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nonjon · Jun 27, 2006

I'm feeling lazy at the moment, so rather than paraphrase my own comments here, I'm just going to paste the review I left for Rorschach's Blot.

I suspect you'll disappoint a few people with this ending but such is life. Six thousand some odd reviews can't be wrong. You've written a hell of a fun ride here. Looking forward to further adventures.

If you want critical analysis, I'll say some of these last few chapters seemed a bit forced. I think the big shift where the fic went from pretty much pure humor into sort of a slightly angsty humor was when Harry became aware of people's impression of Mr. Black. In the beginning where he was just 'lucking' his way through things, completely unaware that they were assuming him to be much smarter than he really was, it had a much more light-hearted fun tone. Even the deaths were comical. Somewhere in the last dozen or so chapters it seemed to sort of turn a corner and it was almost melancholy humor. For example, in the last little omake you wrote about the guy robbing the bar Harry was drinking at. The kind of sadder Harry reluctantly saves the day chucking the bottle at him. The earlier happier one would've been unaware the bar was being robbed and maybe accidentally chucked a bottle over his shoulder without looking. Essentially the same events, it's just a little easier to laugh at unintentional foiling than intentional violent tendencies. Both work, but I think it's the happier stuff that attracted most of the attention and that people respond better too. The Harry-Mr. Black at the end was a far cry from the Man Who Knew Too Little in the start of the fic. I wonder how much of Harry's transformation of sorts was your own irritation at the hassle of writing 50 chapters here as people bug you for more.

Anyways, congratulations on finishing such a mammoth landmark fic. It really is one of the most popular ones ever. And that's something to be damn proud of. I've said it before, but I thank you for your inspiration too. My own humor trilogy I'm quite proud of and it was this fic among others that inspired it's start. Good luck on your future endeavors and I'll be keeping my eyes open for more.
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Pretend I paraphrased that into an argument for why the last few chapters were lacking, but at the same time against all those bashing the fic unmercifully.

Litha Riddle · Jun 27, 2006

I agree totally with your pretend paraphrased argument nonjon.

I couldn't put it better myself, because I really liked the Magoo type humour.
The last lot of chapters is similar to my dark humour, so managed to read and enjoy them. Although the abrupt change does make it seem forced, but that may possibly have come from canon changing so much.

Litha

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