I meant HP/Btvs crossovers not crossovers as a whole I thought I made that clearer.

 

I think he meant that HP/BtVS xovers in general are not well liked.

He'd be right, but only because 99.5% of them are shit.

This goes into my top five in this genre simply because the author managed to leave both timelines basically intact, and we don't get post-Chosen scoobies showing up in OOtP and saving the day.

 

Story belongs in almost recommendable if you're interested in HP/BTVS, otherwise its pretty shitty.

 

Sometimes the author forgets his tense but overall good grammar. The story is in one word: average. Nothing new. It's basically Harry-in-Buffy-TV-show-and-kicking-as-and/or-angsting.

 

*Stock rehashing of an episode scene*
*Stock rehashing of an episode scene continues*
Xander jumps the script to make a remark about Buffy being a prostitute.
*Return to stock rehashing of an episode scene*

I wish I was making this up. Sadly it's still better than most HP/BtVS crossovers.

 

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/980429/1/The-Grim
^A short one-shot about that scene from Prisoner of Azkaban when Ron is dragged off by Sirius, from Ron's point of view.

It was always one of my favorite scenes in the book, and I thought this was interesting enough to at least merit a mention.

 

I enjoyed The Grim. It's a mildy interesting take on the scene. The bit with dying in the hand me downs felt like a very fitting thought for Ron.

I'd give it a three.

 

Title: Wendell and Monica have a Daughter

Author: Deluded Musings/Clell66519

Link to Fanficauthors.

Link to Fanfiction.net

Summary: A spin-off on the generic Harry and Hermione go to Australia to give her parents their minds back. What if the plan hadn't gone quite like Hermione wanted it to? It's a short one-shot coming in at about 10k words. I don't want to give away much more in the summary, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. I hesitated about putting this in for review or Almost Recommended and went with the latter, at least until I see other people's reactions to it.

 

The story was interesting and the motivations of the characters convincing enough most of the time, with very good technical writing thrown in. But the ending keeps me from giving it more than 3/5.

Spoiler

The author's need to punish Hermione not only with her own memory loss and the disapproval of her parents, but also with the end of her friendship with Harry due to a single punch to the nose directly after she regained her marbles... that was just too much and shows that the author wanted to castigate his Hermione more than write a plausible story.

 

I thought Hermione's reaction to Harry was pretty reasonable there - and even if it wasn't, it was just a spur of the moment rush of anger. Memory charming her parents was still a massive dick move, mind, but I don't think what she did there was all that bad.

 

The ending was terrible and wrecked what was a passable setup. This story belongs here, almost recommended, not posted in Review.

Besides, as one of a gazillion stories in a "this is a collection of one-shots" thingee like so many fanfiction authors seem wont to cobble together (Blot, Clell, nonjon, SharperV, BajaB, me...) it's not clear that the rec would work anyway because so many of the stories in his collection are quite horrible.

 

A Game of Style and Brutality got updated.
Can't remember if anyone has put it up for review.

 

https://forums.darklordpotter.net/showthread.php?t=21668

It's in the library.

 

Derp. Thanks.

 

Deathly Hallowed
Author: Shujin1 PM
The Tale of Three Brothers was not a legend. It was a warning. No one cheats Death. And luckily for Lily Potter, the promise of the Cloak's return in exchange for her son's life was a fair deal. Rewrite of Harry Potter and Death's Incarnate.
Follow/FavoriteRated: Fiction T - English - Adventure/Horror - Harry P. & Lily Evans P. - Chapters: 3 - Words: 17,904 - Reviews: 39 - Favs: 97 - Follows: 131 - Updated: 04-11-13 - Published: 04-05-13 - id: 9172846

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9172846/1/Deathly-Hallowed

Basically Lilly makes a deal with Thanatos and offers up the cloak in exchange for protection. She survives Voldemort and Harry grows up with Thanatos as a friend. I enjoyed it. It is only around 18k words and it is a rewrite, but the rewrite is much better than the original story.

 

The story so far is decent, but there's not much of it and the author's profile does not exactly fill me with hope.

 

The story reads well, and I'm left pretty interested in the circumstances of Halloween 1981. But as Saot says, there's only 3 chapters so far, and not much has really happened yet.

Still, I like stories with a bit of underlying horror. Not enough of those, imo. I'll be following it to see how it goes.

 

It a rewrite of a story that was pretty good from what I recall. It may even be in the Library but I'm unsure.

 

https://forums.darklordpotter.net/showthread.php?t=10136

 

I liked this, though some of the stuff happening in Chapter 4 suggested things might get a little goofy with regards to power levels. I like this Lily a lot though, it's interesting how her survival doesn't feel like a cheap trick as it usually does.