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It took longer than I wanted, but here is the chapter 110 of The odds were never in my favour, Civil's War End.

And yes, after much deep thinking, I can say finishing the fourth year in four chapters looks to have been...exaggeratingly optimistic. 

Oh, well.

The writing will continue no matter how contrary the tides...

Onwards and enjoy!

Oh, and yes, I am now going to work on the new chapter of An Impractical Guide to Godhood. There's some preparations to be done before, of course, but hopefully it shouldn't take too long.

Bests,

Comments

Songy

Thanks to the wordsmith! A bit of calming down (relatively speaking) after last chapters showdown... and either Neville forgot most of his lessons during his 'growth spurt' AGAIN or he tries to deflect and deny. Same old, same old. All hail our new dark mistress!

Jeremy

So I read the part with Dumbledore has the materials to prolong the Hogwarts issue, but I have a suspicion he is going to have issues implementing it. Both because Nidhogg has already bribed Alexandra so I am expecting he will be free before the end of the year, especially since I think Alexandra will need his aid and knowledge to prepare for the coming of Apophis. Also because I think all the students at Hogwarts have already left so this might be the safest time for a dragon to bust through Hogwarts with minimal casualties. Thirdly, now that I think about it I think there is a relative short list of people who Dumbledore can have craft the delay for him (I think it begin and ends Dumbledore) and he might suddenly find himself too busy or unable to craft it in time. On that note still looking forward to the additional fall out from these events hitting Dumbledore. It feels like so far he has gotten off pretty light for interfering in the duel with Leo Black and inviting Ra into Hogwarts and the European Tournament. He effectively invited to his school to educate future wizard and witches the leader of an organization that destroyed Hogsmeade and was intending to murder everyone there. The assumptions is either Dumbledore failed to properly vet the people he trusted the future of magical England too.. or was secretly a supporter / ally of Ra and his terrorist organization the whole time. That is not counting the non-magical side that is calling for justice in regards to him spiriting away a mass murder... a government who will be ill-disposed towards him since his actions give the impression that he does not see value in non-magical life (muggle).

Jeremy

Slight side question - with the statue falling and combining the muggle and magical world how does muggleborn and half-blood citizenship work out. I would assume that if Alexandra was muggle raised for the first 10 years of her life she is technically a citizen of muggle United Kingdom.. if so would they be able to prosecute Dumbledore on her behalf for his attempt to cover the attempts of murder in the 1st year? Also would all the parents of muggle-raised students be able to sue Dumbledore for the events of the 2nd year? It always feel odd that no student was ever pulled out when something was going around turning students to stone, and while I believe the magical parent would accept that Dumbledore would ensure nothing goes wrong, I am not so sure if the muggle parents would be so much faith in Dumbledore (i.e I always felt he covered up and hid the incidents from the general public). Also with few exceptions the "Defense Against the Dark Arts" teacher inevitably dies, and often at Hogwarts itself violently, I pretty sure that detail is never mentioned to parents thinking about enrolling their children at Hogwarts. I guess what I am getting at is Dumbledore going to find himself suddenly busy with a bunch of new civil lawsuits to go along with United Kingdom government finding a few more criminal charges they can add on when they get there hands on him.

s22132

Thanks for the update. It sounds like Alexandra will be in less mortal peril, but even busier than before. Not to mention how 'interesting' things are going to be around the world.

chubster

Ron's little "Hurrah" amused me to no end, and Neville's internal thoughts were disappointing across the board. He's still a child, isn't he? He hasn't matured enough to really understand how utterly corrupt his life has become by virtue of just not paying attention. And he's probably never going to learn. Dumbledore being an utter bastard though. At least he's acknowledging that he failed, and he isn't trying to blame Alexandra for everything that happened. Though, I wonder how long that will last when The Black Book finally comes out and his entire legacy will be reduced to ash. Especially when Alexandra releases Nidhogg. Oh please, PLEASE let the Queen of England, Alexandra Potter and her Vampire mother meet. If this was Worm I'd be begging for a PHO interlude (basically internet forum chapter where the global public online responds), but The Odds has been amazing with its global news tying everything together, like the Nimbus Company making the Nimbus 2001 to offset the damages made by the Escheuqer's summons back in Year 2. I hope we find out more about bits of the world.

silversight1111

The big battles are fun, but watching the political fallout is always the best part. The new factions that are forming, the tattered remains of factions that are trying to scrabble, now adding in the the muggle side that will have to reconcile with the magical side is almost enough to give one a headache. Part of any power or title is the people’s acquiescence to the leadership of said person in power. It’ll be fun to watch both magic and muggle scrabble to collect and maintain any power. Watching Alexandra pout about not being able to kill all her enemies and having Lucrezia be voice of reason is new. I’m guessing this has to be because she’s tied to a different plane? Lyudmila is going to be there to throw spanners in all the machines, but it is nice to know that she can be reasoned with if the situation comes down to life or death -mainly hers. I wonder if in the coming task(s) a ritual might see Death finally finding a new plane to be tied to as well? To neatly complete the story arch? If so, bets on which one? Also, bets on Lyudmila’s first big act of chaotic destruction and showmanship on the world stage! Ignoring being daddy’s favorite mad attack dog doesn’t count…

Nicholas

Thanks for the chapter. I thought it spent a lot of words to say very little. Lots of it seemed to be written specifically to tell us there is something here you don't know while keeping us from figuring out what we don't know. The only surprise for me was that the Tournament is going to continue. I expected the rest of the tournament to be cancelled. This makes me think the Exchequer has another seal they really really want to trigger. I'm very nervous about what it might do.