15h c166 recycler
oy vey another "pAiN iS dA beSt tEAcheR" arc for Ronnie boy. Fun. We've done this entire song and dance during christmas with his broken face, and again with his broken leg when he got beat by the auror trainer. Time is a flat circle so I guess it's time to bring it back again.

The annoying part is that Ron should've seen this coming. During his years at Hogwarts, Percy always chose his own education over Ron. Time and time again he gets annoyed because Ron held back information from him, and yet when called out by Ron who brings it to his attention that he could always ask after Ron, he folds. As smart and wise as Ron is portrayed, he should've seen and understood that Percy would've chosen the perceived optics of being the new personal assistant to the leader of a growing political regime over his constantly lawbreaking brother. Optics and public persona is something Ron knows well and understands, and yet...

Ron's ability to read other characters is weaker than he leads on. While he feeds us readers hokum about the stolen money being for emergencies, that's just pretext, the real reason he wants him to have the money is to keep Percy in his pocket. And when things don't go his way he gets all whiny and starts hurting himself...again. For all his machismo, Ron is such a snowflake. I get that he's our badass saviour, but the generic repetitiveness of his arcs are tiresome and bloated.

I've invested almost 4 million words worth of timereading in this fic, so no point in walking away. But I'll use this opportunity to point out the weaknesses in this fic rather than its strengths. Looking forward to Ron relearning that pain is not the best teacher.

12/9 c166 Muhammad Ibrahim Faisal
Ayo bro amazing ending for the chapter

12/8 c166 Majolia
someone please intervene, suicide attempts are too much
(heyy long time lurker first time commenting, love your story, hi from Brazil!)

12/8 c166 bullshit123
Senti falta dessa história, obrigado pela atualização

12/8 c166 8Phlebiac
Damn the final two PoVs, really changes the pacing of the entire chapter

I love how the centaurs view Ron as a whole, someone who doesn't follow the rules of nature (the stars) that can be what the world'need but if he stays his welcome he would do irreparable damage

Cuffe's PoV was an interesting one, knowing that not only you loss to a child in something you have being doing more years that the kid has lived, but knowing that he is your last chance to be relevant in the industry, another thing that I like it is that Cuffle as someone who is an outsider of Ron's world he can realize that Ron's employees are really loyal to him

I know Moody how it feels that your boss try to make you do unreasonable goals that he make them even more impossible... I really do

Daphne PoV was the most interesting for me, making amendments of Ron's actions and her father's too (I'm really waiting to see what would be her reaction when she find what his father is doing with the wolfsbane market)

I'm waiting for that conversation between Ron and the Centaur chief

Excellent chapter as always man!

12/8 c166 Guest
Beautifully written chapter.

12/8 c166 2Saintzor
Theo and Millie are either going to fuck up royally or they'll be super helpful to Ron's plans and I'm really curious to see how that plot will go

I very much enjoyed Daphne's reflections during the chapter. Will she be Ron's steadfast ally for life? Will she move on and try to pave her own path? Something in-between?

Ah, Percy, you twat... That'll only make Ron want to get away from his family even more

And then there's Ron jumping again... better hope no one saw that, bro, or it'll only cause you a bunch of headaches

Thanks for the chapter, Spartan

12/3 c156 Minatom
Review for chapter 156 part 7

Daphne’s POV.
Ron is buried in his assignments that Mcgonagall gave him. And things are not doing too well for him, Surely, by now he’s so strong-willed he can brute-force through his tasks to get perfect marks on his own, but it’ll take a lot of time and effort. Sadly, Ron is not an actual genius like Dumbledore or Riddle, and he can’t casually complete his assignments. Even Percy’s notes helps him so much. Speaking of which… Didn’t Percy’s notes were destroyed by Crabbe and Goyle in the first year? I remember him getting notes of Triumvirate girls for 3rd and 4th year and using them instead. It’s not that important, though.

Can’t help but agree that for Ron specifically, it’s a total waste of time to learn mundane and impractical magical lessons that Hogwarts has to offer in majority of his assignments. If only Dumbledore could arrange Ron a special education program that would concentrate on him learning practically useful skills for war in classes, instead off regular program. Like Conjuration, or Protean Charm.

Ron follows RavenclawRon’s advice and still gives Daphne a cold-shoulder, shooting down her attempts to reconcile. And all of Cobras are silently supports Ron in that. It’s not that they like what he’s doing, but they just choose him over Daphne. Auch.

Daphne become so enthusiastic, when received Sebastian’s letter about Centaurs. Having a benefit of hindsight from future chapters, Daphne’s looks so amusingly naïve. She is offended by being called sheltered and spoiled girl. It’s sad that her fantasy of great Greengrass redemption are going to be shattered, but her confidence in her success is amusing.

Ruta’s owl delivered Millie’s and Eric’s letters just as planned. Though it took five days. In his letter Schwartz addresses Daphne and Mary, he clearly hopes for Lord Greengrass’ help. Sebastian is the real power of Greengrass family, whatever Daphne may think about it. So only Sebastian can actually help Eric and Lady Maier in this situation. And I think Eric hopes that Mary and Daphne will convince him to do it. Interestingly, that Ron maybe would have even helped himself, if Daphne showed him Eric’s letter. Maybe even put Death’s Hand to work – they are originated from Germany, or at least has a Germany, or at least has a base of operations here.

