tmctflyboy posted a comment on Monday 16th November 2009 6:57pm for Professor TwoBears

i have to say this story is awesome!!. i love history and depth that you go into with the classes and the new school. i really look forward to the next chapter

twilightwanderer posted a comment on Sunday 18th October 2009 2:14pm for Professor TwoBears

Interesting story, I wish you would continue it (ditto for Fidelius). Also, out of curiosity, did you get the idea for Prof TwoBears from Terry Brooks?

silliepaulie posted a comment on Monday 20th July 2009 5:01am for Professor TwoBears

this is a great story hope to see more soon.

Sarah B posted a comment on Saturday 25th April 2009 1:53am for Professor TwoBears

Wow, I've just finished reading this for the first time and it's great.

The characterisations are really good and I enjoy the way the characters interact. I've read other stories where Harry goes to another school but this is a great way of doing it so that he gets exposed to many different traditions and ways of doing magic. I also like the fact that because it's an exchange program organised by Dumbledore he's still in contact with everyone at home and they get to deal with new people as well.

I hope you decide to continue it at some point as I'd like to know what happens.

Franavu posted a comment on Tuesday 24th March 2009 5:21am for Professor TwoBears

I love the story, hope it isn't abandoned.

Kelly Hilliard posted a comment on Sunday 21st December 2008 6:14pm for Professor TwoBears

I've always liked stories which Harry goes somewhere else for schooling. This is a great story, better yet it has a fresh approach in this genre. I can't wait till the next chapter.

miahtech posted a comment on Sunday 14th December 2008 12:37pm for Professor TwoBears

Love this one too. Look forward to more sometime.

bratling posted a comment on Saturday 8th November 2008 1:54am for Professor TwoBears

Has this been abandoned? It's one of my favorites...

Carolyn Jinn posted a comment on Wednesday 5th November 2008 5:56pm for Professor TwoBears

This story so far has alot of different storylines that tend to be interwoven. It has the makings of a great story.

Unfortunately, since it has been THREE YEARS since your last update, I am starting to wonder if you will ever get to finish it.

Please consider finishing this story( and your other ones you have started).

I, for one, can't wait for the rest of the story.

Anansii posted a comment on Sunday 2nd November 2008 1:24pm for Professor TwoBears

Is there any chance this will be continued someday? I suppose after 3 years the chance is remote, but I'd REALLY like to read the rest of it.

Princess Fictoria posted a comment on Monday 25th August 2008 7:59am for Professor TwoBears

I am very saddened to see how long it has been since you have been inspired to continue this remarkable story. The way you have interwoven different aspects of the magical and mundane worlds is awesome to read. You have created a world that is fascinating and fun to read. I eagerly look forward to learning just how Harry does on his vision quest as well as how his research into how to fulfill his destiny goes.

Your characters are true to life and believable. I very much like Two Bears and think that he will be a very good mentor for our young warrior chief.

Please search for your muse and add more to this story. I would send you cookies if it would help?

Dragon63 posted a comment on Friday 8th August 2008 7:40pm for Professor TwoBears

Darn, there doesn't seem to be any way to edit or change a review once submitted... meant to add in a guess that the green-haired girl in the exchange program is part Dryad, similarly to Fleur being part Veela. Don't remember if she sorted into the Bear Clan (healers) or not, but IMHO that would be a good fit for a part-Dryad with the whole Earth-Mage/Herbology thing going on.

Ishtar replied:

Good guess, but she's not a dryad.   What she is, is the result of a wish gone wrong.   Are you familiar with the Hawaiian caves that are sacred to Pele, where if you do a certain ritual and request a child, you'll concieve?  (I knew a couple who did this, and then weren't sure they'd done it right the first time so they recited the prayer again - you guessed it,  they had twins.)  Meg's mother did that, but got flustered - she wanted a child with red hair and green eyes but accidentally  reversed the words  ...

Thank you very much for your very thorough and thoughtful  commentary on the story so far.   I haven't read the Lackey book, so any resemblance is purely coincidental; the Heinlein/Wiccan/libertarian influences were spot on (though I prefer to take my libertarianism as a personal philosophy and not as a political stance - my experience with the political Libertarians is that most of them are tin-foil-hat-wearing whackos who are just as much control freaks as the rest of the politicians in this country).

Dragon63 posted a comment on Friday 8th August 2008 7:28pm for Professor TwoBears

Wow! I *love* this! So much wonderful background detail that's missing from canon that was really *needed* in canon to fully flesh out the framework of the Wizarding universe.

