It'd been posted before, and went In Review awhile ago.

 

Oh I checked in the reviews and didn't find it, maybe it was in the recycle bin.

 

... are you fucking serious? Wait - it's beastiality, so you probably are fucking Sirius.

This fic certainly isn't "almost recommendable". Are your standards really as low as this story indicates?

A not entirely failsafe way to check if a story is already posted is to search DLP for the ff.net storyid, in this case: 6849022

It has already been posted in "Almost Recommendable":
https://forums.darklordpotter.net/showthread.php?p=487784&highlight=6849022#post487784 (by minhoto )
Later the author posted a commentary:
https://forums.darklordpotter.net/showpost.php?p=491550&postcount=970

 

And know I know for next time.
(I will not do the GI Joe joke here though)

 

How do you think I already knew it was posted

 

But you didn't remember where.

 

Quoting a very old post, but I haven't checked this thread for a while. I may be a biased Hermione-Harry fan, but I have very much enjoyed this story and followed it from the outset. Had some interesting discussions with the author, too. 4/5 at elast, from me.

 

Fairly decent romance story, with a good Luna characterizations, but a few problems keep this from being Library material.

There's only one plot thread beyond the romance, and while it might go somewhere interesting, there isn't much to judge by.

More irritating is that Harry's character seems to be an extension of Luna, much like many bad Harmony fics. Also, the nickname. Argh.

Still, not a bad read.

 

Just took a turn for the worse, methinks, with the latest chapter.

 

Yeah, I agree.

 

The writing is decent and the premise is original. The interactions between Sarutobi and Dumbledore are well done.

 

Rant ahead.

I'm so fucking tired of Harry and Ginny splitting up because she cheated on him, or blamed him for her brother's death, or because she died in a canon-deviating final battle. I'm so tired of these "True LOVE!!1!1!!" stories which, really, it should only be a rebound relationship. I mean, come on, if you want to ship Harry with someone else you can do better than that.

I swear I'm going to write a story, in which Ginny loves Harry but he drifts away from her and gravitates toward another female character just because love works like that in real fuckin' life; that said female actually competes with Ginny for Harry, that Harry is at once sympathetic and a douchebag because when you just happens to find someone else you love more you just have to follow your heart, etc etc.

 

I agree. That said, they aren't necessarily bad devices. It is just that they are overused and badly written in the vast majority of fics that utilize them.

Also, I'd read that, provided it had an actual story to go along with it, since Romance isn't really my genre of choice.

 

I'd just be happy if you finished writing your current story.

 

...Whoops.
Shutting up now :awesome

 

Title: Fate's Favourite
Author: The Fictionist
Pairing: Harry Potter/ Tom Riddle
Rating: T
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5725656/1/Fates_Favourite
Story Summary: You always get the stories where Harry goes back into Tom Riddle's time, then either stays or gets sent back. End of, unless he tries to make Voldemort good. But what if thing's went differently? What if, just once? someone followed a time traveller back?


Comments:
First of all, this is NOT SLASH. This is about a close friendship, but slash NEVER HAPPENS. I started reading this little piece when I was bored and not really paying attention to the pairings section. The idea looked cool, and had some potential. By the time I had woken up enough to pay attention to the pairing list, I was too into the story arch to just give up. Luckily for all of us, there is never any slash or even an oblique nod to them being gay lovers. The idea is really cool, the writing varies between moderately well written to well written, and the main characters are very well developed. Unfortunately, the chapters are short, the secondary characters are flat, and the story ends with several questions still up in the air. I would give it a 3/5, but I'm curious as to your viewpoints.

EDIT: ok, so its not actually complete. The author wrote "the end" at the end of the last chapter as a joke.

 

Well, I tried reading the first chapter and it's not looking so good. The author has NO idea how to write realistic interactions between people. It's one of those bad fanfics that makes me realize I'm reading a bad fanfic.

 

Its been a real long time since I started reading this, so go ahead and call the beginning shit -- I don't really remember anymore. I was more interested in the idea of paradox vs fixed timeline.

 

I started reading Fate's Favourite a while ago as well. Going back and reading the start it's truly terrible, however the writing has improved out of sight. It's nothing amazing: not only are the side characters undeveloped, they tend to say the same thing over and over again, but the author updates regularly - I'd say every two to three days, so there is constantly new material.

 

I figured I'd read this as well since I tend to like young Tom / Harry interactions even if they are usually total shit. The start of the fic is really abysmal, barely 1/5 quality and contains many things mentioned in the pet peeves thread. While there is no slash, there is definately something that could be slash, but I'm glad the author decided to not go there as it would totally tank this fic. I really wanted to stop reading this, because it was so bad, but kept going anyway, as I was under the impression it would get better. And it does, sort of.

Towards the end you can really see the author's writing improve and the plot seems to come together somewhat as well. The first half or so gave me a distinct impression that the author has no clue where the story is going and is mostly writing a weird type of fantasy. The whole time paradox thing isn't terrible though, and it's interesting to follow when the story starts to go somewhere with it. The major problem is I see as well is that many of the characters are totally unrealistic and you need a considerable amount of suspension of disbelief to be able to enjoy it at all. With a good rewrite it might be half decent though and I can see why people who are used to the average ff.net crap would really like this. I hope the author keeps writing and reads some good quality stuff as well, because I think there's a lot of space for improvement still.