Disclaimer: You should know that I do not consider myself a scholar of the fictional universe of Harry Potter™; and I do not think that having all of the seven ‘Harry Potter’ books on the first day (yes, even the first one, it is a long story…), or the equivalent, makes me special… [now that I think about it, I also own the seven audiobooks, both Jim Dale’s American and Stephen Fry’s British English, the seven Pottermore ebooks plus all “A Journey Through”, “The Hogwarts Library Collection”, screenplays, playscripts, the eight feature films as 4K HDR Blu-ray Discs, steadily reading seven fanfics a week since 2002, or that the letter “e” occurs exactly 570,505 times in all seven books—excluding the chapter titles.]
Some issues and things without a description, but to be expected from a Release 12… The premise reminds me of the fanfic “A year too soon”, where Harry Potter gets enrolled into Hogwarts in 1990 instead of 1991. I hastily crossed the featureless rooms of Hogwarts to find out who was teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts, some unknown “Professor Balor”, and about the shocking disappearance, and cancellation of the class for the rest of the term. Then I went to the Potions classroom and met a fully unimplemented Snape. I anticipated a scavenger hunt, but what a disappointment…
Since the IFComp rules consider this a transformative work, under the fan-fiction category, I think it is not necessary to go deeper into this subject. I will only mention one fact: when I read it in my own words, my mind filled in the voids and errors, and I saw it as the crowning achievement of J. K. Rowling, not of the author.
Iris Colt — Interactive Fiction 