The Best Revenge: Time of the Basilisk

The Best Revenge #2

by Arsinoe de Blassenville

Fandom: Harry Potter
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AU: The continuation of Book I. Not all of Tom Riddle is gone. A mysterious journal and a new Defense teacher pose challenges for Harry and his guardian. T for Mentor Snape's occasional naughty language. Supportive Minerva.

Genres: Fan Fiction, Fantasy

435 pages, ebook

First published November 14, 2010

Reviews

[Shayan Kh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty much like the previous one. A nice enough book, with low doses of stress and a bunch of happy feelings throughout the book.
If you've read the previous book and liked it, I recommend this book for you.

[Carly Kirk · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty satisfying ending to the series, since the adults all take care of the horcruxes and Harry and the rest of the kids get to be just that - kids.

Appropriately enough I was left feeling very uneasy about Diary!Tom Riddle (now Merlin Gaunt as he renamed himself) because he now knows all the ways he as Voldemort screwed up all his plans and isn't going to let himself make those same type of mistakes. He's now going to go to a magic university in the US, but it's very apparent he's a sociopath with *plans* we just don't know what they are, only that he intends to be much more subtle. It's funny though because he's only in the second to last chapter and doesn't even have any bearing on the story as a whole, basically he was much smarter about how he sucked the life from a student, learned everything he could about the 50 years he missed while in the diary, built up a fortune from the Room of Requirement and then got out of Britain...

[Sean Randall · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well I simply had to carry on knowing there was more. tied up very neatly, not really a very harry story in the end but charming in its own way. I laughed out loud at the exclamation in the trial; such a lack of swearing makes for a brilliant contrast when it eventually appears.
Overall, a refreshing change from the end of the world and the darkness of the adultishness some fanfics go for.

[Deeze · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good sequel, but it was more about Snape and Charity than I wanted.

I love fanfics that give a different telling of the original and this worked well in that aspect.

[rixx · Rating 1 out of 5]

The fluff continues escalating, and the author has decided that they are, uh, whimsical and funny. They are not.