Not as angry as the name would suggest.
Those last three especially. They made a big deal out of how well Crouch Jr. was able to impersonate Moody, I don't think Quirell's possession was all that obvious, and Umbridge was put there by the Ministry, thus he had no power over her.
Oh God! Natural light!
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Hell, I'm pretty sure Dumbledore was the first person to notice a character-breaking moment for Moody, and then he promptly went on a rescue-and-expose.
So, I'm not usually into Potterstuff, sticking to occasional interesting crossovers. One of them is Monster Lord. HP meets Monstergirl Encyclopedia. Yes, the one where all fauna (and some flora) is out to rape you.
It started nice, with fun humor, unexpected twists and more-than-some fanservice. No doubt in accordance with the source material. I've read four chapters or so, then dropped it for some reason or another. Most likely, got distracted by other fanfics. Doesn't matter, though. Got to reading it again, and I'd like to review.
So, it was all nice till chapter five. This "actually the true form" business is clearly BS, nothing more than an easy excuse to avoid the "how do I adjust to my new body" subplot. Also, it vaguely seems to be catering to some very specific fetish, probably in accordance with the source material. Then again, this isn't supposed to be a story about coming to terms with oneself after a radical change; but rather about too-powerful females who often loose their clothing if they even had any.
Lucius Malfoy's perspective is very interesting. Makes me wish for a fanfic like that, which would be entirely from his perspective. Of course, on one hand he's a discriminating purist, massive prick, et cetera - but he's also genuinely caring about his family. This is what puts the "Adorable" in the "Affably Evil". Also, "perfect family man" must be some kind of a fetish, to mesh better with the source material.
And lastly, the wand. That twist was honestly unexpected, and avoided one yin-yang related chiche, but stepped straight into another one. Unfortunately, I find the latter cliche much more annoying. But eh, I'm here not to talk about annoyingly overused literary devices. Besides, there's still some place for an unexpected twist. For example, Ron using both wands to cast Ultima on a certain Riddle, saving Alice in the nick of time. And then they would have a threesome with Hermione, in accordance with the source material.
Rather than smart, I'd prefer to be wise. It would let me be silly more often.
Idea: So the story's a bait-and-switch of the whole "Harry Potter is sent back in time after his apparent death in Deathly Hallows so he can do a bullshit Peggy Sue shtick where he solves everything and acts like a twat with no consequences."
So we have a story that looks like it follows that framework, but when it gets to the part where in these' stories it's the part where Harry manages to triumph over the evil Dumbledore, it's revealed that the whole thing is a hallucination because Harry's afraid of dying, so he or some other force is trying to lock him into a childish power fantasy, rather than letting go and growing up, which is what he needs to do in order to really defeat Voldemort.
Kinda like The Last Temptation of Christ.
Fanfiction I hate.
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To make that work I expect you'd need to get to the twist within the first chapter, or anyone who'd actually appreciate it will never get that far.
edited 1st Sep '14 5:49:12 PM by rikalous
Recently ran across a fic on spacebattles titled "The Seventh Horcrux
." In it, a rather different Voldemort's spell rebounds off of Harry, unintentionally transforming Harry into Voldemort's Seventh Horcrux. A few months later, Harry starts to get Voldemort's memories. And the Dursleys suffer for it. Then, evil Harry starts going to Hogwarts. Harry's sociopathy is played for humor, Harry and Hermione play off each other incredibly well, and a lot of it is a Voldemort that isn't nearly as sneaky as he thinks he is getting away with it anyway, often due to Dumbledore's obliviousness. Later, Ginny joins the group, having spent a year under the tutelage of Tom Riddle's diary, and she's only slightly less sociopathic than Harrymort himself. And then actual Voldemort revives himself, and Harrymort begins to regret making so many horcruxes bases off a three paragraph description in a book from the forbidden section of Hogwarts.
edited 1st Sep '14 6:01:52 PM by Hyp3rB14d3
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edited 1st Sep '14 9:50:30 PM by EvaUnit01
Idea: Somehow (Haven't decided the specifics yet), Harry and the Harrycrux (Harrymort?) come to terms with one another and unite against Voldie Prime. Probably would be a comedy.
