Title: The Unforgettable Fire
Author: The Labris
Rating: M
Genre: Romance/Action/Adventure
DLP Category: General/AU (I'm not sure on which one would fit better)
Pairing: Draco/Ginny, eventually Harry/Ginny (only last chapter)
Status: Complete
Summary: It is her first year and Ginny becomes the first Weasley ever sorted in Slytherin. What is a Gryffindor at heart to do when trapped in the snake’s layer? Well, when in Rome, do what the Roman’s do.
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1232217/1/The_Unforgettable_Fire

I know how I risk by posting it and still I post.

This story is complete AU and Ginny-centric. Ginny is nothing like in canon. There's nothing in this Ginny that you hate, she's not fangirl and if you give this story a chance you may love it, I did.

I hope that you won't give low ratings without reading it (or just skimming through first chapter), just because you hate Ginny. In this story Ginny Weasley is a Slytherin girl (like Daphne for ex), you don't know her, at all, just because some idiot wrote fanfiction where she's damb fangirl, doesn't mean that her characterization is bad in this fic too.

The story gets better with time, please give this a chance and if still you don't like it, tell me why.

 

I read this a while back, but never got to the end. You could say I got bored.

While Ginny's characterization in this case is well done, and certainly it is distant from the typical fangirl "slutty" and bossy person she's always made by most writers, it still retains the "Mary-sueness" of them. As always, Ginny is a rebel and independent girl who's always paired with the hot guy in her house. Her portrayal as a somewhat tragic hero is not original either, and is typical of those female writers who identify themselves with the character and want her to be always the one who is needed to save the day.

Still, the quality of the writing is above most fics and the dramatic twists and turns add a little bonus to the mix, but again, I found it to be the same old portray with a brand new "cover", so it doesn't do it for me.

2/5 imo.

 

Which, sadly, isn't saying much.

I read the first chapter, and I thought there were good ideas there. Re-writing Ginny's character from scratch is, after all, the best way to make of her a likeable character. A Slytherin!Ginny would be interesting to write about, if done correctly. So points for the idea (and for spelling "naïve" correctly, too).

That said, I hated the style of writing. There were no glaring grammar/spelling mistakes, but the constant switch in points of view was completely unnecessary, not to mention painful to read; the flash-backs were clumsily done at best, the writing bland in general. A few things annoyed me here and there, like Ginny writing poetry or angsting over and over again about her loneliness (okay, she's in a tough situation, we got it the first time).

Malfoy coming to sneer at her every evening struck me as OOC, since he's bound to get weary of his own game after a while; also, I got the feeling that this bit was either too developed or not enough. If it was important, as the pairing suggests, it should have been more emphasized: Ginny should have thought a bit about it, expanded on what his intentions possibly were. If not, the author might have wanted to spare us. Such as it is, this passage is like a parasite on the chapter.

The one thing I really liked was the description of the Ginny/Riddle relationship. It was quite nicely done, despite the ever-dull writing style, and I liked the final sentence. This is the kind of chapter I would expect to be followed by an AU fiction focusing on a Ginny-Voldemort interaction.

I've taken a look at the next chapter, and it's written in the same style full of flashbacks and random changing of points of view. So I'll guess I'll stop there.

I give this first chapter a 2/5, but won't give a rating to the whole story, for obvious reasons.

 

I took a gander at this ages ago... stopped, though... prolly out of boredum, but more likely that I lost the link.

3/5. Ginny is still too mary-sue-ish for me.

 

I agree with both Tinn Tam and TMN, it has a decent characterization of Ginny, but she still has that "I'm a female author who wants to read about a super-awesome female character because I can't relate to Harry Potter's stupid male-ness" feel about her.

Nothing spectacular about the round about, very confusing writing. She should have either gone totally limited third person from Ginny's POV, or she should have just written it in omnipotent third person. The switching is just barely above doing the whole omnipotent/limited third person mesh so many fanfic authors use. And it's more annoying too.

2/5; I personally liked this Ginny less than the normal one. Reminds me of four or five years ago when I was still wading through crappy fangirl written inu-yasha fics looking for one that actually had Inu-Yasha as a badass main character, and not Kagome as the "I'm rebellious and strangely strong female who saves the supposedly stronger males" . ::shiver::

 

o.o

Those exist? I only remember one, vaguely. Dun remember the name but it started out kinda meh, got pwn in the middle with a side of almost Loyal and dedicated Fem!Servant!OC/Inu , and when I stopped reading it turned Kag/Inu. >_>

Something on the order of Kag falling for the same shit Kikyo did, they sealed him in that black pearl thing, she goes back to her time, brings the pearl back, releases him fine and dandy with a nice side of evilyness, he goes and much slaughtering of the wolves, then started to the forgiveness and I quit. >_>

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A few Badass!Inu's exist. I found em too. The problem is it's about a 6:100,000 fic ratio.

 

Quoted for truth, but for HP instead of Inuyasha.

 

For everything with a male main character. Fan Girls love it when the "weaker" female side kick is suddenly three times as powerful as the main character even though she has shown no aptitude for fighting at all and has to have her ass saved over and over again before...

Sorry for the small rant... the Inu-Yasha thing really pissed me off. The author made an awesome character and world, and then fucked it up by having no plot whatsoever. It's practically made for fanfiction.

ahem... Sorry...

 

Well I went out on a limb, gave the story a try, only to find myself face-first on the ground after falling from said limb.
The writing was not for me. The point of view changes were confusing, and constantly hearing Ginny talk to herself got annoying. The story was decent if you ignore your repulsion for the red haired rodent but like the burrito you had at 3am, it can't be ignored for long.
I proudly made it to chapter 7 before calling it, but in case anyone is thinking of venturing into this... fic, hers an excerpt from the 6th chapter.

2/5 for decent grammar and for at least following through with an idea

 

This was different from canon Ginny, but that doesn't make it any better. It was like reading a whole story about the fantastic MarySue author... I mean character, who is beautiful enough to seduce anyone she sees, according to Snape "The most powerful witch he has ever known", and is incredibly intelligent, and prophesised to beat the Dark Lord.

Just so we all know it actually is Harry Potter, the author called her Ginny Weasley and made Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter drool over her, but it still isn't any better than focussing the story around Princess Xiphalia Moonbeam Twinkletoes who comes to Hogwarts. This story is full of fail. 1/5