Jim_xinu posted a comment on Friday 10th November 2006 4:50am for Growing up Addams: Accidental Magic

Wow, they're actually going to give him three strikes? I'm impressed. I figured it would be war after try number two. :-)

I also would have expected the American Magical government to press for DD's resignation as Supreme Mugwump, at least, rather than just settling for a threat. Walking into a Muggle court and Obliviating people when you get caught on your illegal scheme is not the act of a man you want in a position of authority.

Great chapter, thanks for sharing it with us.

Ishtar replied:

Yeah, well I didn't want Dumbledore in Azkaban by the time Harry got to Hogwarts.   Although that would make an interesting twist on the "Prisoner of Azkaban." Hmmm.

philh1985 posted a comment on Friday 10th November 2006 4:37am for Growing up Addams: Accidental Magic

This is such a fun story! I loved Harry's not eating anything he could talk to rule, and I LOVE seeing Dumbuttore getting caught out like that. Don't know what's coming to him after strike three, but I'm looking forward to it. <evil grin> More soon please!

Phil

CamilleF posted a comment on Friday 10th November 2006 4:27am for Growing up Addams: Accidental Magic

I am totally loving this story. Maybe it's because we bought both Addams Family movies for a Halloween treat this year. I agree with you that Harry would have had a blast growing up with the Addams! Dumbledore is an idiot for trying to get him out of there! I loved that they threw a party to celebrate Harry's first accidental magic. So great!

traveller posted a comment on Friday 10th November 2006 4:15am for Growing up Addams: Accidental Magic

I have to confess in being a tad bit disapointed in this chapter. It's not bad, it's just... lacking the Addams touch.

The House and family were deemed 'safe'?
If the Addams Family was anything but, it was safe in the conventional sense.
An Uncle with a thing for explosions, sabers all around the Patriarch's study. Dangerous animals. Large flesh eating plants. A swamp (health risks; we are talking about a governement institution after all).
And all those other wonderfull things.
If you meant it as that it was a fib and the inspectors were to scared to say the truth, you might want to make that more clear.

I hope to see a bit more interaction between the Addamses themselves in the next chapter, as this chapter felt more like a report than dialog. Like I said in my previous review, I'm especially looking forward to some Gomez/Harry father/son interaction.

Further more, I have to admit disapointment in the practice wands the children recieved.
I can't help but liken it to a number of stories out there that have a 'Americans do it better' vibe to it. In these Harry comes to Hogwarts ahead of his classmates both in power and magical knoweledge because the US uses such a better system. It usualy takes any equality between Harry and his peers out of the picture and robs Hogwarts of some of its fascination.
Also, as a non American (Long term commited to an American woman though, so I do have a fondness for the country :p) this always rubs me the wrong way.
The point is, your story doesn't need it. He's an Addams! He will have such an extrodinary childhood anyway, because of all the things so typpically Addams, that Hogwarts wont know what it it.

Hope my rambling made any sense and was considered constructive critisism,

Traveller

Ishtar replied:

The inspectors know about the Addamses and the property.   It's been there for years, after all.   The kids are perfectly safe.   It's outsiders who aren't safe.   The bit with the smoke detectors was more because they "had to report something" than because there was any real threat.

As I said to someone else earlier, Harry's going to get a slight advance in strength and be maybe a year ahead.   Not a major advantage.

Danny1 posted a comment on Friday 10th November 2006 4:12am for Growing up Addams: Accidental Magic

I really like your story. I think dumbelbees meddeling is redirected quite nicely.Hmm Dumbelbee can isist that harry goes to hogwarts because his parents have paid already. But the Adams want the best, the would strike agianst hogwarts the don't offer really good education in my opion. Well the do say Hogie warts is the best. That bodes not well for the rest of the magic world

utamm posted a comment on Friday 10th November 2006 4:08am for Growing up Addams: Accidental Magic

Very Nice! I like the combination showing that 'freakishness' is definately in the eye of the beholder. I like seeing Dumbledore put into his place . . . Strike Two, indeed!

I seem to feel like Harry's upbringing in this story is similar to what Luna's is in cannon and I would expect to see him more like her when he is older. Is that totally off base?

Thanks for sharing a good story.

Ishtar replied:

Harry and the Addams kids are a lot more focused and grounded than Luna is.   If Harry believes in Snorkacks, it's because there's persuasive evidence that they exist.

Howard posted a comment on Friday 10th November 2006 4:06am for Growing up Addams: Accidental Magic

Awesome chapter once again! I really like this story and it keeps getting better and better. I especially like how, even with a harry potter crossover, your keeping the Addamses in character from what i can tell. Keep up the great work!

-HB

Christopher Gilmore posted a comment on Friday 10th November 2006 3:59am for Growing up Addams: Accidental Magic

This is just tremendous fun. I'm looking forward to seeing how things progress.

texasranger_10 posted a comment on Friday 10th November 2006 3:43am for Growing up Addams: Accidental Magic

i love the way you wrote this. it is very well written. at first i didn't want to read it as i didn't really like the addams family but i have to say you have done a wonderful job with it. please continue to surprise me.

