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When the Roses Bloom Again - Making Headlines (Patreon)

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2022-02-13 17:06:10
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2026-06
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And another one in the books for you... We have some very interesting chapters coming up indeed...

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Isaiah Wingfield

The wait between chapters are some of the hardest times of my life.

TC1687

Good, apart from the fact that you spent half the chapter detailing how scary the women in Harry's life are. Don't know why people find that funny or cute...

Jon Patreon

Honestly, I'm about done with this fic. The trench warfare always seems odd in WW2. Then there's all these women who aren't fighting for some random reason despite being shown as equally capable in every other profession, who nag and moan at Harry constantly for fighting in a war and saving lives while they sit cozy at home. Honestly, Minerva, Poppy, Perenell and the others should either join in or fuck off. We get long sections about Minerva or Tom who are both uninteresting and Harry's previously exciting life as The Serpent seems completely dead. I appreciate you work hard on these but this is your first work that seems to be really going sideways.

Lee McCusker (TheBlack'sResurgence)

How would you suggest the war would be fought? Both sides wield magic, one side wishes to defend whilst the other seeks to take targets. Stationary warfare of attrition is what this type of war consists of. It happened all the way back to sieges of castles and so on. You also have to understand the perspective of those that aren't fighting. They have not lived the life Harry has and they cannot fathom doing the things he has done. They care for and worry about him and the human psyche when it comes to things like this is to be angry/upset/concerned because they have no control over such risky outcomes. At the end of the chapter he used the serpent moniker, what part of him is dead? Because he is not acting as a Hit-Wizard? He is trying to keep the two separate and part of the story is the coming together of Harry Evans and The Serpent as one person. Currently, he sees them as two different things and the war has only just started. There's so much to cover that not every single chapter is going to be full of action

Lee McCusker (TheBlack'sResurgence)

I mean, I could just neglect to mention any reactions to key events as I did in other stories. That didn't seem to go well at all. This isn't about depicting them being scary or anything of the like. It is clear that Harry would wipe the floor with them, it is about understanding the reaction of those that care about him, the helplessness they feel, and how they cope with him doing what he does

JondiceMD

You’re so wrong it hurts. Keep it up TBR this has been my favorite and I’ve read all your fics.

TC1687

I get what you are saying. This is definitely better than no reaction. Although I didn't agree with some of the things the guy below me is saying, I do agree that the women are just sitting at home, complaining about Harry doing what he needs to do to save lives. I appreciate that they are not used to it but they should understand that Harry's job is to hunt the literal worst people alive. He has shown time and time again that he is probably one of the most powerful and capable people alive yet they continue to baby and chide him for doing anything dangerous. I'm not saying that they should get involved in the war but they should certainly stop nagging and complaining about Harry playing his role. Yes, Harry flying directly at a Dragon was stupid (and awesome) but he saved many lives and he knows what he is doing, they should trust in that and, if anything, recognise that he must do this and encourage him rather than threatening to throttle him.

Alex Estrugo

Typo on the end of page 4 to fix when you go back and edit. "Not that he wasn’t proud of the boy for what he’d done, he was exceptionally so, but it wasn’t oft3en enough that someone else was the object of Perenelle’s ire."

Lord Blackadder

The problem with rapidly progressing the magical warfare of WWII is that TBR will have to do the same with the muggle warfare. The question becomes how? Unless Lee's wants to rewrite the course of WWII. That being said, the magical history from canon has already been altered due to Harry's involvement. So how this will translate to the actual duration of WWII is something that only time will tell. As for the slow pace of the story, well it's not a one-shot...

Lord Blackadder

With the constant updates to Tom and how others react around him, it seems to create Tom as another villain for Harry to vanquish in this timeline. While I would like Tom to discover that Harry is the main reason why his ambitions will never succeed, this story arc or conflict has already been done several times. Tom dying in the Chamber because of some traps Harry set after killing the Basilisk would make a better statement that this Tom was not ever worth the effort of a face-to-face confrontation. Gellert is the true villain/antagonist in this story; and Tom is the afterthought. Just my thoughts.