Millie’s letter was both was both heartwarming and heartbreaking. On one hand, it’s sad that she decided to stay in Durmstrang, and Cobras are not going to reunite for a long while. On the other hand, Millie is the only one of Cobras, that decided to make a life-changing decision and pull her own weight, and even help out someone else. Blaise also made life-changing decision, but he’s only trying to survive for now, and it’ll be sometime before he’ll start to help someone. I also like that Millie openly admitted Ron was right, and apologized for her betrayal and tries to do better for someone else. It’s truly noble of her, and fully fit into Ron’s standards of redemption that he told Dumbledore in previous chapter. And I think, if Millie’s letter was different, and she would have begged Ron to rescue her, he would immediately bolted to Durmstrang to extract her.

Daphne didn’t took it well, and insist Ron is at fault of Millie’s decision and must rescue her. Against her will. Amusingly, in the first year, when Theo and Blaise left the group for some time, Daphne was vehemently disagreeing to let them back. Even called Ron a fool for doing it. And now, she’s insisting on not just let Millie back into the group, but also pull her out of Durmstrang against her and her parents will. Daphne was seriously out of the line blaming it all on Ron, and demanding action from him. Ron on the other hand handled it very maturely, and walk away from pointless fight. Ron’s patience with Greengrass sisters is exemplarily! Even without Ron’s problems and short-temper, I was frustrated at their audacity in this chapter.

I’m glad Blaise stood up for Ron against Daphne and call her out. So based! If Daphne wants to change things about Millie, she can do it herself and not put that burden in Ron. Funnily enough, Daphne actually start to think she can do it herself. Damn, Daphne is mostly a nice girl, but sometimes she’s so delusional. And thanks to her father, she thinks that being Greengrass makes her special. The rude awakening is coming for her.

Blaise was completely out of the line threatening to hit Daphne! I get that he’s trying to support Ron and imitate his behavior, but that was too far!

Hermione’s POV.
Snape continued his Potions Club. Hermione and Ron are making Mandrake Restorative Draught. That potion is going to be helpful very soon at the war – many people will get cursed, and would need to remove the effects of the Dark Magic. In second year, it was said that there are a shortage of Mandrakes and this potion, because people rarely get cursed these days. Ron should think about talking with Dumbledore and Sprout and plant as many Mandrakes as possible. Maybe involve Theo and Neville into the project.

I like that now everyone is wary of getting on Ron’s bad side, since he won A rank Tournament so dominantly. And brutally.

Once again Ron got the best deal of the situation: he had a problem with his homework, and Hermione suggested to help him with it as a gratitude for teaching her wandless magic. I’m pretty sure Daphne is Ron’s endgame romance, but moments like this are a great reminder of why Hermione is one the main contenders for the spot (and probably a soulmate in the original timeline). Not only she’s brave and noble, but she’s also very hard-working, goal-oriented and helpful. He saw this scene from Hermione’s POV, but I’m pretty sure Ron at this moment thought how amazing she is, and maybe even favorably compared her to Daphne.

I hope Hermione would not be the only one from Ron’s year to learn wandless magic in the story. They all are going to be involved in the war, one way or another, and as Ron say, wandless magic may save their lives one day. Obviously, no one is going to be as good at that as Ron is now. Wandless magic is his own gimmick, and I like it! However, I wouldn’t mind if some of his classmates learn a few simple wandless spells in two or three years of practice (because non of them would train as rigorously as Ron). Like Levitation, Depulso, and maybe even Shield charm.

Sebastian’s POV.
Sebastian suffers from Mary’s wrath. According to him it’s their biggest fight ever. Ron really got into her, when he broke their relationships at the Alliance meeting. It hurt Mary deeply and now she blames Sebastian. Well, she mostly right, they wouldn’t be in such trouble, if Greengrass didn’t orchestrated the murder of Centaurs. Ron is also right about Mary’s bad side too – for ten years she was willing to ignore and forget Sebastian’s atrocity, and only lashes out on him now, when his past come back to bite them. She accuses him of cowardice and that’s true, but she completely blind to her own faults, and won’t assume any responsibility.

I also get Mary’s point of not allowing their thirteen years old daughter to risk her life meeting Centaurs and losing her innocence dealing with this situation. In general, I would agree with her. But here is the thing – the war is coming. And their family is deeply involved in it. Daphne and Astoria are going to lose that innocence way sooner then they should have been. So maybe it’s even better that they will do it in planned and relatively controlled situation.

Sebastian do not took Mary’s wrath too well. He even thought for a moment to kill her, if she’ll dare to took their daughters. Exactly this is the problem with Greengrass – when his pride is hurt, he lashes out without thinking. Once again, I see parallel with Tywin Lannister. And his unreasonable retribution is his undoing.

On the other hand, with the benefit of his POV, we can see that he did changed for better. A little. Ron made him felt guilt for what he had done. Yes, he’s regrets being caught more than he regrets killing Centaurs. But still, if given a choice to never get caught or never commit the crime in the first place, I think Sebastian would choose the later now. Also, talking to himself, Sebastian corrected himself and started to address Centaurs as… Centaurs instead of half-breeds. It’s a small change, but a change nevertheless. Small changes makes a big change.

Gaspard’s POV.
Well, shit. Dolohov is finally got up from his bed and massacred the whole Riddle manor. He harvested pieces of the mercs and now is going to mold them into a Frankenstein monster. What a psycho. He’ll probably use a modified Dark Magic that raises Inferi to animate his Homunculus. And something tells me that this abomination will be able to use magic. So are we going to expect Dolohov rising an army of reanimated Homunculus crafted from harvested parts of fallen fighters from both sides?

Gaspard is just as insane as Dolohov and delighted at his work. You can say whatever you want about how cruel and unhinged Ron and Luka are, but with the monsters like this, people like them are needed.