Stupid, or really stupid?
edited 5th Sep '14 3:25:08 PM by Rem
Fire, air, water, earth...legend has it that when these four elements are gathered, they will form the fifth element...boron.
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Given the state of the Horcrux in Harry's head, I actually don't think it'd really make a significant difference.
I mean, look at that shriveled, pitiable thing...
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I suppose you could reason it is shriveled due to 16 years of putting up with Harry's mother protection.
The future of warfare in UC.
I would actually read it if the Horcrux-in-head has been corrupted by Harrymom's protection and isn't very Voldemort anymore. (Otherwise you kind of have the plot to Partially Kissed Hero, and if that statement fills you with crushing terror it indicates only you are still sane.)
Because the dude's not very big on power-sharing.
Nous restons ici.
It wasn't really the idea behind Partially Kissed Hero that was the problem, it was everything else.
Oh, yeah, forgot to mention that. Harrymort would be a good-guy. I'm not entirely sure how to pull that off, though. I'm leaning towards, "Still technically the same guy, but ten-or-so years in Harry's head have led to him reflecting on a lot of his beliefs and repenting." With a bit of, "He tried to manipulate his host at first, but Harry's earnest affection to the only person who cared (Probably serving as the first time anyone actually loved Voldemort, his cadaver of a mother aside) slowly corrupted Harrymort into thinking of the kid as a son," thrown in.
This, of course, working under the assumption that Volde could be redeemed, and that what he really wanted all this time was love.
Yeah, yeah. Gag all you want. Still, it's not like the guy's whole, "Worship me, mortals!" fetish couldn't be interpreted as, "I want people to care for me, but no matter how many followers I gain, I still feel empty inside!"
Meh. I don't care if it is cheesy. I'm doing it.
edited 5th Sep '14 9:07:27 PM by Rem
Fire, air, water, earth...legend has it that when these four elements are gathered, they will form the fifth element...boron.
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You could have Harrymort become a good guy in backstory without needing to make Voldemort Prime any less of a power-hungry sociopath. Say that a side effect of the love protection causes Harrymort to experience love for the first time one he's been split off and implanted in Harry's head. Naturally, it's like doing a line of pixie dust off a unicorn and he decides he wants more and fumbles his way over the years to at least being a better father figure than Vernon.
himitsu keisatsu
Remember: He doesn't need to be a good person to be likable, and you generally want likable more than you want good guy, on your Comedic Sociopath or Heroic Sociopath (Huh? Wasn't there a trope about this?). You can get away with making truly awful people the stars of your fics if you make them likable, and so long as there's someone around to steer them into a path that helps keep them from falling down the Complete Monster pit.
Generally, a lot of people identify with Harry, so you only really need to make the Horcrux be nice to Harry to get the grand majority of people to like him. Voldemort isn't above faking affection in order to manipulate Harry, and you can very easily have him Becoming the Mask over time, though whether it's an effect of the Momprotection, of Harry's own innate Power of Love affinity or what have you.
edited 5th Sep '14 9:40:17 PM by IAmNotCreativeEnough
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimari
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Heroic Sociopath got split into Heroic Comedic Sociopath and Sociopathic Hero.
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Apparently, due to trope decay... Does that mean that people were using Heroic Sociopath for comedic sociopaths?... Whatevs. Nowhere near as bad as some of the name changes...
Incidentally...
It was yet another normal day in Harry Potter's life. Wake up, go through his morning hygienic routine, wake up Ron, pull on Neville's feet to disentangle him from the sheets, put Seamus' dirty mags back in their proper place, disguise the bottle of rum he kept next to his bed, put Dean's ball back in his trunk and, to finish it up, put his dirty clothes in a neat pile for the house elves to pick up so they could take it to the wash without having to scour the room to find everything.
