Title: Freak of Nature
Author: michaelsuave
Rating: M
Genre: Adventure/Suspense
DLP Category: Please fill in.
Summary:
Harry Potter was always called a "Freak" by the Dursleys, the wizarding world often reviled him, and the muggles ignored his abuse or added to it... After all of that abuse, is it any wonder that Harry is going to make the world regret it? "Dark" Harry

Link: Freak of Nature

Pretty well written so far. Harry learns to talk to insects, which in turn leads to other animals. After the "Zoo Incident", he remains there, occasionally killing various people and eating them for their transgressions against others, or for necessity.

Although there is an underlying feeling of Super!Harry the further it goes, How he became so is explained in detail, so he isn't some living god all of a sudden.

My favorite parts are where he interacts with Luna, or rather how Luna reacts to seeing Harry, and how her father reacts to her reaction.(Shit, does that even make sense?)

Anyways, hope you like.

 

For Review submissions have a required template.
It's a sticky: http://forums.darklordpotter.net/showthread.php?t=101

This story is on the "almost recommended" list:
http://forums.darklordpotter.net/showthread.php?t=16843

Here is where it was almost recommended:
http://forums.darklordpotter.net/showthread.php?p=386055#post386055

 

You fail....as does the story.

 

Does being abused make a person retarded? I can only say this Harry is in the zoo, where he belongs.

1/5.

Go fuck yourself.

 

Uncalled for.

Flame the story if it makes you happy. Attack the OP's opinions, using as much profanity as you please, I don't have a problem with that. I'm fairly sure I don't need to explain to you the difference between attacking an opinion and vomiting an insult after quoting an opinion.

Let me reassure you, you made your point just fine with only the two lines I didn't quote.

 

This is unashamedly Super!Harry, and after the largely WTF start with the zoo and Africa and a bunch of spirit bullshit all the usual business with the Lordships and the Goblins and the fucking shopping sprees shows its ugly head, preposterous legal systems and outrageous amounts of money included.

2/5 for a cheap laugh or two, but honestly this would have been a lousy cliched fic five years ago.

Also, the Luna stuff I managed to see sucked.

 

Um, no. Luna is characterized OVER THE TOP - I didn't actually think that was possible. Harry starts as weird and demented, then just becomes blatantly nuts. Suddenly he's EATING PEOPLE. NO. NO. NO. That would work if this was a horror or parody story. And it tries to have it both ways, in addition to being a so-called "Adventure/Suspense" story. Toss in annoying racist original character, and you have what I call "bad fanfiction". There is so much time spent in nonsense, I was very, very bored.

2/5

 

Thanks. I'd searched for in the for review area exclusively by accident using the search tool in that folder only. Didn't think about the almost recommended. Doubt I'll be doing this again though, as most of the time people seem to find this shit before me. Oh well.

Also: Andromalius, eat a dick and choke on it. No need to be rude, douchebag, I don't remember doing anything to you. If your up my ass with a wire brush over this because I made a beginners mistake, I am new to this by the way, then pull a darwin and kill yourself. Comments like that help no one, and make people want to end your life with a blunt instrument.

 

Uhm... anyone else get a little scared when they read that? I know you're "new at this" but death threats are generally a faux pas in not just the internet, but most of life.

 

Seeing as the story is so retarded that referring to it as such is an insult to Sarah Palin's daughter, I can see why Andro insulted you. Probably shouldn't have, especially considering your newness, but I see where it came from.

Worst Idea Ever. 1/5

 

Disproportionate reaction lol.

Tinn jumped on my post and I feared I was going to feel guilty and be contrite after losing the moral ground. But now you justified me. Knowing that you're a douchebag in addition to having bad taste is always good on the conscience. I'm blocking you now, so don't worry about me telling you:

again.

 

This seems the type of situation PMs were made for.

As for the story....I appreciate some insanity in my fanfiction, but this is just sad. And that's without any implied environmentalism. 1/5

 

Yeah...no.
The title and the summary were enough to cause concern. The story itself just sucked balls.
Abused!Harry is never the answer sir.

1/5

 

That blows. Can't even defend myself without getting jumped. Well, that's that I suppose. If this was a truly bad idea on my part, as I'm beginning to believe, just ask one of the moderators to delete the damn thing. It seems I've wasted everyone's time. I'll just leave it to the experts then.

 

This may well be deleted since the story is terribad, but I'm actually going to apologize for my flippant insult. I was in the wrong, and furthermore a misguided recommendation has nothing on the sheer stupidity of this guy: http://forums.darklordpotter.net/showthread.php?p=396254#post396254.

Reading that put the difference between a genuine troll/dumbass and a real newcomer testing the waters, so to speak, into perspective.

So, learn from why this story sucks and keep them in mind. If the idea is really goddamn ridiculous and stupid, like Harry camping out in various zoos and eating people, then consider whether it's intended as crack, in which it might be reasonable, or is written seriously. It takes a while to build up a recognition, or filter.

People say all sorts of things about subjectivity, but it only comes into play at a certain level. This isn't even close.

 

Your defence consisted in saying "kill yourself", after I'd dealt with whatever was wrong with Andromalius's post. On DLP, that is something that'll get you jumped.

Since it seems a little hazy in people's minds:

On DLP, you can say "this story sucks so much it's a fucking black hole. Harry's so stupid I want to take a baseball bat to his skull and spread his brains as fertiliser in my garden, at least they'd be of some use. This is not a good characterisation of Luna, by the way, that's the ravings of a twelve-year-old typing with his feet -- since when do people say and do that etc." Those are arguments. They justify a rating.

But you can't say "Go fuck yourself" without a damn good argument behind it; not in story threads, anyway. Again, since I had dealt with Andromalius's post, I was naïve enough to consider that particular discussion closed.

Also: there is no "wasting people's time." Bad recommendations happen. If you post a bad story, it'll get rated according to its merits and then it'll be deleted. This is the probable fate awaiting this thread.

/off topic

 

I had high hopes for this, I really did. Even if Harry was utterly retarded, to see him leading a slaughter against all of humanity would have been incredibly lulzy. Instead, he ended up in Africa, and got taught by a horribly stereotypical black guy how to be a nundu. -sigh-

I'll just add my 2/5 and forget about this fic.

 

Reading the summary and the first bit, I though it could be good for a laugh. I was incorrect. Creature!Harry and Abused!Harry apparently don't mix. Still, first bit was tolerable. 1/5.

 

If I read anymore fics with Harry been called a "pup" or any of its ****ing variants, I'm going to have a aneurysm.

Now for the review. I made it to the last chapter... doing a skip and move. I've had more painful experiences... 2/5 (part because I've never published anything of my own before)