This is about the 5th time I've gone to read this, then wondered why I haven't, checked this thread and realised why.

muggles have magical suppressors

There is no way I am reading a story with that, I won't rate it as I haven't read it but I just needed to get that off my chest.

 

I love Luna in this fic and I'm all for hating Hermione. You could say I'm pro-anti Hermione. Anyway I've had a few big problems with this fic. One is in the very beginning when Dumbles had his little kid gloves on and when Harry doesn't know something gives him that look and uses that tone to make Harry feel even worse about it all. It makes me so mad and I almost stopped reading the fic just for that. But I pushed through and held on because it had a lot of potential.
But then with the body guard. One was Tonks and the other is like some sort of Scotland Yard guy? I understand you're trying to be funny with the differences there but come on? I still want to be able to believe it all, and I found that kind of silly and cheap. That sounds harsher than I meant it to be, but I can't help it.
Once the Muggles got the one up on Wizards though.... were able to control magic better than them.... that was it for me and I'm sorry to say I tuned out after that. But on the other hand after reading some of the better reviews for the fic I might just tune back in.

Mac.

 

It's discontinued because pricks can't accept a simple plotbunny like having a magical suppressor after having studied magic for a century.

 

Now thats not true... Thanks for defending me but thats not the reason I stoped writing the story. Honestly I expected to get a lot of flames considering this is my first story. I've only gotten a few and even of those they were still fairly constructive.

If you really want to know... like nonjon, my mum got cancer( lung to be specific). She's not a smoker but thems the breaks

I took a term of school, moved back in to watch over her and my sister, and am currently working at a very low paying job as my old one is just too far to commute.

I honestly just don't have the time to write the story right now. That and I never got around to re soldering that power jack on my motherboard.

Now that offer is still open for anyone who wants to take the reigns of the story. I haven't gotten any offers so I'm not to sure what to think of that.

Anyway, Thanks kardikek for the continued support.

To lincos and Macmar... I can understand... blah blah blah... its your choice if you want to read it... ect.

I've already responded to those statements in the earlier parts of the thread so feel free to read the nicer ones at your leisure.

Later, I'm off to stock cantelopes...

yay...

 

O.O Damn. Here was I thinking it was on an extremely long hiatus.

Well, it was certainly an awesome story.

Being somewhat of a fluff addict, I read it for the Harry/Luna aspect.

Truthfully, I saw great potential with the entire magical suppressors idea. Not many fics do that idea correctly, and I'm not saying yours did it all that well either. But it certainly held the potential.

The way I had imagined the suppressor thing working out would have been a nonmagical world slowly dominating the magical one. With only remnants of the wizarding world remaining.

The magical world would have been suppressed and done its utmost to counteract the effects of the neutralization of their magic. While the non-magical would have had a way to neutralize the suppressors on their own magical folk.

A way to discriminate the 'magical gene' if you will.

It would have led to a magical-nonmagical war, with a small resistance being led by Harry Potter. Guerrilla warfare if you may. Eventually leading to many of the events hypothesized in the Wizard vs. Muggle thread. (I firmly believed in the superiority of magical prowess rather than the gift of technology)

Well. I have no idea what your story would have done, but it actually led me to believe that that is what would have happened. Maybe I paid too much attention to the magical suppressor thing, or maybe not enough was paid to the romance.

I do know that I loved the idea, and while it certainly has its bad points, the magical suppressor idea could have rocked

Either way, the story was certainly great, and ranked amongst my favorites.

[Sucks to hear about your mom.]

 

Most of what I've been thinking already has been said and I'm not finished with the story, so maybe I'll give my whole opinion later on.

Just one question:
Why the hell did you switch to first person in ch 18?
One chapter Luna POV 1st person I could understand but you switched the whole story for at least a handful of chapters...not a good decision.
EDIT: I've read your A/N a few moments ago, so consider the question answered.

It's a shame you abandoned your story but maybe some time in the future you'll change your mind.

I'm sorry about your mom by the way. I know what it feels like...

 

Emotion activated magic = bad

I just finished reading what you have up, I have to say h'm surprised at the lack of comment on your different angle of depicting Harry's accessing of his magic. I guess I was a little confused when you first started explaining in A/N's about how you don't like all those stories where his magic is reached through emotional trigger or outburst. But I took a second look at how you set up your and realized it was more a controlled thing in this story. Harry mentally moved his rage and uses it to connect to his 'core' instead of it just happening and everything going jack shit crazy. If this wasn't how you really tried to portray it please correct me.

-Mesterio

 

At first I was really excited thinking it was going to be a Dark/Humour Harry, from the dark parts of his mind. But then he went on the magic suppressor.
Which was a good idea which unfortunately he sort of messed up.
No the main peeve is; why didn't the muggles go all Dominatrix?
Imagine this:

You suddenly find a entire Civilization alongside your who have the ability to heal broken bones in a few days and are able to instantly travel all across England among other heretofore impossibilities. You also have the ability to neutralize any form of defensive or offensive capabilities they may wield against you. You also have certain grudges in the form of Memory Charms and the commandeering of mass land use.
Any form of Muggle Government would be using the Wizardkind to create new resources and create new land and fix certain global problems as in the Co2 and world poverty/hunger issues.
I mean you could do this in a more peaceful way,
but where's the fun in that?

