Warrior Drgn Mage: If you choose one Harry Potter Fan Fic to read, I recommend this one. In addition to the things that my fellow tropers have said, I would like to add how much good No FP Harry has done for Luna and Neville. There are others that Harry has helped but these two are the ones he has helped the most. To balance this out Harry has made somethings much worse. Namely his treatment and actions towards Professor Severus Snape and Draco Malfoy. For further balancing, we have Harry's relationship with Dumbledore and Mc Gonagall. Harry's relationship with the former is... strained...at best, particularly in Harry's second year. Instead of being close to the Headmaster, Harry's 'staff mentor' seems to be Mc Gonagall. This idea seems to be based mainly on Harry's conviction that her stern facade is just a front as well as the fond memory of Mc Gonagall facing Umbridge down in defense of Harry becoming an Auror in Oot P.
Pyrix: While I would recommend this Snape seems a tad out of character in his anger, being almost over the top, such as threatening to snap Hermione's wand for being muggleborn.
Some of this is because the fic was started just after HBP came out, but even so, some of Snape's actions border on Flanderization or just plain Character Bashing.
Silver Gryphon 8: Almost better than the books themselves, from my view. Brilliant work, but really slow on the updating front because the author is juggling a couple other series and a real-life writing gig.
Alfa 290: Extremely well written, however it is agonizingly slow on to update. Best guess is that the next chapter will materialize sometime in late 2014.
Anon: I agree with the above poster in that Snape is so out of character it instantly broke my immersion. Even if it does run on the premise that he's an evil death eater, that doesn't excuse making him stupid about it, he's a spy for christ's sake. You can tell a lot about a fanfic author by how they treat their least favourite character, and this kind of speaks volumes.
Gozer: I also couldn't get past the author's Flanderization of Snape, in particular making him a complete moron. He's my favorite character in the books, so any fic that bashes him ruins it as far as I'm concerned.
Moving comments to reviews pt 3
Warrior Drgn Mage: If you choose one Harry Potter Fan Fic to read, I recommend this one. In addition to the things that my fellow tropers have said, I would like to add how much good No FP Harry has done for Luna and Neville. There are others that Harry has helped but these two are the ones he has helped the most. To balance this out Harry has made somethings much worse. Namely his treatment and actions towards Professor Severus Snape and Draco Malfoy. For further balancing, we have Harry's relationship with Dumbledore and Mc Gonagall. Harry's relationship with the former is... strained...at best, particularly in Harry's second year. Instead of being close to the Headmaster, Harry's 'staff mentor' seems to be Mc Gonagall. This idea seems to be based mainly on Harry's conviction that her stern facade is just a front as well as the fond memory of Mc Gonagall facing Umbridge down in defense of Harry becoming an Auror in Oot P.
Pyrix: While I would recommend this Snape seems a tad out of character in his anger, being almost over the top, such as threatening to snap Hermione's wand for being muggleborn. Some of this is because the fic was started just after HBP came out, but even so, some of Snape's actions border on Flanderization or just plain Character Bashing.
Silver Gryphon 8: Almost better than the books themselves, from my view. Brilliant work, but really slow on the updating front because the author is juggling a couple other series and a real-life writing gig.
Alfa 290: Extremely well written, however it is agonizingly slow on to update. Best guess is that the next chapter will materialize sometime in late 2014.
Anon: I agree with the above poster in that Snape is so out of character it instantly broke my immersion. Even if it does run on the premise that he's an evil death eater, that doesn't excuse making him stupid about it, he's a spy for christ's sake. You can tell a lot about a fanfic author by how they treat their least favourite character, and this kind of speaks volumes.
Gozer: I also couldn't get past the author's Flanderization of Snape, in particular making him a complete moron. He's my favorite character in the books, so any fic that bashes him ruins it as far as I'm concerned.