Sounds like the author doesn't know what this story is about, either. Thanks for all the useful info...

For the purposes of clarity, "combining," in this instance, means "varying types of penis-in-anus interaction." At least, that's what I'm guessing.

If they changed nearly every event in canon, leading up to the beginning of their fic, then perhaps it could be decent. Otherwise the characters should hate each other's guts.

If one pays any attention to the canon at all, though, the pairing is simply impossible. Most authors simply don't put in the effort to make the D/Hr pairing feasible. If one does not do that, then the story only 'works' because the reader wants it to... In other words, they ignore the poor storytelling for the sake of indulging their desire to read about that pairing. D/Hr has to jump the hurdle of believability before it can even dream of approaching 'decent.'

Or, the short version: Any story that even remotely follows canon but still has Harry saying, "Hermione and Draco as a romantic couple? Yeah, I could totally see that," is a bad one.

Bingo.

See, in my mind, that definitely qualifies as bad fanfic. When you write what is an original story but use the names of characters from an existing fandom, in order to benefit from the readers' emotional investment in those characters rather than putting forth the effort of getting people invested in your characters, you're being a lazy and disingenuous piece of shit.

If it says "Harry Potter," but the only thing the same is the names, it's not Harry Potter. For the purposes of a Harry Potter fan, it is bad fanfic. Since the author took that emotional shortcut of (purportedly) using characters from another series rather than getting you invested in their own characters the hard way, then their story is also bad for the purposes of original fiction. You take away the borrowed character names and it's a story with people in it you simply don't care about. That's a problem.

It fails as both fan fiction and original fiction.

Add plagiarism on top of that and I think we can agree that, whatever story you're talking about, it's just plain bad fic.

 

I think the only time I even enjoyed a DM/HG fic was when it involved Lucius deciding Draco was old enough to start learning about some of the things he did in his time as a Deatheater when he was 6 or something. Draco however was disgusted by what his father described and ran away from home.

But yea, as Warlocke said you Draco can't be anything like canon for it to work.

 

Some versions replace Hermione by OC (see pureblood Hermione stories, or at least this one that I encountered).

 

Master of the Universe didn't have any vampires.

 

Won't get any argument from me there.

And while we're on this subject, and to help bring this thread back on track, I present:

At first, it doesn't look so bad. A tad hard to read, maybe, but not as bad as some others.

But that's also precisely what makes it so bad. The sentence is extremely convoluted, punctuated incorrectly, and confuses the verb tenses as well. And that's the first sentence.

Second isn't so bad, except that it is missing a word and also punctuated incorrectly.

The sad thing about this summary is that it the author is close to getting it, but in this case, "close" only makes it that much worse.

 

Ew. Characters spontaneously becoming veela has to be one of the worst concepts in fanfiction.

 

At least author mentioned bashing in summary so it is easy to filter out this type of stories.

 

Is 100% worse when they make Harry a "male veela".

 

It's AU. As long as the backstory is built, I don't have a problem with it. But sticking with the canon storyline and the "Look! It's been a secret! You're suddenly a Veela!" is, as you said, a very bad concept.

 

Millions of people eating shit and liking that shit doesn't mean that what they eat is good. It's still shit.

Same thing with books. Good enough to be popular =! Good

Yeah, thankfully most authors do this.


Aaaand I'm done derailing.

 

My point, however, is that millions of people being on the opposite side of an opinion just might mean our opinion is either wrong, or that we're missing the larger boat.

That's all.

 

...who is in heat and accidentally got pregnant after a one night stand with Harry.

Because Male Veela dontchaknow?

 

But do you really want to get on on that nice boat?

(I'm sure some people will get it...)

 

Harry Potter: The Squib-Who-Lived by notthedoctor reviews
Harry Potter, born a squib, was changed the night his parents were killed. He may not show signs of being a powerful wizard, and he may not even be a powerful wizard. But just invited to attend his first year at Hogwarts, everyone will see how special he is.
Rated: T - English - Adventure/Romance - Chapters: 8 - Words: 43,433 - Reviews: 15 - Favs: 31 - Follows: 45 - Updated: 52m ago - Published: Aug 15 - Harry P., Luna L.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10622024/1/Harry-Potter-The-Squib-Who-Lived

 

I dunno, that summary seems pretty fine to me. What about it makes that a bad one?

 

Is he a squib or a Wizard? Lol

 

You can't tell from the summary whether he's a squib or a wizard (I guess you could assume he's a wizard since he's at Hogwarts).

 

Yeah, it might not be entirely clear, but that actually seems quite interesting. Will check.

EDIT: No, the writing sucks. Skipped to the third chapter and Harry seems to be a fully functioning wizard, though.

 

He being a Squib is a plot point, the plot point, it's not related to the summary, which is meh to a little bad, but the idea isn't bad per se.

Was done half decently before.

 

Hmm, not sure where to put this.

Got linked this story in a Lithuanian forum as a piece of so bad it's good writing:
Hogwarts School of Prayer and Miracles

That's the summary if you can't tell.

I guess controversy is responsible for 1.7k reviews alone, but seems to be a troll fic.