Title: Secure Containment of Prophecy: Case Number 368
Author: AngrySlytherine
Rating: K+
Genre: Parody/Humor
Chapters: 1
Words: 850
Published: Oct 14, 2013
Status: Complete
Library Category: Humor

Summary: A post-Hogwarts / SCP (Secure, Contain, Protect) crossover. A lost prophecy is recovered after the fact. Undersecretary Hermione Granger is not happy. One-shot.


I'm a fan of the SCP Foundation and while this oneshot doesn't have a lot to do with it, I still enjoyed it because it's pretty funny,

Spoiler

especially Harry's reaction at the end.

It could have been a little longer, but the joke still works.

4/5

 

Meh.

Brevity is good and everything, and everything drove towards the joke, which was good, but it was fairly predictable. It would have been funnier if the recovered prophecy was even more explicit and not couched in "prophecy-speak."

The SCP crossover isn't even really a thing. It's not written in the SCP style, and there's nothing in it that couldn't be straight canon.

I'd say 3/5, but that feels pretty generous. Generally a Humor fic needs to at least make me crack a smile, and I kind of did at Harry's line at the end, for a second.

Meh.

 

I did laugh heartily at the two final memos, so on the one hand it's a definite success. On the other hand, it's only 850 words long, and a good third of that word count is taken up with lists of names, memo headings etc. I just don't think there's enough to it to put it in the Library; the joke would have to be an absolute masterpiece to qualify, and funny though it is, it's not quite at classic status.

3/5

 

Not much there. It's more of a drabble than a one-shot. Reminds me of some of the omakes in Odd Ideas.

 

Exactly what the Humor section of the Library needs. If we're honest, much worse stuff(shit) than this has already been admitted.

5/5. Short, to the point, and funny. Doesn't drag.

 

Don't know about the crossover but the fic itself was nice. Last three words were too awesome...

4/5.

 

Not really an SCP crossover, but it did what it was supposed to do.

I laughed at the end. 5/5.

 

I can't help but feel that if this is the height of humour then we're in a pretty low place. It's 850 words. It has a single punchline.

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"Seriously you guys, Seriously?"

That really isn't going to make anyone's list of 'Most witty punchlines ever'.

I'd rate it 2.5 but I'm going to round it up to 3 because I'm feeling supremely charitable this morning. To quote Newcomb, "Meh."

 

And you really enjoy spoiling even that single punchline in an 850 words story? Really man, put some spoiler tags...nothing too difficult.

 

I don't know what Secure Contain Protect is but I do know what this fic is. Uninteresting, uninspired and unfunny.

1/5

 

If you don't understand the Foundation and don't get it's jokes, maybe you shouldn't be rating it?

It's like me going into ASoIAF recommendation and rating it one star because I have no clue what's going on because I haven't seen/read ASoIAF.

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I read this ages ago and could have sworn it was already in the Library. Still, if it's not I'm giving it a 3.5/5 rounded up to 4/5.

 

What is the Joke I missed out on by not being familiar with the crossover? All the other reviews seem to indicate that the only joke is "seriously guys" which doesn't really count as a joke.

I get what the fic is aiming for here but I think they missed their mark and unfortunately there is nothing else, there is nothing resembling a story here. It's 200 words of verbal vomit and some email headers.

I just reread it to be sure I wasn't missing anything. Nope; 1/5.

Edit: What is asoiaf?

 

It's not crossover. It's a shout-out. And a really boring one. Instead of SCP it could be done in Laundry Files kind of a way, with the Ministry's bureaucracy being Kafka-esque behemoth of insane wizarding laws and traditions.

3/5 for proper English and its brevity.

A Song of Ice and Fire.

 

1/5. I was not amused.

 

I found it sort of funny, not a bad time waster.

3/5

 

I laughed.