Vercalos
Since: Aug, 2009
02/11/2015 00:00:00
I would say that Dumbedore was OO Cly thick, but for all that, I don't think that the Dursley's thrashing Harry for perceived faults is all that out of character. Vernon never got over his hatred of magic, and while Dudley eventually grew out of it, when he was younger the books made a note that Dudley and his gang would chase and beat Harry whenever they were able to catch him. Plus, Dursley's getting a teacher fired for harassment after one tries to help Harry seems entirely in character for Vernon.
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They wasted a perfectly good plot
The premise of the fic is good. Too bad the actual fic itself starts off promising and goes bad very quickly.
Harry growing up with Luna would have been a great concept if the story wasn't so anxious to move on to the shipping part of Harry/Luna. As it is, the whole thing got Strangled By The Red String, or in this case, the Blue Magic Strings, so badly it's almost comparable to what people complain about canon Harry/Ginny. The story throws out any required foreshadowing, character development and set up in its rush to get Harry and Luna together, and relies on a lot of contrived details that directly contradict canon.
There are some mildly interesting characterizations of Mc Gonagall and Selene Lovegood, but the fact the story falls into almost-cartoonish character bashing of the OOC Dursleys and OOC Dumbledore rather ruins it. I can't say I liked this fic, although I really wanted to when I started it.