the shows, but it did seem to me that in most of their dealings with the outside world they went serenely on doing their own thing and the OW generally crumpled before the gentle assault; they had more problems in dealing with their own sort - like trying to talk Fester into not joining the Peace Corps.

Essentially the first sequence was following Dumbledore, showing how he is just being bombarded with things from left field.   He will eventually start fighting back - he's already resolved the house-elf problem, and his legal difficulties will also be dealt with shortly.

As for Harry, I am having a little trouble finding his "voice" for this fic.   He doesn't seem to be Addams-ish enough.   But I'm hoping that will work out soon.

The duckie song comes from Sesame Street, and was performed, among others, by Paul Simon, one of my favorite musicians.   In a concert of his that I attended some years ago, he told a story about how his personal assistant brought her six-year-old son to a rehearsal, and introduced them.   "This is Mr. Simon, who plays 'Put Down the Duckie'," she said.   The kid said, with one of those world-weary sighs befitting a much older person, "That song has seen me through so many bad times."   Once Gomez started singing, I knew I just had to use the line.

noylj posted a comment on Sunday 8th June 2008 7:37am for Albus Dumbledore and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

Need more Lurch. Thanks for getting him involved. Why does Minnie complain about the good stuff the house elves were doing? What a meddlesome fussbudget anal-retentive witch. Sounds like she would approve of Morticia cutting off the flowers and keeping the thorny stems.

Ishtar replied:

Thank you.   You will be happy to know that there will be lots more Lurch - including a heroic role - in the future.   Minerva wasn't really complaining about the food and the table settings, but she did find the snow sculptures to be over the top and didn't want to know what was going to happen next.  

Greg Johnson posted a comment on Sunday 8th June 2008 6:14am for Albus Dumbledore and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

Great Chapter. Can't wait for the next one. Keep up the good work.

AnnaTigg posted a comment on Sunday 8th June 2008 5:07am for Albus Dumbledore and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

Hurrah, you updated, I'm so happy! Another great chapter, I hope the muse sticks around so you can keep producing more...

Mary Morley posted a comment on Sunday 8th June 2008 4:59am for Albus Dumbledore and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

This was a lovely surprise!