"James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing" is a 360 page self-published online novel--an unofficial and unauthorized continuation of the Harry Potter book series. The novel is set eighteen years after the end of the
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", and describes the adventures of Harry's son, James Potter, during his first year at Hogwarts.
James is shy and nervous, deeply concerned about the tremendous Potter family legacy that he feels pressured to live up to. On the train, he makes two new friends (his Ron and Hermione, as it were): Zane Walker and Ralph Deedle, both Muggle-borns. Like his father before him, James gets into much trouble, and gets entangled in a larger plot to destabilize the magical and non-magical worlds. This involves an organization known as the Progressive Element, who wish to make the magical world known to the Muggles, and three relics which are believed to be able to bring Merlin to this day and age, at the Hall of Elders' Crossing.
It has it’s cringe worthy moments but it’s simply nice to have a bit more of the Potter Worlds to read about. Lippert has succeeded in morphologizing certain loose ends JK left hanging, such as the moving portrait problem. These matters he handles with a loving detail guaranteed to endear him to fanatical fans, of which he is clearly one himself.
The introduction of the American element seems natural when you consider the writers origins but having an American student and a teacher was overkill. There are several continuity errors with the canon that a fanatic would note: Prof. McGonagall isn’t the permanent headmaster, the Defense Against the Dark Arts position is no longer cursed after Voldemort’s death, and electronic devices do not work at Hogwarts.
This is one of the few “fan fictions” that seems to come close to crossing the border between online wishing and real life writings. But what must be taken into account is that the book was written for people who don’t want to see the end of Harry Potter and not for people who go crazy about the smallest detail being changed.
I was happy to be back in that Harry Potter world–and I really did feel like I was. I will most probably read the sequel to this.
You can download this title as well as the rest of the trilogy here:
http://www.jamespotterseries.com/Book Details: Title James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing (James Potter, #1)
Author G. Norman Lippert
Reviewed By Purplycookie
oh my. i didn't know this existed. thanks much! downloading now :) 