Agreed, when it moved out of the funny it lost a fairly severe part of itself. When it strayed into serious mode it lost the quality that made it really...readable. The romance is very much overdone. It's made over and over again that it's some sort of super-love thing that really shouldn't be like that. The comedy's fairly good. It's unique and funny.
What would've been great is if the writer had made it a Crack Fic and not a Fixer Fic. The Crack Fic would've made it funny, because it would've been laughing at itself but still able to keep some of the storyline. And the OOC-ness wouldn't be anywhere near as bad because you'd be expecting it to be OOC. If the writer had based it in Crack Fic territory, I think it could've honestly been really good. Especially the romance moved into it. Everyone worshiped that romance. I felt like throwing up because of that romance. Two to three weeks does not make a lifelong relationship based solely off love. That's something else entirely.
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A Mixed Bag
Most of the pros and cons of this fic have already been covered by previous reviews. The fic is funny, although not extremely so; its explanation behind Harry doing impossible things is believable, though that doesn't justify every other character hero-worshiping him at every opportunity (complete with sappy and wooden dialogue in a lot of cases, sadly); and certain characters that were multi-dimensional and nuanced in canon were quickly transformed into more hero-worshiping mouthpieces for Harry's brilliance because of some very dodgy "realizations" (Snape, I'm looking at you). It is interesting (read: unbelievable) that, in the course of a single school year—in fact, in the course of a few months in that school year—Harry transforms from his canon self to a superhero simply because he got a girlfriend. It's worth a look, but the writing quality, plot, and characterization leave a lot to be desired.