Darkly Dreaming Harry updated again and I really like this one. A lot.

Spoiler

Harry melts some of Snape's face and his entire left hand off by 'accidentally' knocking over a cauldron full of a half-exploding potion and setting up a tripwire of his own shoes and a shoe-tying charm so that he falls face first into it. Doubt Snape is going to die (he's too good at being who he is to die like that), but he's almost certainly not going to teach again. Score one for Psycho!Harry!)

 

It was a nice chapter.

Spoiler

Harry Potter is dead though. Dumbledore is going to know that the "accident" was no accident and I can't even imagine what he would do.

 

This is so disgustingly average - FF.net average, not ours. Simple is an apt description. There's nothing new here (hell, it retreads most of the same ground as the authors' other two Harry and Daphne stories). There's next to no conflict to speak of. It's one of those saccharine, overly-fluffy fics that we've all read a dozen times.

However, I did read almost all of it (I started skipping in later chapters as it increasingly felt I'd read it all before), so it isn't unreadable. But it firmly resides in the lower levels of this topic. It will take something magical to become something that isn't as forgettable as it currently is.

2/5.

 

It's pretty much the same shit that that author has already written 3 times himself and has taken from every other daphne story out there, to create something incredibly mediocre and boring. Then again, nearly every new Daphne story is the same thing over and over again.

 

That's why I liked that story with semi-retarded!comely!Daphne, if only for something different and (semi-)non-cliche

 

Look man, I know I'm not a mod or anything, and I don't wish to be, but when you're talking about a story, don't link to the latest chapter. I was slightly intrigued by "Darkly Dreaming Harry" and then, after reading the 15th chapter, I was dismayed to find I had read the newest update rather than the Prologue as I had intended.

And now I have no will to read the rest of the story. If it was the greatest thing I'd ever read, maybe I would run back 14 chapters, but as is...

Granted I'm high as a bitch right about now, but I lost the will to read after that shit.

 

It's quite good to pass the time... The writing isn't bad and the plot quite good. But it does have some Dursley abuse and some unrealistic situations and Harry is quite super!Harry

Spoiler

Harry is amazing at wandless magic, the Dursleys end up ignoring him and Harry is far too mature for his age.

Apparently it's not going to be slash which is a plus.

 

You mean a story that has Daphne as a pure blood elitist bitch instead of her having a 'heart of gold' and her being miraculously in love with Harry for no apparent reason, and a Daphne that actually is a cunningly (yet not completely Mary Sue) ambitious and calculating bitch to break the normal 'Daphne-stereotype?'

 

Ice Queen cliche I can live with, though. Guilty pleasures.

 

My problem with a lot of these DG stories is that the writer usually never even tries to create some believable event that these 2 characters are able interact so it could lead to some relationship.

Snakecharmer is a good example for a story where the writer has the imagination to do it right. Too bad the story seems to be dead, a real pity.

 

Not to worry Sesc, I've got you're back. I promise you'll enjoy chapter 16 of my story very much.

 

You tease.

 

Just started this, and it's excellent so far - to the point that I'm surprised it's not in the library. Is the author on DLP or something? He seems to fit the profile...

 

He is. Name is pinstripe something or other. I think. Yes I would put this in the library. It is to good to be barely recommended.

 

PinstripedPyjamas IIRC.

I've been following this for a while now and the use of the second person perspective is ideal for this kind of character.

I honestly don't see how he is going to get away with hi latest murder though. It's pretty easily traced. But if he doesn't get caught then I sure as hell won't be complaining.

 

You bastard >.>

Just think, thats 19 more words that you could've had for the next chapter

 

22 if you count contractions.

 

I read a great deal of it about...3 or so years ago. I remember it being a long, engrossing read (I was at the stage where I ignored WIPs in favor of completed fics). Eventually, though, I got tired of all the lovey-dovey pack stuff that you mentioned and put it aside with the intention of completing it at some point in the future. That never happened, though; I think my stopping point was somewhere in the middle of Dealing with Danger.

IIRC this story had Sirius as Valentina Jet the author, right?

I, too, would probably give it a 3/5; it's dated enough that I could never give it anything higher right now. Maybe 3 years ago I would have been amenable to a 4.

In sum:

This pretty much expresses my feelings on the matter and why I stopped reading it.