Nick could possibly be her photographer, though I'm not gonna bother checking my copy of GoF.

 

The Veela-mate cliche was already mentioned in this thread. I assume the following two summaries summarise all thinkable plotlines or rather the lack thereof.


Not Your Usual Veela Mate by Janara at ff.net

Draco is a Veela and guess who his mate is? I've tried to write a Veela story where the two don't jump into bed immediately, hence the title. Will contain Dumbledore bashing. HPDM LMSS AU from book 5
Harry Potter - Fiction Rated: M - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 61 - Words: 364689 - Reviews: 4421 - Updated: 9-18-06 - Published: 9-9-05


Bond by Anna Fugazzi (Chapters: 22) at fictionalley's AstronomyTower

It seems 95% of H/D writers feel compelled to write a "Harry And Draco Are Forced To Be Together By Something Beyond Their Control And Then Unlikely Stuff Happens That Leads To Twoo Wuv" story. Count me among the 95%
Rating: R - Spoilers: PS/SS, CoS, PoA, GoF, OotP, QTTA, FB - 2662 hits - 186790 words
Genre: Slash, General - Main character(s): D, H - Ships: D/H - Era: The Harry Potter at Hogwarts Years Published: August 1, 2005 (after Half-Blood Prince) - Updated: July 14, 2006


The number of reviews of the first story indicates that announcing the lack of an original plotline is highly attractive for huge numbers of ff.net-readers.

 

Life and Times of Harry & Adrien Potter by BunniLOLI
Before you freak out and completely ignore my story because sibling stories suck major banana popscicles. Adrien isn't a girl. This is non magic and HD slash. So HA! X3
Fiction Rated: M - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 11 - Words: 10720 - Reviews: 85 - Updated: 10-5-06 - Published: 4-2-06

Right, non-magic fudge packing fest with Marry Sue self-insert is SO much better...

 

::Sighs:: What's the deal with the AUs with no magic anyway? If they want to write stuff like that they should just make up their own names and head to fictionpress to post an original story that, well... isn't very original. Crap-fests should be posted on their own website where people with good taste can avoid them.

Ron finds out he’s the heir and reincarnation of Merlin. Along with that, he has to bring back the Monarchy of Queen Hecate by training her heir, Heather Quincy. A third rating would be comedy because of what happens to Harry…


I even read some of it and the writing style had me almost banging my head on my desk. Not my type of story definately. It's called Ice Queen. Che, and apparently Ron's friends with a vampire who taunts Hermione and Ginny.

 

...No. I really don't.

 

hary potr dies by The The The
just what it says on teh box ratd t for deth
Complete - Fiction Rated: T - English - Spiritual/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 8 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-9-06 - Published: 10-9-06

 

Shadows of love by L.S.T.P
Having your legs spread and a wanton man on top of you was not something Ron was used to. And it seemed unreal, he having his legs spread up by a Malfoy. And it was going to happen, he was about to be fucked, the only Ron could think was, finally.
Fiction Rated: M - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 7 - Words: 18459 - Reviews: 35 - Updated: 10-9-06 - Published: 3-1-06

Thought I should post this before it gets deleted. Nice way to traumatize general FFN audience...

 

8 Words? The summary has more than that. Heck even title and author have nearly as much. Six errors in 14 words. That "story" is not worth my typing a response to >(

 

SerendipityRose, is a bad name, Chastity Clementine, shows me that the author opened a dictionary to a random page for each name.

 

An interesting question to be sure - of course, the classic answer is that it's easier to write with characters you already know, and has many fans of the genre. That way, pesky issues like background and characterization are already done for you - you can just jump RIGHT into the plot, however good or bad it may be. I will posit the theory that anyone who writes a "non-magic" AU, or an AU with characters that share only the names of the originals, is someone who either has never tried writing original fiction, has tried and failed, or has read another similar AU that they liked and thought "me, too!'.

-J

 

That tells me soooo much about the fic you have no idea.

 

To my shame, I was searching for Harry/Hedwig fics after reading A Lonely Summer and found this:

Caps Lock; most impressive. And why bother mentioning the bleeding owl if she's not in the story?

 

So that people like you look for it!

 

After Hermione is badly raped by Viktor Krum, she swears off sex forever. Can Harry help heal her and teach her the joys of lovemaking? (one-shot)

badly raped, as opposed to the good kind

 

Well... there are people in the world with rape-fantasies. To them, I guess it's good; I wouldn't know since I don't have those. Nonetheless, "badly" isn't really a word that one could use to describe rape. Actually, personally, I hate that adjective. It isn't eloquent enough to be written to describe anything.

 

I think the trick to writing a REALLY bad summary is two fold.

1.) You have to take your work WAY too seriously (Or not care at all, as seen by math typer)

and more critically

2.) You have to UTTERLY ignore that another human being will read this. The summary, to be exceptionally bad, must be entirely about how the author FEELS about his/her own work. With no acknowledgement that they are trying to entice someone into reading their work.

P.S. McTabby's a genius.

 

The summary in itself isn't bad, but the topic of the story ...

Muse by lostvoices
non magic, Harry goes to boarding school and during his hol’s he lives with Remus. Remus is an editor of a well known printing label. Severus is a renowned Romance novelist who is in search of a muse… maybe he’ll find what he’s looking for…
Fiction Rated: M - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 8 - Words: 20311 - Reviews: 39 - Updated: 11-2-06 - Published: 8-15-06

 

Right, wait wasn't this some romantic comedy or something. I think I saw it on the lifetime channel sometime. What is up with the world today?

 

Aarrgh. Now you made me look into the fic. This one really doesn't look like comedy. It rather seems to be deadly serious OOC MarySue non magical slash fluff.

Read and suffer

Spoiler

Harry went to bed that night with a smile on his face. He was so excited over being able to stay at "Severus Snape's" house all winter hols he found it hard to sleep. So, he pulled out his favorite book and fell into the lovely story about a young man who fell deeply in love with an older male and all the lovely sex they got up to during their summer retreat out on the lake.

Wanna even suffer more?

Spoiler

Dressing quickly for bed and doing his nightly routine, he climbed into bed next to the teen. As soon as Harry felt Severus' presence in the bed, he moved to snuggle against the man.

Sighing softly, the two were soon both asleep, cuddled up as only lovers-to-be could.