I loved the Weasleys' tree-planting ceremony/spell for welcoming new members into the family, whether through birth, fostering, or adoption. It clearly had a well thought out emotional, logical, and magical basis and just *felt* right.

And following right on the heels of that, the whole Garden of Avalon experience, with the twining trees and the symbolism of the cut apple to summon the relevant spirit, and the sharing of a meal to welcome those spirit(s) into a discussion. I also noticed in your little picnic ceremony the use of balanced female-male "poles-of-power" (so to speak) at each of the four sides of the square picnic blanket, three living sides and one spirit side. Very well done!!

Being myself a long-time Heinlein fan (I myself first read "Stranger" in 1970, and it had a powerful effect on me), I was delighted to see Harry first interested in reading it (if only because the title struck a chord in him), and also to see it included in a list of fiction that shows how Mundanes (thee and me, lol!) regard Magic.

The "Ethics" class also struck me as being influenced by Heinlein... those "10 Rules" in that booklet struck me as an interesting melding of "Starship Troopers" (the book, *not* the movie dreck), Wicca, and some of the basic tenets of the American Libertarian Party.

I think I also recognized what appeared to be influences from Mercedes Lackey's book "Sacred Ground"... although I suspect (as I am writing this) that these are coincidental because of the similarities in subject matter between that story and parts of yours, particularly Lakota (and other Native American) Medicine and shamanistic practices.

And it looks like Harry is learning that he is going to *have* to become a "Chief" in order to have a chance of defeating Voldemort and the DEs. If he tries to remain a Warrior, then all he will *ever* be is a weapon wielded by Dumbledore... and he is slowly realizing that, because a weapon never needs to be told "why", nor does it really need any information other than "kill the evil one!".

I am hoping that you can return to this story at some point, it stopped at such an interesting place (Tommy is part of Dumbledore's "crew" that meets and defeats Grindewald?!?!?), and leaves so many things dangling and unanswered... However, I can certainly understand the vagaries of Real Life and an uncooperative Muse.

Thank you for what you have shared so far; it is complex, rich, detailed, thought-provoking, and enjoyable!

rogue7 posted a comment on Wednesday 30th July 2008 2:09pm for Professor TwoBears

Eghad what a place to pause the story...
Is there any hope of continuing this great story ?

cwejr posted a comment on Monday 28th July 2008 9:58am for Professor TwoBears

Good semi-cliffhanger. Nice for a chuckle. Harry's self-doubt is still driving his life. Is he ever going to get to the point where he gets some self confidence? As much as he has done (and/or survived) he should at least have developed a little. He's always poor-mouthing himself (it's my fault / Why me?) and claiming credit for everything that goes wrong, even if it's other people's choices.

This is a very interesting story but, I hope someone gets thru to h
Harry and wakes him up to the real world. He needs to grow up and get off the pity party.

I am eagerly awaiting more of this story, hopefully soon.

SassyFrass posted a comment on Saturday 12th July 2008 2:17pm for Professor TwoBears

I really have enjoyed reading this story, although in my opinion, it really needs to be a Harry/Ginny story.
I am very interested in finding out what Harry's animal will be. Will it be a snake or not?
I hope the story isn't abandoned.

Corinn posted a comment on Sunday 6th July 2008 1:44pm for Professor TwoBears

Oh, you evil, evil, evil person. What a place to stop. I hope you continue this, as it's so well-written and I love the fresh perspective to which you expose the Hogwarts bunch. *applause*

gizachick posted a comment on Sunday 6th July 2008 10:34am for Professor TwoBears

Wow. What a place to leave off. I like this story very much so far. Are there plans to continue with it, or are you focusing elsewhere now?

Medico posted a comment on Monday 9th June 2008 11:35am for Professor TwoBears

Will this ever be completed? It stops too quickly; this needs to be finished.

kate19 posted a comment on Friday 6th June 2008 2:33pm for Professor TwoBears

i like it, i like it, i like it a lot!! mature ron, harry actually noticing girls before going out with them or falling into a relationship. hermione and ginny, i think you portray them wuite well. all the extra characters, phew, that must have been some work!? al of these things, i must admit it's quite an original story, since i haven't read it like this yet. or maybe i should say nobody thought of writing like this.

anyway i loved it!!! and hope to see future chapters!!!! love to know how that story will continue!!

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