I read all of your (currently published) Alexandra Quick stories a few years ago but, as I finish AQATTC for the second time, shall follow the instructions in the PDF and post a review! Well, if "review" means a glowing acclamation. It's rare to find a fanfiction that pays true homage to the source material without being afraid to expand the story--Alexandra Quick is more of, in my humble opinion, a spiritual sequel series than what is commonly called fanfiction. Don't get me wrong, I love and write fanfiction and I'm not trying to demean the genre in any way. But it is pretty rare to find an author so bold as to write a whole set of books with all Original Characters--and succeed! Alexandra Quick reinvigorated that sense of wonder I felt reading Harry Potter for the first time, the great feeling of discovering a new and fascinating world with marvellous creatures, histories, and magic. Like rereading a good novel, rereading AQATTC let me appreciate the story's subtleties, foreshadowing, and watching the characters grow up as I consider what they are in later years...
Specifically to this book in the series, let me congratulate you on a stellar introduction to an American wizarding world that neither overly condemns out of hand the injustices of the Old or British world--as seems common in much fan fiction--nor is it merely a carbon copy of the Old World magic. Moreover, your characterization and pacing are excellent, and your ideas and turns of phrase are a genuine pleasure to read (what comes to my mind first are Trollbooths, your Rowlingesque appreciation for acronyms, and the American identities of governmental institutions).
While I know you have kept up the good work, given that I'm set on rereading the other books soon, I can only finish by saying...I can't wait for AQATWA.