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Cyfrgolledig atyn yr Dywyllwch by Saerry Snape - T - HP/OC

Discussion in 'Trash Bin' started by Harpy Prince, May 8, 2006.

  1. Harpy Prince

    Harpy Prince Seventh Year

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    Subject: Cyfrgolledig atyn yr Dywyllwch by Saerry Snape - T - HP/OC pairring


    Title: Cyfrgolledig atyn yr Dywyllwch
    Author: Saerry Snape
    Rating: T
    Genre: Supernatural/Romance
    Pairing: HP/OC
    Status: Complete
    Summary: Post Hogwarts. Harry Potter was turned into a vampire during his sixth year and was hated by the wizarding world ever after for it - even though he defeated Voldemort. Two hundred and sixty-one years later, he returns to the school - and the wo
    Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2226486/1/

    As I read through it and later on finished it a voice in my head told me I should hate it, but I can't help but think it was a pretty good fic. It's 9 chapters long and it's a great way to pass time as you wait inbetween other fanfiction updates.
     
  2. SuBzEr0

    SuBzEr0 First Year

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    So is everyone but Harry dead then?
     
  3. Harpy Prince

    Harpy Prince Seventh Year

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    Yeah, I think a couple hundred years pass or something like that. There was 1 battle that I thought was rather alright.
     
  4. nonjon

    nonjon Alumni Retired Staff

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    I actually liked this little fic. It's very short and from the same author as the "Not Myself" series, which I don't particularly care for. This is just a pretty typical Vampire!Harry fic. Limited bits of angstiness as everyone looks down on vampires, they're evil, they're crazed killers, they're dangerous, etc... Don't think there's anything you've not seen hundreds of times before. But considering Vampire!Harry is so rarely interesting at all to me, and this Snape-loving author is so rarely interesting at all to me, I still read and enjoyed this little ficlet while she was pumping out those little two-thousand-words-if-you're-lucky chapters.
     
  5. doc_gerbil

    doc_gerbil Sixth Year

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    read this one a looooooooooooooooong time ago. it was fine. some okay characterization. this author usually bothers me as for the life of me i cannot figur out what the appeal behind snape is.

    btw, is that burning house in the banner supposed to have some significance, or is just a burning house.
     
  6. Harpy Prince

    Harpy Prince Seventh Year

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    I think it's Godric's Hollow. I could be wrong of course.
     
  7. Antivash

    Antivash Until we meet again... DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    The burning house is Numba 4... The Dursley's home. I read it. I ... didnt mind it, considering the author. I wouldnt say I LIKED it, but I dont Dislike it either. Its decent.
     
  8. Dark Lord Rostam

    Dark Lord Rostam Button La Famiglia Midknight

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    The title it...irks me. It's okay, but the titile makes me want to hurt something.
     
  9. Harpy Prince

    Harpy Prince Seventh Year

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    That's basically how I felt. It was a Ginny and Snape fan kinda fic but without Ginny and Snape. I actually believed the OC pairing more than Ginny herself.
     
  10. Dark Syaoran

    Dark Syaoran No. 4 Admin

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    I like the title, its different.

    I read this story ages ago. I thought it was okay but yeah, wasnt the best. Better than your average Vampire Harry story at any rate, but that isnt exactly saying much...
     
  11. Dark Syaoran

    Dark Syaoran No. 4 Admin

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    Has anyone else read this and willing to give an opinion/rating?
     
  12. Richard

    Richard Supreme Mugwump

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    This one was a nice story. I liked that one.
     
  13. Andro

    Andro Master of Death DLP Supporter

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    This is pretty pathetic.

    First chapter, Harry Potter turns out to be a vampire for an undisclosed reason. Why a vampire chose to "sire" him is a mystery. The ending is a shameless one-liner rip-off of ending of the first chapter from Ruskbyte's From the Abyss.

    Harry's lived for a hundreds of years, and for such a mysterious dark vampire he's had nothing better to do than to hang around Ron Weasley's descendants.

    No shit? Vampires have empathic abilities bitches.

    "Hey, kitten," I murmured, smiling gently.

    "'Lo," mumbled Briana in reply. "I feel all weak."

    "I know, kitten."

    "Can you make it better?"[/QUOTE]

    And Harry addresses the Weasley spawn by "kitten".

    Briana Weasley is dying, so Harry vampirizes her after thinking it through for about as long as a very short paragraph. Then he berates himself for his stupidity a scene change later. For an immortal being with centuries of life experience, his wisdom is lower than that of a particularly dumb Barbarian from Neverwinter Nights.

    Briana Weasley still ages despite being turned into a vampire a chapter earlier. Meaning she should still be a seven year-old. So the internal logic is all messed up since by definition she should end up dying of old age, contrary to the immortality of vampires. I Just to avoid complicated situations when her family and friends notice, possibly engendering hatred of Harry, and the story could have been interesting following their complex relationship etc.

    Lazy.

    Oh, and vampires don't need to drink human blood.

    If Harry went gay and started having his anus reamed by all the other vampires, this would not make the story worse.

    1/5.
     
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  14. Militis

    Militis Supreme Mugwump

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    I fucking lol'd.
     
  15. Iztiak

    Iztiak Prisoner DLP Supporter

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    lol

    Four years makes a difference, I suppose. :p
     
  16. enembee

    enembee The Nicromancer DLP Supporter

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    I actually lol'd when I read the title. Clearly this author isn't Welsh.
     
  17. Otters

    Otters Groundskeeper ~ Prestige ~ DLP Supporter

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    While this is more readable than expected, given some of the ideas behind it; vampire!Harry, Weasley!spawn, the PoV changing every fifty-odd words, and so on, I can't say this is DLP material.

    It's decent for FFnet.

    It doesn't belong in the Library.
     
  18. Iztiak

    Iztiak Prisoner DLP Supporter

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    I think it deserves a spot in the Library just so I can read the title again whenever it gets necro'd.

    I've never seen another story titled like that. :p Thankfully.
     
  19. Richard

    Richard Supreme Mugwump

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    I haven't either. An odd title for a Mediocre story.

    Edit: Why the hell isn't this in the trash bin anyway? Doesn't belong in the Library.
     
  20. Antivash

    Antivash Until we meet again... DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    I... Have a fairly good idea.

    [​IMG]

    Perhaps you should shut up now and pay more attention to threads and dates.