Arnold for Voldemort LOL

 

Rambo!Harry ditches his wand for a giant machete.

 

Maybe.

I've had this bunny floating around in the chaos that I call my brain for a while. Essentially, after the War, Harry becomes a Bounty Hunter/Guerilla/Government Agent/whatever, and we eventually see him tracking down some Death Eater scum in Vietnam... something like this...



... and slitting the gormless fucker's throat with said machete.

 

There is one of those, somewhere......It starts out as a HP/GW and then he starts banging Fleur and Bill's daughter by the end. If I remember correctly, he's the one you call in when you want many, many things to die with lots of property damage thrown in just to prove a point........

 

The Sylvester-Arnold rivalry shines through in: Half blood prince part 2; "time to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and I'm all outa gum"

 

Hmm, I'm in need of something to read so...

Could you provide a link please?

 

Isn't that one of Jeconais' stories?

 

Yep, it is one of Jeconais's. Here's the link anyways..........
http://jeconais.fanficauthors.net/These_Dreams/These_Dreams.php

 

This story has been updated. The Fleur/Harry relationship is shaping up nicely, and hopefully I will be able to stave off the yawns I feel coming due to the over-used (albeit modified) evil!Weasley plotline.

The best part about this story is Harry's believable transition from a whiney fifth year into a likeable sixth year. The writing is, for the most part, quality, and updates seem to consistent (although the author says that, thanks to university, updates will be once a month instead of once a week).

All in all, one of the top five WIPs out there.

Recommended. 4.5/5

EDIT: For the record, I'm an idiot. This entire page was talk about Rambo!Harry and I didn't notice that others had debated the story update already. Oops. Mahbad.

 

Hah! You suck!

 

Updated with a good all round chapter. 4/5.

 

Updated with some sorta filler thing, according to Scary.

Speculation:

Spoiler

I just got to the pitcher thing, and I can't figure out whether or not you're trying to make me suspicious on purpose so I focus on the wrong thing. That whole scene screamed 'redhead doing bad things to the juice.' and it seemed as though Parvati was trying to warn him.

And at the end of the scene: "Everyone makes a mistake."

Maybe I'm thinking too much.

 

Bah....It was an okay filler-chapter. A bit tedious at points but decent anyways.

 

Recently I've been finding each chapter of this fic harder and harder to read. I actually had to stop several times and go read something else for a bit before I could continue for this chapter.

 

I liked it. Sixth year has been one of my favorite stories for a while now. To be honest, Scary's strong point is character interaction. I think he's at his best when writing that.

 

I stopped reading this a while back - I during a scene where Harry was standing on his soapbox and recounting every minute detail of his life to the gathered DA, with a frankly disturbing amount of embellish. I can't read a fic which main character is a self-possessed arrogant pounce whose shit everybody buys without a pause. That's why I dropped that Harry in America fic, that's why I dropped this.

 

According to what I read, he just tells them the harder truths about his life mostly concerning Voldemort. What did you expect him to do? Go into the room wands blazing and force them all to help him fight against a violent, intelligent, and powerful dark wizard? Arrogance my ass... They don't need to buy a lot of the shit anyway, as most of it was all over the Prophet. He just told them the finer details.
And I believe the correct term is "ponce" not "pounce".

 

No one is gonna enter the war because some guy had to sleep in the cupboard or whatever. They should do it because they think it's right or agree or disagree with certain philosophy, or even because they themselves are touched by death and destruction. I don't see how Harry's monologue about his supposedly sad fate could convince anyone to attend his stupid little club, not to mention dedicate themselves to fighting a war.

The way Harry came out was like everything bad Snape ever said about him - presumptuous attention seeker who enjoys basking in the glory of his undeserved flame and receiving credit for other people's work (Lily's sacrifice, Lily's protection from PS, Fawkes' and Sorting Hat's help from COS, Dumbledore's plan with the time turner, Moody's and Dobby's help during the Triwizard Tournament, Hermione's idea about the DA etc...). Even that wouldn't be so bad if at least SOMEONE pointed this out or made fun of him, or if the author painted this picture from a humorous perspective. But the way everyone just glorified him and his exploits and bought every pound of shit that spewed out of his mouth was just too much.

Some tendency to look at the past through rose-tinted glasses is fine, but this blatant rewriting of the history only served to piss me off and alienate me from the main character of this story. If everything else was great, I would have probably stuck by it. But a slow, rather unimaginative in-canon story with an unsympathetic main character held too little appeal for me to keep my attention.

 

1. Its majorly DUH that they disagree with Voldemort's philosophies. Heck, a solid 85% or so of people disagree with those. Most are too scared to do anything against him though.
2. Harry's "stupid little monologue" was not a sob-story about his life, as you seem to think it. It was just the full truth behind some events of the last couple of years in the main, as a lot of it was connected to Voldemort. As were his living arrangements, and the fact that he had to go back there every summer.
3. In PS, he was an 11 year old who walked headlong to fight against a dark wizard who was about twice as old and experienced as him, backed by a murderous dark lord. In CoS, he went alone against a 50 foot long snake that could kill with a look, just to save his best friend's sister and probably knowing he was going to get his ass-kicked. He tried anyway. In PoA, he first tried to save his best friend from a man who he thought was more than capable of killing them all, then fended off a 100 dementors. In GoF, he got lucky twice, but the third time he worked like shit, opted to share the final prize to be fair. He got lucky against Voldemort, but while running he still grabbed Cedric's body rather than just run his ass out to the portkey. In OoTP, he willingly stood up against the crap he faced from a Government he had tried to warn, and people he tried to help just by telling them the truth. He got tortured and still didn't stop. Then, he went off to one of the most secure departments in the Ministry to save a man he had known for only 2 years or so. He did get tricked, admittedly. Then when they were trapped, he within seconds cobbled together a plan to at least give them a fighting chance.
After all this, you tell me he's an undeserving attention seeking prat basking in other people's glory? Right, I get you.
4. Apparently, you didn't read my post properly. I did mention that most of what he told them HAS been printed/guessed by the Prophet. He just told them the uneditted version.
5. Its not blatant rewriting, its a different interpretation. You have yours, he has his, I have mine. Maybe we don't agree on it, but that doesn't make it absolute bullshit.
6. Most of the best fanfics out there are often the slowest, because it takes time to build a story properly. Read Years of Rebellion or Lessons or something to understand what I mean. Standard Indy-Harry! super-training look-me-and-I'll-kill-you!Harry bullshit stories don't exactly look promising next to a slow, good quality, and contrary to what you might think, imaginative story.

 

I accidentally uploaded the wrong file when I posted the chapter last night. That one was pre-beta'd. I've fixed it. Not much changes except the errors are gone (except perhaps the odd one or two) and a few wordings were changed.

The pitcher thing with Ginny? Completely innocent. That was just to throw people off. This has nothing to do with potions.

IP - That scene was not intended to make Harry sound arrogant or anything. His purpose was to inform the others of what happened in his life, leading to his decision and hoping that they would grasp what his reality is like, and theirs if they chose to join him. Admittedly, I focused too much on the story and not enough on the new characters and it was a flop.

Yeah, pacing is quite slow. It is speeding up after chapter nineteen as focus shifts to setting up events outside of Hogwarts, discovering why each character will chose the choice they make when Harry leaves, and dealing with Malfoy. But till then, it is rather slow.