This story occurs during the time covered by the second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.  This fan fiction recounts the adventures of Luna Lovegood during her first year at Hogwarts.  However, portions of this story are drawn from all of the Harry Potter books.  In order to enjoy this story fully, you should read all of these other books first.  However, it is essential for a full appreciation of this story that the reader first read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

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James E. Pettis, June 2008

This is the evaluation presentation of my first full-length Luna Lovegood fan fiction.  My intention is to provide a story that does not deviate from J. K. Rowling’s stories in any way.  With this in mind, I have set up this site for the express purpose of having persnickety Harry Potter experts criticize my writing, my characterization, my details, my spelling, my grammar:  in short, to tell me at every stage why my story is not as good as Rowling’s.  My sincerest hope is that the readers of this story will inform me of every little thing that makes this tale unworthy to stand beside the real Harry Potter books.

The length of story on each web page is very close to the length of a page of text in the early U.S. hardbound editions.  Areas have been set up at the middle and end of every page so that you can tell me why you didn’t like it, how it was wrong, or simply that I should remove the miserable advertisements.  Please remember that I am looking for criticism here.  Compliments are nice, but they won’t improve the story.  Don’t feel obligated to address my “concerns.”  These are provided merely to give you some ideas about what to criticize in each section.  Comments are not received until you click one of the navigation buttons on the bottom of the page, i.e. the left and right arrow buttons.  So, please use the navigation buttons.

You may leave your e-mail in a comment if you desire a response, and you may leave me your Yahoo! Answers ID if you prefer (mine is JimPettis).  Thank you for reading this, and especially for your critical, not-pulling-any-punches evaluation.