The beginning was hard to divorce from the Dramione fic (and I'm not a Dramione fan), but I was able to move past that after a while. You can kind of see where names were replaced, but that got better as the book went on too. The world and the magic system felt properly fleshed out. It could definitely stand on its own! In the end, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. My big problem was all the talk about virginity! It was a little much.