Title: Intersections
Author: dragongirlG
Genre: General
Category: AU
Pairing: None at the moment
Summary: UPDATE. Formerly titled 'Harry Potter, the Muggle.' AU. When Harry and Hermione meet at Stonewall High, neither of them expects to find out that four years ago, they both received a letter from a magical school called Hogwarts...
Link: Intersections

Harry doesn't get to see his Hogwarts letter and ends up going to Stonewall. Years later Hermione transfers. While the premise is only semi-plausible, the characters are well-written and the path that it takes is pretty good once it picks up speed (although it takes a while, and there are a few too many Muggle OC's in the process).

A while ago I remember someone challenging DLP to write a Harry goes Stonewall scenario, although nothing came of it (as far as I know). Well, here it is.

Cons: The story was published in 02? However, it was just updated in July so I'm a little unsure what the update rate is like. As it stands, there is 72,000+ for you to read, and the only mistakes I could find are completely accidental. Granted, this isn't the best story I've ever read, and I don't expect everyone at DLP to jump on the bandwagon, but I think a majority of you will recognize that this story belongs in the library.

Personally I'd rate it as a 4/5 - the writing is pretty smooth and for the most part error free, but it moves slow (although logically so).

Check it out. I'm intrigued to know what DLP as a whole thinks about it.

 

I am recalcitrant to click the link. But I shall give it a chance and return to edit.

EDIT: Averis, you can call me surprised.

I read it, the whole thing, and despite some parts that were cringe-worthy, but those were mostly at the beginning - and for being written in '02, I must say that they've held up remarkably well.

An interesting premise, with decent characterization. As a downside, there were hints of H/G, which made me want to vomit, but there are also hints of H/Cho. So we'll see how it goes.

I'll rate this one a 4/5.

 

Not even Harry Potter fanfiction in the opening chapters. Literally just Harry doing schoolwork and chores while Uncle Vernon yells 'Boy' at him.

1/5. Fanfiction at its most pathetic.

 

Haven't read it, but my shitstorm senses are tingling... hard.

 

The word Boy is used 3 times in the first six words...
Fail.

Will update when I've read more, though my hopes aren't high.

 

Eaacchbleearghaaaah..... Pukey puke puke.

Effin.... aaaaargh.

I can hardly hear my own thoughts past the grittin of me teeth. It's like somebody took all the most BORING parts of canon and mushed em all up into a nice oatmeal goop, aged it for a couple years, and sprinkled some faux mystery on top. Utter poop.

Technically sound, though. Couldn't get past chapter 3.

 

I gave up after reading this:

Seeing as I didn't even manage to get half way through the first chapter I'm going to refrain from rating this fic.

 

WTF Averis. Are you high or something?

This fic isn't even worthy of the recycling bin. I couldn't get past the first chapter before I clicked out in disgust. I'm surprised I got as far as I did, let alone 3 chapters like RustyRed.

 

Haha, actually to be fair, I read parts of the first chapter, skipped the second, and skimmed the third. I didn't want to sound too judgmental, but I didn't even rate the thread so I guess it's not too big a deal.

 

If I was high I probably wouldn't have posted a fic at all.

You guys were tripping over the first chapter, where he is pretty much abused, neglected (luckily without throwing of fists) - okay, I'll give you that. Remember that this story was published in 02, a time when our standards were far lower. The fic opens up once he realizes that magic is real a couple of chapters in - he wtfpwns Piers Polkiss and ends up in the hospital himself.

The things I like about this: Something is seriously wrong in London, Sirius is batshit insane but dedicated to Harry, Dumbledore is most assuredly not telling Harry and Hermione everything, and the teenagers act like teenagers.

Downsides: The abuse. All the time spent at Stonewall. OCs (although they aren't that bad and disappear after a few chapters). And it's slow.

Still, the fic as a whole is a 4/5 where the first few chapters are 2.5 working on 3. I'd still suggest, even for those like Andromalius, Rusty Red and Demons that pretty much immediately hated it, skipping to the 6th chapter. Once Sirius appears (wild!Sirius appears go Charizard!) things get much better.

EDIT: And Demons, you know where to get any? It's dry out here.

 

Ermm... perhaps you were thinking of Dragongirl16?

Five words, actually.

As for the fic? Erm. Well, I think I've read enough. And by enough, I mean the comments in this thread. No rating from me.

 

Well, I read through it. It's very boring at the start. It has little to do with Harry Potter at the start.

But it's an interesting idea. Grammar and Spelling are decent enough.

3/5

 

Seems interesting enough. I think I will read on past the first chapter, unlike most of you.

Harry seems awkward, and generally unsociable. Without magic in his life he didn't have anything that he could take pride in or anything. I can get his attitude, I mean he was so excited and relieved when he got his Hogwarts letter and started a new and exciting life with Castles, ghost and an evil maniac on the lose. But no, he didn't get that. Somehow he was stuck with the Dursleys living his sucky life.

Wondering how Hermione, of all people, got stuck in the non-Hogwarts letter situation as well.

I liked how the author wrote how the other people in the school treat and view Harry. Gives us more perspective on how this magicless teenage Harry is like.

Con: It is annoying how much the Dursley's refer Harry to Boy. And even though I can get his attitude, I prefer a much confident Harry, not this downtrodden Harry.

So far, I'll give it a 3/5.

 

The "Hermione also being in the same boat" thing really hurt my suspension of disbelief, but it's not a bad story. Not good either 3/5. Recycling Bin Max.

 

And we want to know this why?

I definitely don't want to read any muggle shit in HP.

And especially mentioning Hermione in the summary - can you take a wild guess at the pairing, or a very major relationship at the very least?

1/5.

 

Well, I'm gonna go against the grain here.

I had started to read this fic before, but then got sidetracked with something. This reminds me to finish it. I had however read enough to form an opinion, and this is good.

I always wanted to explore this a bit. Anyway, he obviously gets introduced to magic later on, so all you whining about magicless Harry should have read it a bit further.

The character interactions are almost all great here, except for one thing that pissed me off. The writing style is good and flows pretty well. Solid 4/5.

 

Rid me of a doubt here: you did read the fic before you rated it, right?

 

I read the first several chapters and while it's not bad, I never really got into it either.

I don't mind the idea behind the story, though I'm not sure I like Hermione not going to Hogwarts. I think it'd be better if she went for a couple years but her parents pulled her out because the danger. Even without Harry there one would assume the Troll & Basilisk incidents would still occur.

In fact, Hogwarts might have been closed after second year, with no Harry to save the day. Hermione's parents could then decide to keep her in the muggle world instead of sending her back into a magical world where, one may assume, she never made friends anyway. After all, who else in her year in Gryffindor is she going to befriend? Neville, maybe. Surely not Ron without Harry there, though, imho.

Anyway, like I said, not horrible, but not great. I'd say 2.5/5

 

I read until about chapter 10, and it didn't really hold my interest.

The writing is sound, characterization decent and premise fairly original, but the content just wasn't my cup of tea. That being said, the fic is average in my opinion.

3/5

 

Yes, I did.

I admit I judged it unfairly because of my principles. It is well written, the characterizations are good enough, and Harry does get into the magic world halfway through. Usually, I could also give it 3/5, but it has many concepts I personally consider horrible in Harry Potter, so 1/5 from me.