Title:The Unbearable Lightness of Fleur Delacour
Author: Heather Sinclair
Rating:R
Genre: Action/Adventure
DLP Category: Independent
Pairing: Harry/Fleur
Published: February 12, 2008
Updated: July 13, 2008
Chapters: 3
Words: 18,956
Status: Abandoned
Summary: The Magical world has been exposed. War is coming and Harry is caught in the middle.
Link: PatronusCharm
Link: Fanfiction.net

Comments: Pretty good fic in my opinion. It's only 20k words, but it's already getting pretty interesting. The author jumps back and forth from post DH to post GoF, but I'm still trying to see the reasoning in the post GoF parts. I'm sure it'll come together, but as it stands right now, it just feels tacked on. I like it though, in most fics that involve heavy muggle interaction you either have a Harry who's pro-muggle or pro-magic. In this, Harry's just caught in the middle in trying to prevent a cluster**** from happening. And failing, it looks like.

4/5


Checked by Minion, June 9, 2013
Added ff.net link

 

It was posted in WbA, been seemingly dead for about a year now, with no word from Heather Sinclair in that thread. She last posted on the forums a little over a month ago, so no idea what's happening if or when.

http://forums.darklordpotter.net/showthread.php?t=8549&highlight=unbearable+lightness

Still from what I remember of it, it was good a solid 4/5.

 

Ah, sorry, didn't realize that it had been dead for so long. I tend to do all of my reading at Fanfiction.net, where everything's sorted as most recently updated first. Didn't even cross my mind to check the dates...I just assumed it was recent because I noticed a few other fics that I've been following underneath it.

Ah well, ignore me, mock me, whatever.

 

I noticed too, so I'll go ahead and give it the rating it deserves, from memory :
4/5, very promising, too bad it's most probably abandoned.

Yay, now it's gone up to 3 stars !

 

Sorry thought I'd rated it, must have forgotten to, rating added.

 

I remember disliking it in that it went nothing like how a war between magic and Muggle would go, IMO. The Muggles know too much, magic has been both underpowered and not used to its full effectiveness. 3/5.

 

Not bad, but nothing exceptional either. Didn't particularly like the characterisation of Fleur in the fic. Other than that solid writing, no typos or mistakes. I will give it 3/5. Good enough fic but not library material.

 

I actually really enjoyed this story. As awesome as Wizards are, with their blatant civil rights violations (obliviate anyone?) and their utter lack of understanding of technology (Arthur Weasley works with muggle objects and is completely clueless) I can easily forsee a conflict breaking out between the two societies. I didn't have an issue with the muggles apparently prevailing, simply due to the disproportionate numbers of the populations.

That said, it's a little awkward rating this fic here due to the incomplete nature of it. As it stands, Fleur really hasn't played much of a role in what has been written. It feels as if we've only seen the first three parts of the prologue, instead of the story itself.

4/5 for an enjoyable fic, which I hope is continued.

 

Arthur Weasley is a caricature. In OotP we see Kingsley is writing a report for the Aurors on Muggle firearms, in HBP we see that the wizarding governments have complete control over the Muggle ones (we shall arrange for the president to call you tomorrow).

And you'd think that despite the moral objections, a government being able to ignore civil rights would give them an advantage in a war.

As for numbers, they only matter if you treat it as a traditional war like those between Muggle societies - which it isn't.

So yeah. I don't have a problem with Muggle vs. wizard conflicts (though there is an argument for the idea that the wizards would prevent such a thing from ever occuring by making the Muggles forget about said war). But you gotta do them right.

 

This. This, this, this.

See any of the Muggle vs. Wizard threads for further details.

 

I read this a long, long time ago. (In ff terms, anyways) I'm going to re-read it first, but from what I remember it's a 3.5/5.

 

I read this awhile ago. On just realised that I hadn't commented on it.

ULoFD is a decent attempt at creating a believeable Wizard/Muggle war. Yes, the wizards could just wipe the memories of the Muggles to prevent war but that would defeat the purpose of writing a Wizard/Muggle war.

I'd like to see a little more before I give any final opinions. However, Heather Sinclair's work has generally been of high quality, so I have little doubt the fic won't go downhill from here (if it gets updated, ever). Presently, I'd give it a 4/5. It's far from perfect, but it's interesting and written well enough to be accepted here just fine.