Looking For Beta Readers
Hello! I'm looking for a beta reader (or readers) interested in helping me out with a fic I'm writing, but I've yet to start posting. I already have one long-term beta, but I'm looking for at least one more opinion on my work, just so I can recalibrate a few things if I need to. At this stage I don't necessarily need another long term beta-reader, but just someone willing to look at what I've got so far and give feedback/answer a few questions would be great.
The premise of the project is a slow divergence Harry Potter fanfic starting in PS, covering all 7 years of canon. I'm hoping it turns into my first big project. I've written about 16 chapters and a prologue so far (~65k words, 1k-6k per chapter), and another few thousand words from random moments later in the fic. There would be no obligation to give feedback on all of this - even just the first few chapters would be fantastic.
The main characters I'll focus on are Harry, Ron, Hermione, (and some Dumbledore)
The fic itself is intended to have no bashing, and be largely gen (It may include romance later on, but nothing explicitly sexual).
The general premise I went into the fic with was:
'What if Harry, Ron, and Hermione actually had complete character arcs, and came out more developed, magically and emotionally?'.
This has morphed into me also trying to create more realistic and complex characters in general, and improving the worldbuilding.
I'm looking for feedback primarily on each chapter's general readability, structure and flow, the overall plot consistency, and what people think of the character development so far. For the early chapters I'm also curious about how much people feel they mirror/follow canon, and how interesting they are to read.
I've put a lot of work into the worldbuilding that's going to go into this, and I really just want to make sure I'm starting the writing off on the right foot before I get too stuck in. Comment or send me a message if you're interested, and thanks in advance for any help!