I hate it when in fics people start using strange names for their characters.
You know, this typical shit such as Shadow, Raven, Bolt etc. But the most irking is usage of names that no normal people would use to name their children. For example:

Who the fuck names their kid Lucifer? Not only it is retarded and a quick way into mental asylum, but the more religious folks might burn the offenders [parents & Satan's spawn] on a stake.
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One more thing - swords.
I like swords. They are one of the most important items in fantasy genre (and frankly a fantasy book without a sword is not an fantasy book).
But, for God sake - if Harry have to use a sword, so give him an European sword/sabre and not some Oriental and/or Asian crap.

 

Well I haven't been able to find one.
Another peeve is Harry going back to the Founders Era.
With only two exceptions the farthest Harry has ever travelled back in my stories is about eighty years, and the two stories in question were some of my first works.
edit:
Hey Franki have to agree to an extent the giving Harry a katana is annoying, though I think their should be exceptions depending.

 

I don't like the stories where Harry undergoes an overnight transformation from being an awkward, timid, pale, short, and skinny pale kid, and he turns into a confident Greek Sex God that's hung like a horse.

 

I don't even bother to change Harry's skin tone, to tell the truth.

 

A peeve:
Really Poor operational security after the second Voldemort war really kicks off. Those Marked DE who managed to stay out of Azkaban the first time are supposed to be smart and sophisticated. WHY would they be discussing raids and murder while sitting in a booth at the Leaky Cauldron?

 

Mein Gott, some one was actually stupid enough to write that?

 

I wonder what the consequences of severing a soul bond are?

If someone were to go "snip", Ginny might die from the backlash, while Harry is protected by the prophecy.

 

Maybe all the fangirls will die from shock.

 

I'd love to see just one fic where he's the tarrasque. That fucker is hard to kill and totally not worth it.

My DM used to resurrect it whenever our mage or cleric got too cocky in the epic game. Worst BBEG ever was a pissant little 18 lvl necromancer, kept the tarrasque's body out front of his place and whenever we showed up he'd res the fucker. We'd waste time and XP (wish is the only way to kill it) putting it down and he was right there with a readied "raise dead". Even with level drain from being unkilled, that regen just doesn't fucking die! And give it a week, it will have killed enough people to be back to full strength. We finally had to use the "genesis" spell (waste another 5000XP, plus the 5000 needed to kill it in the first place) to create an entirely new plane to hold the body in and seal it away.

 

The giving Harry uber-many abilities.
Excalibur, Harry is not King Arthur, nor is he King Arthur's decendant, the guy did bang his sister after all.
Also most anything having to do with Merlin, or Morgana. Or the Founders.
Or Harry being the son of any one other than James, especially Snivellus or Tom.

 

Leaving Harry free to travel to Tahiti and create his island harem, and develop his multi-billion dollar porn industry.

 

Let me go borrow the Fates' sheers.
Any LOTR crossover that is slash, there is nothing in Lord of the Rings to support slash, and any support for HP comes from the piece of shit she called Deathly Hallows, and that was Dumbledore not Harry.

 

I can just imagine the first person trying to tell the wizarding world that Harry has a porn company.

 

It would be like the poor first guy who had to report the duck-billed platypus to the British Science Society...

 

That would be good.
Any story that has Hermione suddenly turn into a horny drop dead, double D babe. She's big toothed, book loving bushy haired, bossy know it all.

 

Methinks it's time to put this particular thread to bed. Then smother it to death!

 

My bad, doc.
Well everyone has mentioned a good bit of things from muggles. dont think any one has brought up cars though, if Harry inheirits a car, a really nice car, it better be from the evans side of the family who damn well better be muggles.

 

One I completely forgot. Two words: Golden Trio

I'm pretty sure Harry/Ron/Hermione are never called or referred to as the Golden Trio in canon. It seems like it's a fanon creation that caught on, and now everyone and their mother's fic has Golden Trio in it.

Well fuck the Golden Trio. What a stupid ass name. Not only am I against Harry being bff with Ron and Hermione in the first place, if you do have Harry keep Ron and Hermione as his best friends in your fic, fucking don't call them the Golden Trio.

If I see this one more time I might just start killing people.

 

IIRC they're referred to as just the "Trio" in the books. I guess its a fandom thing that's taken on a mind of its own - like Sirius' will reading always being at Gringotts.

But yeah, I hate it too.

 

You know what I hate? what I really really frakking hate?

The invariable "Harry goes into the Room of Requirement/ His brand new trunk and uses some form of time alteration to train for YEARS, then come out and marries Sue"