I know the book exist, it was mentioned in the Author's Note. I haven't read it, but I googled it thoroughly and for one thing, in the book Laurie is ten or eleven, while in the fic, she is eight.
Laurie in the fic hardly ever shows any signs of being a little girl, but is able to do the same things at the adults. Her reactions are also wrong.
Also, the Sue had no personality except for abused-girl-mode. Unless the canon-Laurie was seriously badly written, Laurie should have some kind of personality traits carried over from her canon self.
And then there's the facts that the author never calls this a crossover, and that he/she ripped off Narnia. So I think a case can be made for character replacement.
As for the mother, in the book she apparently never abused Laurie in front of her stepsiblings and didn't think they knew about the abuse. Beating Laurie in front of Tim and locking him in a closet seems way off. And beating her with an iron fire-poker was not mentioned by any reviews or summaries so I doubt that it is from the book and it also seems like something she would not be able to claim that Laurie did to herself, so it also seems off. So I call character replacement there as well.
Tim and the puppy are no more than bits in what is not a crossover and Sue-Laurie never mentions either again, even though book-Laurie was very fond of both. There's hardly anything to tie them to the book.

So yes, I made a choice and I know it can be debated, but I did do a lot of research and based my interpretation on that.

... I say serious potential for comedy.

To-mah-to, to-lawnmower-to.

hS

Honestly? I'm not sure what level of analytical thought to expect from an eight-year-old, either. I don't really know any. But she had a lot of introspection and thoughts that I thought was way over her age.
So my agents complained a lot, but the actual charges for 'bad psychology' and 'inconsistencies' were deliberately vague.

I see your point about the other one as well, and it's not the kind of thing to build a charge list on, more a case of the agents being personally annoyed. Whatever happend to 'intimidating' or 'awe inspiring'? Eru knows that the girl had a large enough vocabulary.

Anyhow, glad this helped distract you!

I actually found Dwarrodelf on a page on the Tolkien Wikia site. Wonder if that also made the mini appear and where it went, when I corrected the error.
And have no fear, my Agents take lots of precautions; one of them is after all made of plant material.