I think he's only been described as having "dark eyes" before they turned red.

I like to think he had dark green eyes, making him and Harry a little more similar.

Red eyes, charming? Have you been reading Harry/Voldemort slash?

 

Really? Not endless pools of emerald?

 

I don't believe this has been posted yet.

Title: That Old Fashioned Family Nobility
Author: ckret2
Rating: T
Genre: Drama & Family
DLP Category: General
Pairing: None
Status: One-shot
Summary: DH spoilers Nineteen years after Voldemort's fall, the Malfoy name is far from admired. As Scorpius starts school, he struggles between family tradition and doing whatever it takes to regain respect for the Malfoys.

So, stating the obvious, this is a Scorpius-centric one-shot. You have been warned.

(But seriously, this fic is pretty good. It actually makes me feel okay with Scorpius' existence. The author's writing style, voice, and characterization is just so realistic and moving. ;_; I wish this had been continued; the ending was so abrupt.)

 

Except for the fact that if Scorpius and Albus had been over the age of 13, I'm pretty sure the author would have shipped them. Ignoring the 'Rita insinuates 11 year old Albus is randomly gay' subplot, decent story.

 

I found this one some time ago, and I couldn't find it anywhere around here, so check it out.

This story features a Pureblood!Harry that's raised by the Black Family. Lily's a pureblood (obviously) that was adopted by the Evans, but doesn't find out about her heritage until she's married to James.

The fic has some Ron and Manipulative!Dumbledore bashing. The Dumbledore bashing is cringe worthy at times and some of the dialogue between characters can also be awkward.



However, the story does get better with time, and the Unspeakables seem to have a major part in how Harry is raised.

I should also point out that Lily is not the heir to any of the Founders or Merlin or anything stupid like that. Harry is not some Gary Stu, Hermione doesn't seem to have much of role, and Ginny is... well, let's just say she's fucked up in the head. (I really don't know what to make of her.)


Overall, I would give it a 3.5/5 because of some cliches and the dialogue, but so far, I'm enjoying this.

Oh, and the story has 100k+ words.

 

Yeah, I'm following this also. It's... decent, but nothing special. Pureblood society is well thought out.

 

Dumbledore has just 15 minutes to draft the quarterback of the future.

 

I tried, I really did. It ended up being too much for me around Chapter 4.

 

I know.

Some of it is painfully awkward to read, but if you somehow manage to get to the later chapters, then you get some interesting development with Snape, Sirius, Ginny and the Unspeakables.

 

Meh, I don't even attempt to read anything under 4/5.

 

A somewhat strange fic. The first few few chapters suck ass, containing self righteous ranting of the worst variety, along with independent!Harry clichés. After the crack starts however, the story turns mildly amusing, even entertaining at times.

Stranger still, that it's written by the bobmin team; I've never been able to even start any of their other stories. I guess they've got some talent at writing crackfics.

3.25/5

 

Have they quit fanficauthors.net? You'd think that they, of anyone, would groove with the new FFA site policy: "Must be on Kinsfire's favorites list--preferably as a Harmony shipper--to receive an invite."

 

Yeah, but by whose definition? The OP for that rec? That's too subjective for me; I usually read through the summary given, and if it doesn't sound like pure shit (read: the vast majority of fanfics I've ever read), the pairing isn't something I hate, the story has several chapters and has been updated recently, then I boldly -

- open it in another tab and bookmark it under a FFN folder to possibly take a slightly longer look at later.

Eh. I'm lazy and time reading new stories not in the DLP WbA is time I could be perusing DLP, Slate, TVTropes and Wikipedia, just to name a few.

The Bobmin team has had a lot of success in writing unintentional crackfics for years now. I'm sad to say I enjoyed the fuck out of more than one of them when I first discovered fanfiction.

"Bitter, party of one? Your table is this way, please."

Seriously though, there was a time when it would have meant something to be an author on that site, but unless I'm missing a ton of quality material there, that simply isn't the case anymore.

 

Started reading this, typical cliched indy!Harry for the first few chapters. I was about to quit after Harry stunned the whole Order one by one from behind - Including Dumbledore with a stupefy - but I soldiered onwards. The moment Harry started summoning limbs and other body-parts in chapter five wasn't really funny but the scene was amusing enough.

This scene really cracked me up :awesome

 

That sounds retarded.

 

It is. It's at most a mediocre crack fic in all but name. Like I said, depending on your type of humor you could get a laugh out of one or two scenes, either because they are somewhat amusing or because of how hilariously bad it is.

 

On Saying No:

I stopped reading that when it became apparent that it would be the lazy version of Super!Harry. No actually interesting powers, no compelling villains, just Harry wandering around in a crowd of idiots having everything go his way. Seriously getting Dumbledore by ambushing him from cover with a Stunner? That's just fucking retarded.

I could believe Remus Lupin and most of the rest of the order were enough of a joke to be taken out like that in a certain type of fic, but no Dumbledore should be that incompetent.

 

I understand what you're getting at, Sesc, but personally, Pureblood apologist fanfic rarely does it for me. There are only a few instances where I've read a decent interpretation of it.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6671596/1/A_Necessary_Gift_A_Harry_Potter_Story

This does a surprisingly decent job of it, despite being a rewrite of a mediocre fic. There are some "uh, what?" bits, but there's a decent amount of intelligent discourse on the subject, where everything is not black and white and and none of the sides seem to be completely correct. The buildup to that part is kinda slow, though, you have to get to Hogwarts to see what I'm talking about.