Title: The Power
Author: DarthBill
Rating: M
Genre: General (complete AU)
Pairings: None (probably H/Hr/R triangle)
Chapters: 25
Words: 48,757
Updated: August 25, 2009
Published: January 26, 2006
Status: Complete
Summary: This is an AU story that will contain all 7 years. Harry is smarter and has some new abilities. He will probably go through several girl friends.
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2772010/1/

This is another complete all-out AU - meaning that the author twists Harry's character a little and then pulls him through the original HP books.

In this instance, Harry has a strange ability to consume magic, making him tired and letargic when around Dursleys (non-abusive kind) but kinda sugar-high hyper when at Hogwarts. Since he doesn't need much sleep, he spends most of his nights going through books like candy, thus making himself smarter than that little shit from the canon.

Other than this, there are ABSOLUTELY NO CHANGES from the canon storyline at all - the whole plot is simply copied from the JKR's books, in scene by scene kind of way. Harry may solve some problem differently and act smarter (like blowing the troll's head off and disliking Ronald from the start), but the final results are always the same, probably so that the author wouldn't have to strain his brain and invent something original for a change.

The only redeeming thing is that the author is skipping through all the unchanged scenes, making the whole copycat thing relatively bareable.

So in general, this is an interesting twist to Harry's character, but the plot is sadly lacking in originality - not much more than in a bunch of other AU's, but still... Like this, it's an interesting and relaxing read, but it could have been much better.


Checked by Minion, July 28, 2013

 

Bah it was boring. The power was different and cool but dear lord this guy is unoriginal. I think you should have put it in the Unrecommended Fanfic thread.

Nice idea but everything else suxs.

 

No, the crappy plot didn't bother me much coz everything is happening so fast. I mean, it's barely 20K and he's already into the second year.

It's kinda like that Roskbyte's Hellraiser crossover - maybe he's just building it up towards some interesting conclusion.

 

Meh this story is ok. The magic thing going on with Harry was intereting, but thats pretty much the only thing I liked. I hope that DarthBill would change the plotlines - at least a little bit. BTW I"ll keep watch on this one.

 

It's well written and all but … for lack of a better word, unoriginal.

 

I dunno...i liked it.

I liked the way he wrote Harry, i thought that was rather well done. Harry dislikes Ron, which is a plus, but it is a bit putting off that he doesn't go all out and actually tell Ron to piss off.

I've been following this fic on FicWad, and i have to say, i liked it. Sure, it follows canon, but the way he's writing it, i'd much rather read the way HE writes Book 7 than the way JKR writes it.

He is a good author, you have to admit...even if he's using a well worn idea, he's doing it without grammatical mistakes or typos, and it's generally interesting.

I guess, my point is that if someone who didn't read the books read this, they would like it a lot more. Featuring Independant!Smart!Not-idiot!Harry is also good.

I just hope he stays away from Ginny in canon...it does say that he'll go through a bunch of ships, but i will be pissed off if it ends up as H/G, H/Hr or any irritating pairing like that.

 

I thought it was OK, if a bit rushed, until he met Hermione on the hogwarts express and then decided to be her best friend. He dropped Ron, so why can't he drop Hermione as well?

 

DarthBill is on this site so you can prob ask him wats going on. And since he iIS on this site, I think no Ginny is a sure bet.

 

Meh, I think Hermione's character has potential as long as you tone her down a bit, which is exactly what I intend to do. Also, the further it gets from the beginning, the further it gets from canon. It may not be really noticable now, but it will.

 

And Ginny will definitely not be a love interest of Harry's. Though, she will definitely be mentioned a few times. :twisted:

 

Your last two posts are within three minutes of each-other. Please use the edit function instead of double posting. I can understand if it's an hour or more after your post, but not just to add a tidbit to your last post.

 

Just got around to reading this, DarthBill, and it's...silly. But fun.

It moves along so fast that it often reads like a summary rather than a story, but there's enough humor and hi-jinks along the way that it remains mostly entertaining. You made no attempt at characterization, but I gather that was intentional.

This is my favorite line in the whole story:

LOL. Perfect delivery on the last line.

3/5

 

Thanks. I pretty much gave up on this story two years ago. I only finished it because I didn't want to leave it open.