As soon as he was done with that, he left his room to get some breakfast in the Great Hall, which consisted of a warm, but not scalding hot, cup of tea, a few crumpets and a few slices of an apple that a house elf had cheerfully cut for him.
He nodded to himself, seeing as everything of his routine was in place, until he noticed something was amiss. "This is odd. Where is my copy of the Daily Prophet for this morning?" he asked, mostly to himself.
Just then, Colin Creevey came walking by.
"Rascal," Harry called, looking over at him. "Where is my Prophet?" he asked, simply.
"Well... I don't really know, but I can lend you mine, I guess?" Colin said, uncertainly.
"That should suffice, for the time being at least. I promise that I will make it up to you," Harry said, nodding. Colin handed Harry the copy of the Prophet that he himself was carrying, and Harry thanked him before returning to his seat.
"Oh no, Harry got a copy of the prophet somehow!" someone said, a voice Harry recognized as Hermione's, and which he promptly ignored.
"This is outrageous!" Harry exclaimed, standing up and slamming his copy of the prophet on the table, making everything set on it rattle for a moment. "It's unforgivable! A thousand deaths are not enough to punish these miscreants!" he yelled, clearly angry.
"Harry!" Hermione yelled, frowning and crossing her arms. "I know they're slandering you, but you're scaring the firsties!"
At this, Harry himself frowned.
"Seriously, I thought you were more mature than this, to overreact like that-" Hermione continued, but she cut herself off and blinked as Harry seemed to shove the paper in her face, with his right hand's pointer finger signalling at a specific part of it.
The part Harry was pointing at read "Harry Poter, the Boy Who Lived,", before it went on to insult and degrade Harry over his supposed cheating to get into the Tri Wizard tournament, and his supposed torrid love affair with Hermione. "They've misspelled my name, Hermione! I cannot allow this indignity to pass! I shall lodge a formal complaint with their editor, and get this fixed post haste!"
"... Did... Did that just happen?" Hermione asked herself, as she saw Harry casually walk out of her line of sight.
I have to find a way to work in an addiction to sardines in there somewhere. Possibly vampirism too.
edited 6th Sep '14 11:39:43 PM by IAmNotCreativeEnough
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimari
Hmm.
What effect, do you all think, Accio charming the moon would have on werewolves?
I mean...you know.
Before all life on earth is eliminated.
edited 8th Sep '14 6:22:56 PM by Rem
Fire, air, water, earth...legend has it that when these four elements are gathered, they will form the fifth element...boron.
himitsu keisatsu
That depends on what you think the summoning charm does.
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimari
People were using Heroic Sociopath as a synonym for Designated Hero and Moral Dissonance. For example, listing things like Eragon.
Fanfiction I hate.
Mad Scientist Wannabe
Did you just write a fanfic where Harry suddenly started acting like the Harry Puppet?
himitsu keisatsu
Goodness, no. That's actually inspired by Valvatorez.
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimari
Mad Scientist Wannabe
Because the puppet acts just like that.
Of course, don't you know anything about ALCHEMY?!- Twin clones of Ivan the Great
himitsu keisatsu
Purely by accident.
The idea is to get Harry as close to Ham Incarnate, also known as Valvatorez, as what would be logically possible.
Hm.
Why does it annoy me so much when fics completely miss the point of Neville's character development? I mean, it's such an universally present thing that it's honestly funny at times.
The amount of times in which Neville's been made special is countless. Hell, usually in Super Harry Harem fics Neville is given downgraded versions of the stuff given to the Self Insert Wearing Harry's Skin, such as a smaller harem and weaker (but usually still massive) powerups. To me, what's always made Neville likable, and later made him downright badass, is that he's not special. In any way, shape or form. He was born normal. Neville Longbottom isn't special because he was born better than anyone else, he's special because he's Neville fucking Longbottom and his balls are the size of basketballs.
edited 26th Sep '14 5:05:01 PM by IAmNotCreativeEnough
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimari