No. Fuck you.

That's canon.

And his eyes? They're brilliantly entrancing, extraordinarily charming, and if I had them, I would totally be brain-fucking people by training my bottle green stare on them. And they will orgasm again and again as they squirm under my vivid glance.

 

To be fair, there's plenty of non-slash stories that have TMR/HP as the FFN pairing.

Edit: I see what T3t meant, there's an A/N. Maybe I'm just blind or something.

 

except they all stem from this website.

Looking at you Thunderstorm. :awesome

 

There's only one I've found (hint mine hint). All the others are slash, and maybe a few are gen. Maybe.

That said, Carmine, if you stopped reading it, you should finish - there's nothing really explicit and the last couple chapters are boss.

 

Yeah, I've tentatively continued from the hospital wing dream!slash scene, which is where I stopped reading originally.

 

My oneshot deserves a mention. Asshole -.-

In my sig. D8

 

Meh, right. The second.

 

Having the hero be stronger than the villian usually kills the story for me. The whole point of Harry Potter is him being the underdog that wins by unconventional tactics, or at least outwitting the openent(rarely).

 

Wandless magic being all-powerful. Not only does it defeat the whole purpose of having wands in the first place but it's usually an indicator of a rubbish story

 

I've noticed that usually if they select TMR and HP as characters it's more likely going to be slash than if they select LV and HP.

 

Something that just came to me that I realised irked me somewhat whilst reading a fic just now. Authors making stupid errors about how long homework is, and how long it is percieved to be. We all know that at Hogwarts essays are assigned in inches of parchment. What should be remembered is that 7 or 8 inches of parchment is about 2 paragraphs of information. An A4 sheet is what? ...about 12 inches? So being assigned a 20 inch essay is like being told to write to sides of A4. Hardly a taxing endeavour, even when you're 11 years old. I fit roughly 300 words to a lined sheet of A4 paper, about 250 to an unlined side. Parchment is presumably unlined, therefor I'd have to write a whopping 500 words for such a homework assignment. Not something thats going to take me overly long...

 

I think you overestimate the abilities of 11-year olds. While a two-page paper shouldn't take longer than one to two hours to write for somebody in college (maybe even high school) it takes younger students quite a lot longer.

 

I distinctly recall doing 500 word book reports when I was 10 and 11. Which I think is fairly analogous to what we see Harry writing in his essays, at least his earlier ones. There seems to be little in the way of analyses, it more "I found this author saying this. And this author saying this. And this author saying this. And I think this because all these authors agreed on it." Or something in that vein.

Those 500 word book reports of mine, you're right, not a couple of hours, but 3 or 4 hours was all they took.

 

Ugh, Alistair Moody? ALISTAIR? Damn people, how hard is it to get Alastor's name right?

I read this in no less than three different pieces yesterday. is it so hard to check the damned book for the correct spelling?

 

Just America in general is my peeve at the moment. So many Mary Sue exchange students from the super amazing Salem Academy. And of course, in America technology is perfectly integrated with magic, because they're not like those backwards purebloods (that they originated from a couple of centuries ago).

I just read a story where Atlantis itself washed up right next to freaking New York...

I'm hardly the first person to say this, but this just kept popping up in the stories I was reading.

 

When you get Lilly instead of Lily so often? And Weasely instead of Weasley?
Damn hard.

 

And Zambini. My god. :facepalm

 

And some authors puts AN in to right after that saying they think it is how spelled or something.In the middle of the story no less.

Good god just how stupid are these people?

 

To be fair, 'Alistair' is a more common name, particularly in Britain. 'Alastor' is derived from a relatively obscure Greek mythology reference, to the point that most modern spelling dictionaries don't recognize it.

That said, it certainly isn't hard to update a spelling dictionary as you edit (at least in MS Word), and mis-spelling character names is a general peeve shared by many.

Maybe we should develop Potter-friendly dictionary add-ons for Word, Opera, IE, Mozilla, Open Office, Abiword and a few other apps. Does DLP have a 'useful files' archive?


EDIT: The base word of Weasley is 'weasel' (the name switches the order of 'el' to 'le'), and it also is absent from the common dictionary.

 

Oh god - horocrux. It's so common, I think some editions of HP& The Whatever Book It Was Mentioned In must have done a typo.