Title: Harry Potter and the World Beneath
Author: Tellemicus Sundance
Genre: Adventure/Supernatural
Category: Alternative Universe
Pairing: Harry/Fleur
Chapters: 15
Words: 80,308
Updated: October 24, 2012
Published: November 22, 2009
Status: Work in Progress
Summary: Running away from the Dursleys at a young age was perhaps the biggest mistake and the greatest feat of his life. Now, he's trapped alone in the wilderness of a world long forgotten by the passage of time. And this is the story of his return.

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This is one of the most original and entertaining fics I've come across in quite a while. It has been posted in Almost Recommended, but not in For Review. Basically, Harry decides to run away from home at the age of six, robbing the Dursleys before leaving, and through a series of coincidences he finds Platform 9 3/4. Saying anything more gives a lot away, but trust me when I say that the story begins to open up after Harry leaves King's Cross. It's not without its cliches, and of course, it takes some suspension of belief to get over Harry travelling so far from Surrey at the age of six, but reading this story is definitely worth it.

Right now, I'd give it a 4/5 with potential to get better. The last chapter kind of gets the ball rolling as far as Fleur's role in the story goes. Check it out, guys; I promise there are more than a few things that you will never have seen in Harry Potter Fanfiction.


Checked by Minion, January 15, 2013

 

It's certainly interesting, I'll give it that. But something about his writing style grated a bit, and some things made no sense or weren't properly explained yet. I'd say it gets 3/5 right now, though I think it's too soon to really judge.

 

Nice! Only a handful of spelling errors I could notice, but this story is rawking.

You were right, it is full of things I've never seen in HP ff.

 

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Harry Potter befriends a dinosaur...? Lawl.

 

This sorta reminds of a H/Fleur plot bunny I had with Tarzan parallels. Only it was Harry living in a Demiguise colony. (Demiguises are gorillas that can turn themselves invisible, and their hair is used to make invisibility cloaks.) Getting back to this story, its a pretty weird one, featuring Harry and his

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Dinosaur siblings. Which oddly made me think of The Land Before Time series of children's movies, I think one of the characters in those movies is even has the same name as Harry's 'sister'.

That aside, I think its a little too early to give anything than preliminary ratings for this one. The story has only just got past the setup and timeskip phase.

Tentative 3/5 for being on the original side of things, but I wouldn't give it any more than that, the story just hasn't shown itself yet.

 

It did hold my attention throughout all the 5 chapters. And, as long as the story remains as interesting, I'm willing to turn a blind eye on some of the most obvious mistakes and potholes.

It's a 4/5 from me, and I'm really looking forward for more of this.

 

Read this a couple of days ago and lol'ed hard. The sheer incredulity of a Dinotopia crossover blew my mind. The mechanics of the translation between worlds needs some clarification, besides, if the Independents had dinosaurs, why can't wizards? So far the story is interesting enough to keep reading but if the pacifist philosophy and turn-the-other-cheek tendencies of the Dinotopians bleed into this fic I shall be very disappointed, if indeed this is a Dinotopia xover as the title suggests.

So...where are my sabretooth tigers and pteradactyls?

 

The writing was too flat and nothing with a flavor of exceptional originality happened to sustain my interest. In fact, the opposite seemed to be the case, with the canon departure being impelled by the abusive Dursleys. That's not going to work.

A very suspect 3/5. I suspect it'd be lower the further I read.

 

It's .... meh. Nothing to hold my attention.

 

Dude. What can be more interesting then Harry Potter raised by Dinosaurs? You guys are seriously missing the awesome.

 

That's going in my sig. Dude.

 

I don't quite have the hard-on for dinosaurs Averis seems to be sporting, and I think that combined with the fact it's only been five chapters, makes it an odd choice to be posted here, as of now. For one thing, it's only 30000 words out of a possibly much-longer fic. There's a promise of Harry/Fleur, but again, it's way too fucking early to tell jack or for me to really review...

But what I've seen so far, it's average. It reads all well and good, with no glaring errors, but just average. No rating, but who knows? Maybe the story will turn out better somewhere down the line, and I'll come back to this thread and give it a rating, recycling bin or not.

 

Unique, but it's not exactly easy to fit those two worlds together; it's currently hovering at around 3/5.

 

Boing, bitches. Gib me all of that Allosaurus ass..

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Meh, I commented on this in the almost recommended thread where I think it belongs for now.

The author focuses on describing the wrong things and I think some of the things she writes is supposed to make me laugh. Not really sure though.

Anyway, it has the potential to become something good, but it's WAY to early to tell. Wait until Harry get's into the wizarding world at least since that is where the story will really begin.

Also, dinosaurs are not THAT cool, they can't carry a fic by simply existing.

 

Say that to my pet raptor and not online and see what happens.

On topic: not half bad. I'm sticking with it now just to see how the author facilitates communication between a feral boy who probably hasn't spoken English in a while, with the rest of the wizarding world. OP was right though: I definitely didn't see this coming.

3/5

 

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5001879/1/Harry_Potter_Kidnapped

1st half of the 1st chapter is a word for word copy, will read a little more to see if Sundance deviates at all