Sub!Wizardkind FTW.

 

So I read both of the first chapters (yes, there are apparently two first chapters for this story).

The first one starts off like this:

It's about a random neighbors hating her dog and hearing some gossip about Harry. Basically the (first) first chapter was better off not written at all.

Even the author admitted it:

And the second first chapter isn't any better.

1/5.

Makes me wonder how lenient people were rating my stories just because I was a DLPer.

 

I really enjoyed the story, the typos didn't disturb me much and the whole magical suppressor wasn't that hard to swallow, even more because it raised a few good points, especially with the Obliviate spell and how it should be among the unforgivables.

The characters were great, especially Dumbledore, Ron and Harry. Luna was great as well, although I remember her being a bit OOC but I still enjoyed her. It had serious moments and entertaining ones, (the gummy bears for example with their leader Bob) and for me this is a very enthusiastic 4/5. Pity it won't be continued. Sorry about your mother.

 

I stopped reading after the first couple of lines of the second chapter when the author spelled Mrs Figg's name wrong TWICE, after spelling it perfectly in the first chapter. This was, unfortunately, the straw that broke the camels back.(The anvils of the 1st chapter did a good job contributing to it though.)

 

I liked this story up until the magical cancelers. That made me stop reading. It's MAGIC, not a branch of science that hasn't been discovered yet. And while I understand the muggle governments not wanting to be out of the loop, 1 wizard could decimate an entire army of muggles. And since I don't believe in magic being stoppable, the whole story kinda collapses.

 

Just because it needs to be said.


Except for that one guy with a .308, 416 rifle, or .50 sniper rifle 4000-6000 feet away. You need to see and hear it to defend against it.
You won't hear the 416 or the .50 BMG before bodies go splat.

Though the magical cancelers were odd they do sorta make sense if the muggles actually studied magic for that long. After all magic is nothing but energy and energy can be studied if you ignore some of the less believable cannon concepts.

 

Yeah, but on the same note how would you know that the guy you're shooting isn't wearing a hat that makes a shield instantly? Suddenly it goes ping instead of splat assuming that a shield charm stops physical objects that is.

 

a) Magic nullification
b) Wizard being an idiot like most are

Also it is said that magic in great concentration disrupts electricity.
What's to say the reverse isn't true hm?

 

Magical nullification still doesn't make any sense, and the "all wizards are idiots" thing has always bothered me >.> so many HP fanfics strike me as a conspiracy theorists wet dream. Where he really is the one fighting the evil government and everyone else is sheeple. (ugh, just saying that made me feel dirty).

And as for the whole electricity disrupting magic, doesn't ya know, cannon dispute that? Admittedly I haven't read the books in a while, but I'm pretty sure they mention how magic doesn't work around magic, and make no mention of it working like that in reverse. Which is a pretty important thing to mention "Oh yeah, and your magic will shit itself around electricty, just so you know" probably woulda come up.

 

Again anything that can be studied can be countered with time. I'll not mention authors ability to do what they want within cannon. As to the hat with a shield thing... how many people in the books walk around with something like that? A 416 rifle fires a round that goes supersonic and you'll have a hole in your torso before you hear the shot. Cannon just doesn't take modern weapons or science into account.

Also, magic not working around magic? If you are talking about electricity Firearms are not electric. They are mechanical and as per cannon would work as they are a mix of mechanical and chemical operations. The magic stopper isn't near any magic from what we know. Take it like a shield from star trek. Central position but wide area effect.

 

I'll read this once the prologue is readable. I see Mrs. Vo and a dog named Mr. Jingles that don't matter at all.

 

Holy gun nut, Batman. Listen, sniper-wannabe, magic is not energy, it's fucking magic. MAGIC, get it? If it was just plain old energy then the Muggles would have discovered and researched it already, unless you're trying to claim it's Dark Energy [which, on a side note, is a plot bunny I've mulled over but also fails pretty hard], which is, y'know, unde-fucking-tectable to science in present day, if it even exists at all.

Magic is also not Star Trek, since again, that's technology, and energy, and the other not-magic stuff like X04 Magnum Bullet Tosser rifles you like to name-drop. Not the same, okay? Jesus, how hard is it? Yes, if you could shoot a wizard in the head then he'd most likely die from the wound, but to say that those self-same wizards wouldn't come up with a method of stopping little lead projectiles from hitting their heads after just a couple of their fellow wizards were gunned down is flat stupid, end of story.

And don't take this as your invitation to try turning this into the umpteenth incarnation of Wizards v. Muggles WHARGARBLL; just realize that magic is magic is magic, and none of those words is compatible with "science."

 

I won't but I will say all that bull you sprouted is only your opinion. Per cannon wizards are 'fucktard stupid' and ignore muggle things.

You are just another nut that thinks magic would stomp normal things in the HP-verse. For example in a retarded attempt to defend it you mistake me saying 'star trek' as a litteral opinion.

It was an example of how the magic stopper would work. central placement, wide area affect. I said it before. It's not star trek nor did I even attempt to make them the same.


Read before you sprout stupid crap.


PS Everything has energy or do you think the reducto spell has no force to it? EVERYTHING that moves has energy. Magic may be magic but even magic follows the laws of physics in one way or another. It's more like a lightning bolt then anything... it's freaking energy.