Title: Royal Flush
Author: Lansydyr
Rating: M (for language)
Genre: Romance
DLP Category: Romance
Pairings: Harry/Hermione
Status: WIP (16 chapters, 50,397 words)
Summary: Nine years after Harry Potter disappears from the Wizarding World, Hermione thinks she found a clue to his location. She travels halfway around the world, but is unprepared for what she finds. Rated M for language
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3216538/1/Royal_Flush

The title caught my eye, and after reading the first seven chapters I decided that it was DLP worthy. It's a fairly well-written, quick read with a slightly interesting backstory that develops quickly.

Basically, Harry jumps ship after having to deal with the publicity post-Voldemort, and nine years later Hermione finds him as a wealthy bachelor in Las Vegas. So far (I'm halfway through) it's just been the story of their lives up to this point and the introduction of one or two OCs, and foreshadowing of a confrontation with everyone's favorite asshole, Draco Malfoy.

Downfalls: It's fluffy. It's outside of what we know as the Harry Potter world. The premise is pretty hard to believe.

Still, the story kept my attention and it's worth glancing at. If I had to put a number on it, I'd say it's a 4/5 just for the enjoyability factor.

 

Link?...........

AH yes i remember this from a while ago, i thought it was abandoned good to see it still a WIP.

A while ago i would have given this a 5/5 but now i think the fic it only worth a 3/5, it's nothing special anymore a bit fluffy at time's but still a good read if you have nothing better to do.

 

The googles do nothing!

Edit: Averis copypasta has spelling errors.

http://www.fanfiction.net/u/902772/Lansydyr

Yak.

 

I have read this quite a long time ago and it was an alright, not spectacular or crap, but alright story.

I didn't like how easily Harry and Hermione got together. They had not talked to each other for nine years and suddenly there is sexual tension and then they're together? It took a motorbike ride to LA for that to happen. We didn't get any dialogue. They went, had a random talk with an OC waitress and were alluded to shopping. After that, the two of them returned to Vegas and were together. Weird.

Beyond that, the part with Malfoy was the same. Alright, not spectacular or crap, just alright.

My vote is 3/5 and naught more, unless it drastically improves now that Harry is back in England.

 

ROFL. Sorry everyone. I passed out right after I posted that.

Thanks for hooking it up, yak.

 

No probs. Just don't expect me to read it. Las Vegas + fluff is outside of my normal range of HP fanfic.

Yak.

 

Imma hafta go with Yak on this one. Not anywhere inside of the range of Hpff that I wanna read lol

 

This is last time I read a story part of the way through before posting it--it's a decent story, but like scaryisntit noted, the way Harry and Hermione became an item is sketchy at best, and retarded at worst.

Some authors can write well, but don't have any power behind what they're writing. It seems this author is one of those.

I think it's still good enough for the Trash Bin though, and Harry/Hermione shippers will probably enjoy it.

 

Good thing I have arrived, then.

Anyway, I have read this, it's even in my Favourites, but really it's not all that great. The concept I like, but the execution...

It would have been better if Lansydyr had kept them in Vegas longer; instead, it turns into the usual "That Mudblood Bitch stole Harry from me!" Post-Hogwarts story.

3.5/5.

 

Read this story a while back, it been updated since then. When i first read it i thought it was decent, but after reading though alot of the stories in the library here... well lets just say that for a story to be labeled 'great', the bar has risen.

Im not interested in reading another, like the doc said, "That Mudblood bitch stole my Harry" story....

so... 3/5

 

Edited the first post and thread title to make sure the author's name is spelled right and to add a link to the fic.

I read this one way back. But my interest was in the vegas + poker aspects of the original plot. Suffice it to say, when it became a completely typical and fluffy romance with an average "action" scene my interest waned. I've not read the latest chapters, but it's fics with romance like this that make it hard for me to stomach even good H/Hr stories anymore.

It's not awful and it started with a hook to get me into it. Unfortunately that serves no purpose whatsoever and wasn't really handled all that well. 3/5 because what I read a while back seemed Recycle Bin-worthy, but it's probably more telling that I'm not sure if I even want to read any of the latest chapters.

 

nonjon you don't... trust me... the poker and Vegas thing was what also caught my eye back when it was first started, followed it for a bit but when HHr went back to Briton it turned into you classic HHr story with a po'd ginslut.

 

poker is for real life, not fanfiction. Period.
The only redeeming part of the story was his choice of motorcycle - which is a surprisingly quality machine, even if it is American. Everything else was disappointingly unoriginal. 2/5

 

That's so not true. Not even going to read this piece of shit but I'm going to comment on Justblaise's poker comment.

You haven't read Ian Flemming. The only thing Ian Flemming could ever write well about was card games or any of the games you could find in a country club or casino.

Baccarat. Poker. Bridge. He'd have you sitting on the edge of your seat with some of that shit. In fact - Casino Royale, which deals with Baccarat, I believe, probably was the entire high point of the story. Baccarat against Le Chiffre and then the story spirals downward into a fluffy piece of shit with James Bond chasing after Vesper Lynd.

Fucking trainwreck.

Probably parallels this story, without an epic poker scene. And an epic Poker scene does not include a royal flush, four of a kind or a full house. That's bullshit. It's understandable for the movie, where Texas Hold'Em was used and the general audience was a bunch of retarded fucking Americans, but for us who actually waste time reading fanfiction, I think most of us can appreciate a well-written poker scene.

Or bridge. Awesome in Moonraker against the red-haired faggot at the ritzy country club. Gotta give Flemming some props.

 

To be fair, justblaise mentioned fanfiction, and not fiction as a whole, so I guess Flemming doesn't count.

I don't suppose you know of any good fanfics with quality card game scenes, do you?

 

The "real life" part of his statement seems to denote that it can never take place elsewhere, while the "not fanfiction" simply points out where we are - a fanfiction forum - and that is not permissible here.

Don't recall any good card game scenes. Then again, I haven't read the 350,000 stories on Fanfiction.net. And I won't.

 

I tried this a while back. The poker king theme attracted me like many others, but my interest waned when fluff and romance started sucking the magic out... literally. In the part I've seen, Harry might have as well been a muggle.

 

@Lucullus: thanks for trying to stick up for me, but I still stand by what I said: Poker is for real life. Ian Flemming didn't revolve his stories around card games - Bond was a spy who played cards. In this story, Harry is portrayed as the British version of Moneymaker....who happens to cast spells from time to time. Granted I didn't think of Flemming when making my blanket statement, so I'll go read one of the Flemming novels. I'll bet that the card scenes actually tie in with the plot and help move the story, unlike this failfiction I read.

In regards to the "real life" part of my comment, I treat cards like I treat baseball, bowling, soccer, and martial arts - I'd much rather play than be on the sideline watching. Reading about it is a step below watching.

 

Not the top of the line but still decent enough to read. Some interesting moments and the plot is rather interesting .... at least it was in the beginning. I'll give it a 4/5 for now and edit that if it continues to decline.