Mickey posted a comment on Friday 10th November 2006 3:42am for Growing up Addams: Accidental Magic

Very Nice chapter. I especially liked the description of Albus' ignoring medical advice. This round of Dumbledore vs. Addams was much more belivable than the first one although I'd think I'd some point Dumbledore might have realized the Addams weren't merely muggles. I liked the practice wands but I hope you don't go overboard about American magical practices being rational as opposed to British ones. (Especially since you'll need to have a resonable explanation for Harry going to Hogwarts)

Ishtar replied:

Not overboard.   The Americans believe in starting a little earlier, and keeping in practice (so none of this "not practicing over the summer" stuff).   The basic educational pattern at the major schools, however, derives from Europe.   Since the ultimate point of this story is to get Harry back to England, I'm not doing the heavy U.S. background that I have in JYA.

Ronnie McMains posted a comment on Friday 10th November 2006 3:39am for Growing up Addams: Accidental Magic

I can't wait to see Albus' reaction to an 11-year-old Addams-raised Harry (and Wednesday; I know you're not cruel enough to seperate them) showing up at Hogwarts. It's odd; I'm very much in favor of this 'ship, and the only material I have to base this off of is a ?/W ship that wasn't really Wednesday at all: Jeconais' The Warrior and the Witch. I'm following 3 NaNo stories at the moment; yours, Keith's, and Lora's (which I know at least Keith is following; I read his review). Keep up the good work!

proftlb posted a comment on Friday 10th November 2006 3:14am for Growing up Addams: Accidental Magic

You had me laughing out loud three different times in this chapter:) This is fantastic! Can't wait for the next chapter.

Rebel Goddess posted a comment on Friday 10th November 2006 3:13am for Growing up Addams: Accidental Magic

The evil twin conversation was very funny. I almost feel sorry for Dumbledore. He really shouldn't have done that though. Good chapter. More please. I especially like Harry's multicoloured clothes.

Ishtar replied:

No, he shouldn't have.   He's become obsessed, and obsessions aren't easily let go of.

Beau Wolff posted a comment on Friday 10th November 2006 3:10am for Growing up Addams: Accidental Magic

Love it, love it, LOVE IT.

noahshonor posted a comment on Friday 10th November 2006 3:06am for Growing up Addams: Accidental Magic

Yeaaah!!!
Keep it up

Jake Anderson posted a comment on Friday 10th November 2006 3:05am for Growing up Addams: Accidental Magic

I am loving this fic. I don't know what else to say other than great job.

David Thacker posted a comment on Friday 10th November 2006 3:03am for Growing up Addams: Accidental Magic

What is up with Harry's mode of dress or why s he dressed that way?I must say that when I was yunger and the reruns of the Addams' Family show where on I had a crush on Wednesday.

Ishtar replied:

A. He likes it.   B.   Gomez mixes and matches colors (see the movie) and he's emulating his father figure's style.   C.   Gomez and Morticia believe in letting children make their own decisions about things that don't really matter.   What's important is that he wears a sweater on cold days, not what color it is.   If he cares about what others think, he'll switch.   If he doesn't care, he will continue wearing what he feels like wearing.

Waruiko posted a comment on Friday 10th November 2006 3:02am for Growing up Addams: Accidental Magic

Three words... Pugsley and Luna

Ishtar replied:

Pugsley and Hermione, maybe.  

Ken Warner posted a comment on Friday 10th November 2006 2:55am for Growing up Addams: Accidental Magic

I had to froward the entire 1st section to the school board of the charter school my girls attend, as an example of the way I think teaching should be.
Thanks for the excellent and cogent writing - a fabulous chapter in a great story - so far olny fidelius has been as gripping to me.
warm regards

Ishtar replied:

I had to froward the entire 1st section to the school board of the charter school my girls attend, as an example of the way I think teaching should be.

Wow.   That's a compliment and a half!   Thank you!

I didn't have the benefit of the huge family library and woods in the back yard, but that's pretty much the way my parents let me learn.   Especially the "getting two chapters if we were good" thing.   I was reading on a third grade level when I was four, and the only ones that ever tried to stop me reading anything (paradoxically) were my school library teachers, who had one set of shelves set aside for first-graders, and we were to read only from those shelves.   Never mind that I was already well beyond it.   Second grade liberated me to have at the rest of the library, and I was so relieved!   (I remain convinced that the best way for me to have gotten through school would have been for someone to point me at the library and said, "GO!".   Then when I'd finished that, I'd move on to the middle school library, and so on.)

Gardengirl posted a comment on Friday 10th November 2006 2:49am for Growing up Addams: Accidental Magic

Fabulous! Hilarious! I love it!

Thanks for a great read, and happy NaNo!