Hmmm, that was better then most of the stuff Clell churns out. Got a cheap laugh or five out of me to.

 

Marvel-verse has characters that can casually wave a hand and destroy a galaxy or two. I think you meant Avengers-verse.

 

I think he meant Marvel Cinematic Universe.

 

Ah. That does make some sense.

 

AFAIK there's nothing at all in canon to suggest that the DoM captures humans or does anything untoward at all. They seem to be the equivalent of university researchers?

Not to mention the British magical society in canon is practically guaranteed to be more backward than an American one which won't have existed long enough to have long-standing Pureblood families.

I didn't get the feeling that Fury had much in depth knowledge of the magical world, recognizing Harry is hardly a big deal. And again, from canon if Fudge was competent and doing what he was meant to in his meetings with the muggle PM then it is not hard to accept that if the Americans run the same system then Fury would know a little of the situation.

My thoughts anyway.

My gripes with the story were more with British magical society somehow being able to just rock up in America and do whatever, but I liked the reading the characters (George mainly) enough to push through.

 

The idea of the DoM being some super special BlackOps group has always bugged me. An entire group full of badass operatives doesn't get coerced by Voldemort to publish 'research' that 'proves' his anti-muggleborn shit.

 

Floating brains and the Death Chamber are suspicious.

 

Doesn't mean they're special forces types. Floating brains and the Death Chamber seems pretty much right up the alley of high level researchers sworn to secrecy.

 

Perhaps they did it so he would shut up and let them play D&D in peace.

 

No more suspicious than the cadavers my friends in medicine sometimes use when learning, and the death chamber is just an artefact that they're studying.

I mean like, you can make an extrapolation in a fanfic that they're black-ops and run with it, but the idea that they're obviously super-secret-soldiers is really dumb IMO. Nothing substantive in canon to support that they'd have a need for it, nor any evidence of any Unspeakables having authority in law enforcement or any kind of combat experience (not even security guards).

 

Good point. My "suspicious" was about "nothing at all in canon to suggest that the DoM captures humans or does anything untoward at all", not about "they're black-ops".

Yes, it is typical "not contradicted by canon". What may be done well or badly (it is fanfiction therefore the second happens 99,9% of the time).

 

There are lots of academics with security clearances who do work for intelligence and military agencies (though to a much lesser extent). They're not actual intelligence or field officers however.

 

Saint Potter?
Sophie Theresa Potter. Grandfather/guardian: Seamus Tombs. Parents: James and Selene Potter, deceased, purportedly in a gas-explosion, Hallowe'en 1981 - except it turns out that actually they were killed in a battle with dark wizards, that Sophie is a witch, and that one 'Albus Dumbledore' wants her at his school and isn't likely to take 'no' as an answer. Alternate Universe.
Rated: Fiction T - English - Adventure - OC - Chapters: 9 - Words: 98,820 - Reviews: 54 - Favs: 75 - Follows: 74 - Updated: Jun 1 - Published: Mar 1, 2012 - id: 7883569


I do not know the books the crossover is based on, but I certainly recommend this story to you! It is very AU, extremely slow (we just started Hogwarts, after 90k words) but the writing is excellent!
There is no re-hashing of scenes we have read dozens of time. It is a good read.
Unfortunately, updates seem to be slow so it is questionable whether this story will ever really develop. Until now, it's more about wordl-building an character interactions than about plot and/or conflict. Still, a good read!
What is very nice: The author knows the concept of "show, don't tell" VERY well.
I will look into more of his stuff

 

Where's Lily in this whole thing? I mean, personally I'm not going to read it, because fem!Harry just isn't my thing (I'm not counting "Equal and Opposite" as such), but I'm curious about this particular matter. Would this fem!Harry even have those fairly trademark emerald green eyes?

 

So no Luna?, because selen KO good was her mother

 

Lily married Snape.
But it makes sense in this AU. It's not just to confuse people. The universe differs from canon in some small details, as if a point of divergense has happend about 1 generation in the past.. which is more or less the concept of the story.
And it is SENSIBLE!
Not just via putting the adjecitve "sensible" in some sentences but via showing sensible details.. sensible dialogue... I like it

 

D R O P P E D

There is no sensible reason for Snape procreating or marrying Lily.

 

Potter Law.
Learn it, Love it, Live it.

 

I don't think it's plausible that Lily would ever marry Snape. Just b/c they grew up in the same neighborhood, and were friends at Hogwarts doesn't mean that Lily was ever sexually attracted to Snape. From everything we saw in canon there is no evidence to suggest that Lily and Snape were anything more than friends, and, in Lily's case at least, it was a friendship born out of curiosity. I know it's an AU but there has to be something in canon that can make the AU believable, IMO.

 

You guys are ridiculous. Snape/Lily is basically the least unbelievable thing to come out of friggin' fanfiction, ever.