TL;DR: It just kept going and going and going and going and going….
As usual, Ron and Hermione have broken up. She decides to return to Hogwarts to help the rebuilding of the school. Although the title is ‘Rebuilding,’ it is more about the rebuilding of themselves as their own person, not due to their action or lack of action during the war. Which sounds all great and dandy, buuuutt… I wasn’t joking about this fic being forever and a half long.
At the start, they are actually rebuilding, but you get a glimpse of how fucked up everyone in this fic is. I understand that war messes with people, but not a single one of the central characters were “normal.” Certainly not if you were in any house but Gryffindor. Every single house had problems. Draco, I believe, being the worse.
He cuts himself to deal with the repercussions of the war. Which normally, let me make this clear, normally I would not care about. But it needs to be done well. He cuts himself to deal with things, but he never admits to himself that it’s a legitimate problem that needs announcing. He tells Theo that Hermione makes it better. So basing your happiness and emotional well-being on a significant other, not going to cause problems down the road at all, but I can ignore that. Not the only fic that I’ve read that is guilty of doing that.
But then, after a few incidents, it never gets brought up again. Bam, wam, and done.
By this point, I’m so used to every single character in this fic being so out of character, I don’t care for that too much. But I keep on reading because I am committed to see this thing through.
Draco and Hermione’s relationship, to me, seemed to be stuck in that puppy love stage trying to be an adult relationship. Again, not a major deal, but everyone’s relationship seemed to be that way.
Susan sleeps with everyone who is interested in a quick tumble in the sheet. That was her coping mechanism until Theo, along with the help of Blaise, pull her out of her depression by being there for her.
Theo ends up with Percy, but had a moment with Neville while Neville was experimenting. His experiments were… I thought the author was going to address the bi-curiosity aspect of the fic more, but it never goes past the woe is me, I feel used and I am sad because I love you stage.
Speaking of I loves you, people either loved you and you were happy or they didn’t and you weren’t.
One of the other girls is anorexic or something close to that and that never gets explored at all! And Theo’s alcoholism?
The overall story line was interesting enough for me to finish it. I wanted to know what happened to the side characters. Will the doc get her dreams, Susan into the Wizengamot. Will Molly get over her bull.
But honestly, by the end of the fanfic, everyone is so one dimensional and so terribly out of character, to the point you can’t ignore it, to the point where the author only borrowed names and magic from the original, I simply did not care how it ended, I just wanted it to end.
I was hoping to be like….
But honestly, it was more of a…
The author does have potential, though. The ideas were there. Just too much about everything at once.
Although in their defense, it was written as a series of small one offs. I just didn’t care for it. Not as a whole. If it was to be read as intended, it would have probably been more enjoyable. Reading it throughout the week on the other hand…
If you’re stuck reading this on a long flight, go ahead and read it, the lead up to where each supporting character will end is interesting enough to hold you interest. But I will not be rereading this and will not recommend to anyone past high school age.
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