This is a review from someone whose only Harry Potter experience thus far has been the movies and memes. As such, this is one of my first deeper dive into the written lore, and the fact that it is queer and neuroA-minded makes it even better.

In this story, ArdentlyQueer writes a clearly superior and more realistic portrayal of the trauma resulting what has basically been eleven years of abuse.

That result in a story that has thus far been about healing and friendship first, and heroics second.

Also, not having read the original books, it's not always obvious to me which events came from the original canon and which are new. Shows some great storytelling consistency!

All in all, that's a warm recommendation from me, but just don't go in expecting lots of flashy heroics ;)

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I've read the original 7 books of Harry Potter, many time, and seen the movies even more. I've read countless fanfictions, wether it be from Harry's point of veiw, or a new character in the timeline, whether that be at the current age, or either in Voldemorts time in school, or the Maurauder era. 

And yet... this is the only one out of all of them that sung to me. After the first $ew chapters, I found myself drawn in to the characters, loving this reimagining of a familiar world even more than any of the others that have tried. This story is my new favorite, and I wish that this world we live in could be reset so that this could be the original! I will be sticking with our dear author till the end, no matter what hapoens, and hope everyone else finds as much enjoyment in this brave new world as I have so far.

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This is exactly what the title promises: Hogwarts reimagined. An incredibly ambitious project when you look at the size of it. 

ArdentlyQueer really wrote everything you might want to know about the story in the description, so go read that if you want to know more about the fanfic content wise. I will just add that it is well thought through.

I like faer writing style really well. At first I thought xe would stay close to the book in writing style but as the story deviated from the books, the writing style did too. The traumatic experiences are vivid, the fluffy scenes cozy, the emotions just seem real.

So if you want to see queer representation, traumatic experiences being described much more realistically than in the source material or if you just want to read a Harry Potter fanfic that has more than 400.000 words, then you might want to read this. And please only form your opinion after you read the first book.

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