People have pretty much said what needs to be said. Magical medicine, while advanced, is largely superficial. While their methods of dealing with broken bones, cuts, bruises, blood loss, and other common injuries is amazing compared to conventional medicine, ask a wizard healer to deal with cancer or AIDS and they wouldn't have the first clue where to start.

 

Had no idea mpreg dealt with that. Though when I saw shit-baby I immediately thought of south park. http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s11e09-more-crap

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This seems ok so far. I'm really impressed with the atmosphere. Unfortunately I was really disappointed with the scene between Mcgonagall and Hermione. I could accept The Doctor going back one thousand years and reserving a book for Hermoine to read. I could not accept Mcgonagall accusing Hermione of misusing the time turner to reserve that book. The idea that a student was given an item capable of changing 1000 years of history for the sole purpose of taking extra classes is mind boggling stupid.

 

The plot does seem a bit contrived at times and here and there the author could have done a slightly better job of explaining what's happened sometimes. And the romance... well, its a bit heavy and in your face, its a good fic if you've seen the movie though.

Perhaps not quite Library worthy but, Recycle Bin for sure.

3.5/5 from me as well.

 

Subject: [Dust and Ashes] by [EtchedInDiamond] - [T] (WIP)

Title: [Dust and Ashes]
Author: [EtchedInDiamond]
Rating: [T] (PG-13])
Genre: [Adventure/Supernatural]
DLP Category: [Dresden Files]
Pairing: [Epilogue Compliant]
Status: [Work in Progress]
Summary: [When the fate of the world rests on two men: And they can't stand each other. From their meeting to their ultimate battle, Harry and Harry's world will never be the same. Not good at summaries. No slash.]
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7448128/1/Dust_and_ Ashes

Pros: The battle scenes are interesting. The spelling is correct. Characterization is believable and a couple new spells.

Cons: It is Harry/Ginny and epilogue compliant. Thankfully, she only has two or three lines. Crossover is shoddily done. Grammar not always correct.

This rates a 'Meh' and a 3/5. In essence: it's OK if you want to waste 40 minutes reading something you haven't but if you want more quality Dresden fiction you should look in the WbA thread.

 

I personally don't like it. Potter/Dresden crossovers can work, but I don't see how this one can work when the author stuck both series in the same world. They are just too different to be compatible.

 

Both Shezza and Jon pulled it off pretty well.

 

I haven't read Abjuration, but Shezza pulled it off well under specific conditions: he took the parts that interacted together and ignored those that didn't. We have little of the wizard-wizard societies' interactions in the Denarian series because they are so different, and the conflicting rules they abide by would result in conflict that would take over the plot. He used the Faerie realms and the theologically-themed parts of Dresden, and specific characters (like the Carpenters, who again are independent from the Dresden wizarding society) since they enrich the world generally.

So there's some smart selection of story elements there in order to make it work.

 

Sure they pulled it off. But as Andromalius said they selected story elements that worked together. In both of those cases Harry Potter was basically the only one that lived in both the Potter universe and the Dresden universe.

This author didn't do that. He just mashed both universes together. In this story the only separation between the two is a separation of secrecy, like the separation between the non-magical and magical world. Any wizard in this story has the possibility of traveling between the two magical rule systems. And it just doesn't work, the universes are too different.

 

I thought Water Mage also pulled it off rather well, by the way.

And eh. I'm not sure I'll try and read that particular crossover story.

 

Harry Potter and the Arcana has started year 2, and the new chapter is actually really good. I feel it's a step up from the previous writing, for some reason.

 

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7505602/1/The_Horcrux_Within

This is just first chapter but it has very original idea and could be awesome story.

Could be very bad as well but I think it has promise.

 

I agree - the parallel between Harry and a fresh out of Hogwarts Riddle is quite interesting: I wonder where he's going with it?

 

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Honks. what if Ginny died at the Battle of Hogwarts and Tonks lived? Riddle is dead, the battle won, but the war is not yet over. Two grieving people have one chance to clean up the MoM for good, the clock's ticking, while caring for a baby half-werewolf.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 8 - Words: 129,398 - Reviews: 163 - Updated: 10-30-11 - Published: 10-3-09 - Harry P. & N. Tonks

Ignore the title. It's Political!Harry to the core. The story picks up straight from the end of book 7 with minor adjustments. Harry decides he wants to fix everything wrong with the magical government, and there's a hell of a lot wrong. The prose is a little dry to my tastes, and will never be completed, but it's worth a look.

 

This is actually really entertaining, even if the title is utterly misleading. Shaping up to be a solid fic. I probably would have posted it in the For Review thread had I found it. 4/5.

 

It's strange that this seems to imply it's entirely canon except for the very last battle, yet Harry acts like he has aged 20 years in a few hours. I realize that the death of a loved one can do that to you, but generally you go through the stages of grief first, while this reads more like Joe's Harry than canon Harry.

But the writing is solid and I laughed at the nod to Artemis Fowl in the first chapter.

 

Dammit, I missed the Fowl reference. Just finished reading the fic though. Good stuff, although it aggravates me that we're unlikely to ever see a conclusion.

 

That's because it uses the last battle from the movie not the books.

 

Yet we have the Malfoys at Hogwarts after the battle....didn't they flee in the movies? Also, I feel you missed Churchey's point.

 

I agree with Wise; this seems to be based on the books, not the movies. In either case, it doesn't matter because Harry in the movies was just as incompetent as Harry in the books. This isn't a canon rehash like WWSHD, it's a story where normal Harry lives through 7 years of Hogwarts and beyond before suddenly becoming Slytherin Harry.