Its also a fucking stupid premise and so insubstantial that trying to write a story based on it would only end in megafail.

 

Actually, it's been done before, by Draco664, in Midnight Duel, Midday Love (the sequel to Betrayal of The Best Kind).

It was just a footnote, compared to the rest of the story, though, and had little to do with the plot.

 

It's utterly stupid to do any such nonsense with a plane in a world where magical types can Apparate or make Portkeys.

To wit:

To curry favor with the Werewolves and to keep them from joining Voldemort, Harry arranges for them to be granted Portkeys on a timer that activate just before evening on the full moon and successively hops them around the Earth, thus keeping them in the light all day and preventing them from ever transforming.

While not a cure for lycanthropy, it turns out to be the next best thing. For his brilliance, Harry is awarded an Order of Merlin, Third Class. And a cookie.

The end.

 

The chasing of the sun in a plane has been done by more than Draco664, I've seen it a few places.

Pers, I'm also sure I've seen that idea with the portkeys before.

The one I hate, really hate, was something written by DrT. He for some reason believes, that the full moon can happen during day light hours some of the time. Something to do with the 'true' full moon being a point of time rather than the appearance of the moon or some such nonsense. So werewolves in his fics don't transform every fullmoon, it has to be the full moon and night time. Bloody stupid IMO.

Thinking about DrT, the other thing I hate in fics is where the author apparently has some really strange conception of how the OWL/NEWT system works. I don't mind authors changing things from canon, but when they don't seem to think that what they've written is different from canon, thats where we have a problem. DrT had this thing about the OWL's, where as well as the normal subjects there were two additional theory exams, which divide between them all the core subjects. So you had a theory exam for DADA, Charms and Transfiguration. And another one which covered Herbology, Potions and Astronomy.

Now I wouldn't mind that, its fine, but at no point in his many many authors notes does he even allude to it to mention its his own take on OWLs. Its also in every single one of his fics, which leads me to assume he honestly thinks thats how it works in canon.

Similar is the old idea that an O = 2 OWLs rather than 1, which seems to be an authors justification for Harry to get 12 OWLs whilst not being overly academic.

 

It wouldn't surprise me that it's been done. (It's one of the most obvious solutions to lycanthropy that many of us thought of by reading book 4 in the series).

DrT fics in general qualify for their own category of pet peeves. Among other things, the guy writes, hands down, the least titillating, IKEA porn lemon scenes in the fandom.

 

QFTMT

The other big thing about them is that he does sets of fics...using the same plot over and over, with only slight changes. Which could work...if they were particularly good plots, but they are distinctly average, cookie cutter plots so...

 

Alright, I get it, you've written Harry as a clever little bunny. Now stop boring me.

Also, songfics. Although Freeverse can be interesting. But normally isn't.

 

Thought you were talking about munkeymaniac for a moment there.

 

Canon-based fics where Harry seems to know advanced spells he shouldn't know without any explanation as to how or when he learned them. Because I'm pretty sure the Memory Charm wouldn't be in the Hogwarts curriculum.

As such, I've written a homage to that.

Hmm... I like it. Maybe I'll use something similar in a fic sometime.

 

Quoted For The Magical Truth?

 

If you want...

Or more generally Quote for the Motherfucking Truth...

Either works.

 

Shame that he didn't use it on Ginny.

"Sorry Gin, but I can't let you remember seeing me and Fleur doing the nasty - obliviate!"

Cue sound of a melon being squished.

"...Whoops?"

 

This annoys me a lot. There's no indication in canon that you get graded separately for theoretical and practical exams, and I can't stand when authors have to make a huge list, and then sometimes even just average the two together anyways just for an excuse to have Harry get into Snape's class on a technicality. Thankfully it usually limited to indy!Harry stories and I have enough common sense to avoid most of them, but sometimes I still get surprised.

 

"In my defense, I did say I was going to wipe his mind. I just wiped the rest of his head along with it."

 

A lot of fanon about OWLS was written long before there was any canonical evidence one way or another. If memory serves the only evidence was a throwaway line about Percy getting twelve OWLs, which isn't really possible unless you get creative with marking methods, hence the 'two for an O' and 'theory and prac are separate' schools of thought.

 

Sure it is.

Defense, Charms, Transfiguration, Potions, Herbology, History, Astronomy, Runes, Arithmancy, CoMC, Divination, Muggle Studies. That's 12.

 

The problem being Hermione took 12 subjects in 3rd year, and promptly burned herself out. Did I mention she used time travel to do it?

People tried to handwave it away with various reasons, such as
(1) change in time schedule resulting in longer hours per class per day, meaning that Hermione and co. can't take that many courses as those years ahead of them, thus Percy could take and get 12 OWLs while Hermione needed a Time-turner.
(2) Percy also used a time-turner. Thus, his loss of a sense of humor and all.
(3) One can take an OWL exam without taking the course. This is usually seen in "Harry gets Muggle Studies OWL because he's muggle-raised and know everything, free OWL!" stories.

I'd say, maybe, (4) summer class.

 

It's canon that a 17 or 18 year old muggleborn girl can not only get a hold of the necessary theory to learn the spell, but apparently successfully rewrite her parents' lives on the first try. Or, if that was by some other method (as a double check at the lexicon says she later contradicts herself saying she'd not used a memory charm before), then she still shows prowess with the skill later on against witnesses.

She probably read about it from the Black library (or the restricted section), rather than the Hogwart's main, but still, the fact remains that it's not only plausible, but canonically available to Harry (if only through Hermione).

That said, he'd probably be rubbish at it all the same.

 

@Oruma: Her burnout was a plot-point, not a necessity. We don't know of any limitations on the usage of time-turners, so there's no reason why Hermione couldn't have caught up on her sleep. Forging the Sword illustrates the responsible (from our perspective) use of a time-turner very well.

 

Don't forget, it isn't a normal 17/18 year old girl. Its Hermione. One of the main characters, and supposedly the most intelligent person in teh worldz!11!!

Although if Lockhart can pull it off...