Silens Maelstrom

Well now I think it’s only a matter of time before everyone will know Harry is the Serpent. With Grindelwald taking an interest in “Evans”, and planning on facing him, Harry might have to go all out, and there no way Gellert won’t notice similarities, especially if he has to resort to parseltongue. I was hoping that this special task force might have involved Arcturus as well, but I understand not wanting to be under Fox. But if it comes out Harry is the Serpent, well, the task force might still happen, just under a different leader perhaps? I’m still waiting for Arcturus and Charlus to share the family magic, hopefully Harry is involved with that as well. He is family after all. :)

Hpfanboi

You know...one thing I have realized here is that families like the Yaxleys are fighting against grindelwald and the malfoys are staying neutral(?). I really do want to know how this dynamic changed if and when Voldemort starts to make himself known...provided that it is going down that path of course.

Jon Patreon

@Lord Blackadder - The thing is the magical war keeps moving parallel to the muggle one but WW2 was not a trench war where people stayed in the same place for ages. The Germans took over the Netherlands & Belgium, pushed the BEF off the continent and got the French to surrender in 6 weeks. That is not a trench war.

Jon Patreon

@Lee - "How would you suggest the war would be fought?" - Personally, your earlier chapters where ministries and key locations were being fought over made more sense to me than trenches in an arbitrary location. I'm not really complaining about the trench warfare in the magical war but the fact you keep talking about muggle trenches, barbed wire, no-man's land etc. It's just weird seeing lots of WWI terms in a WWII story. "You also have to understand the perspective of those that aren't fighting." I get that they are worried but my cousin and uncle both served in recent wars. We'd never be angry at them for being brave or saving lives. The characters being worried makes sense but all of this "Minerva's going to kill you if Poppy doesn't first" stuff just bugs me. If they want him to be less at risk they should get off their arses and help. "At the end of the chapter he used the serpent moniker, what part of him is dead?" - It's a bit different killing a hundred men in Norway and stringing them up to whispering some parseltongue under a sonorus. It just seems like Harry has given up fighting the guerrilla war that he was so effective at and that was so interesting to read. "There's so much to cover that not every single chapter is going to be full of action." - I get that but in a Harry vs Grindelwald fic the time spent on Tom seems pointless.

TC1687

I completely agree with your 2nd and 3rd points. About Tom, It is seeming like he has some sort of role to play but it isn't like he could possibly come close to Harry's current ability for at least a decade or 2 at minimum, by which point Harry would likely have improved leaps and bounds. I don't think we are yet completely certain as to who the prophecy refers to though. Personally, I am going to reserve my judgement on that part until we see if it actually leads anywhere.

Nick Otto

I'm really enjoying the story, can't wait for the next one!

thevolunteer

I’m placing money on Fox figuring out Harry is the Serpent before anyone else. It would be a nice redeeming factor to her absolute ineffectiveness before. She’s not a general, she’s a bounty hunter, it makes sense that she would be connecting the dots.

MicRow

Keep it up. Reading the reviews I think people are nit picking out of impatience to see the story progress. If we had all the chapters to rattle off one after another I’m sure certain Patreons wouldn’t find certain bits boring etc

Steve Mccormick

Maybe Fox had an epiphany and now realizes she doesn't know everything and it is better to strike first instead of waiting. Maybe she will be able to be of some help to Harry, Charlus and Arcturus but I won't hold my breath until I read it!

Calagon

My only issue so far has been the depiction of the muggle warfare in France. They did not dig trenches, they relied on the Maginot Line, which were a series of concrete bunkers and pill boxes until you got to the border of Belgium where it became just barbed wire. Where the Maginot Line was completed (concrete bunkers, etc) the Germans had almost no penetration of French defenses. It was the border of Belgium that was where the Blitzkrieg crushed the French and English defenders.

Edward

They DID dig trenches along the border with Belgium as the Maginot Line did not extend beyond the French border with Germany. They TRIED to dig trenches in Belgium as they moved forward but had little time to do so.

Calagon

There may have been some trenches, but the Maginot line around Belgium was mainly barbed wire without trenches as it was VERY marshy land.