It's a good story, I particularly liked that Sniper Wolf beat the crap out of those kids, highly amusing. While the story is great, the best part in my opinion are the omakes; I was laughing so hard while reading the ones involving the infamous cardboard box disguise. I really hope this gets updates soon.

Sniper Wolf and Harry seems like a good pairing.

 

<<Just give it a few more chapters til he gets to the major break then judge it. He's said multiple times that he wanted to stick pretty close to canon while keeping it quite short until year 4. Where he's gonna put in different challenges and everything.>>

I've given them enough rope...and they hanged themselves...

Changes occur which changes other things ad nueaseum..so keeping to canon for the first 3 years is not realistic at all...

and thats where I have a problem....if he wanted to to do so many things in book 4 then start there, all he has shown is that he lacks the imagination to look forward and see the changes he has made change the future..from book 1...

as to giving him a chance..and rehashing things....heh

tired and off to sleep...if you like the story, read it..if you hate it..then don't read it..simple

just don't squash free speech...

ThunderGod

 

Of course it's realistic. Perhaps keeping too close to canon is not what you look for in a fic (generally, a criticism I can sympathize with), but it is realistic. In the canon up to this point, just about every single significant action taken by Harry has been a response to highly contrived situations, frequently outright engineered by someone else. Given that nothing Big Boss did until the latest chapter, where he confronts Lucius, has made any truly significant impression (likely because he was unknowing, if suspicious, of the need to do anything), why shouldn't the situations be rather similar? And given the situations are similar, why shouldn't Harry react to them analogously? Except for some details, Harry isn't much different from canon at this point. He hasn't been trained by Big Boss or anything of the sort; it would be much too generous to call a few tricks he has been shown 'training'.

I can sympathize with the slowness of the story in terms of divergence from canon--only now are we seeing any resolve on the part of Big Boss to actually become truly involved in wizarding affairs, which is a bit late in the fic, unless the author plans this to be a long novel (dubitable). But the fact remains is that the author didn't introduce any truly substantial changes in the beginning--Big Boss becomes aware of the wizarding world, but so what? He hasn't actually done much of anything in the wizarding world, mostly because there was no apparent need to do anything. This isn't a problem of realism, but rather simply starting with a divergence that was too small to be as interesting as it could have been.

But even if the story is finally getting move on in the latest chapter, the characterization of Big Boss is weaker than ever. For example, he threatens Lucius' life by essentially telling him that Lucius has no need to worry about court because he'd be dead, which would have been fine by itself, but right before that he discusses possible repercussions from a legal battle... this does not compute. It's as if Big Boss only thinks of killing Lucius after he already threatened litigation and social embarassment. If Big Boss was going to threaten his life, he would have decided on doing so immediately, rather than making a fumble of contradicting threats.

On the other hand, Sniper Wolf++.

 

Just pointing out that even though he has only made minor changes in the Harry Potter Universe, the fact that Big Boss scraped the Outer Haven plan is a very big change from the Metal Gear storyline. The fact that there is most likely no Outer Haven means that Solid Snake will not kill Big Boss, and might stay in Foxhound and not decide to retire when he does.

 

One was Big Boss playing Civil infront of the idealistic old twit whom he has figured out is an incompitant old meddler. The other was Big Boss being his bastard.

Outer Heaven is still around, he's just reevaluating it and introducing a magical element to help strengthen it.

*grins* I helped him work out those scenes.

 

Help him more, maybe he'll update faster!

 

He's working on his other fic, Firewarrior's Guide to the Galaxy, right now. I'm as disapointed as you are

 

Whats Firewarrior's Guide to the Galaxy about?

Maybe a crossover or spinoff of Hitchhikers guide?

 

Nope, a Warhammer40K fic

found here

 

Wish he'd update soon. I've been checking repeatedly for days! 's a great story and I can't believe he left us on that damn cliffhanger for so long!!! I want more!!!

 

He's sick and its making it hard for him to write.

 

Ahh, fair enough. I didn't know that, so just give us some notice as to when he's writing again.

 

Her better and now the lazy ass is better and playing Star Control 2. Feel free to start anoying him again now.

 

Any word on an update status?

8/5

 

He's in the late semester/X-mas stress rush at the moment. Give him some time

 

Can't fault him for that. I'm waiting for him to diverge from canon, though I wish he had done that sooner, but his vision I guess. Any other people who have tried their hand at this cross over? I think it has a lot of untapped potential.

 

I liked it so far. Its well written and has an enjoyable plot line. Like most people here I would like to see more originality in the hogwarts plotline. I would be terribly disapointed if this story turned into another one of those were a highly skilled Harry continues on normally at Hogwarts with Ron and Hermione as his best friends. On that note I truly hope this doesn't become a Super!Friends fic. The character of wolf seems to have alot of potential that I think the author can develop. A possiable future romance between her and Harry would definetly be interesting to see. The dog also has too much resemblance to Sirius's animangus form for comfort but we'll see how that plays out.

Great fic over all 5/5

 

Third year is where is going to branch off, fourth year is going to start to become noteably diffrent (within conditional limits), and year five... well... lets just say its going to be almost nothing like canon

Just because your friends are not killer ninja's doesn't mean you don't value thier friendship.

Super Friends, no... useful friends, maybe. But Ron is not going to become the reincarnation of Teddy fucking Roosevelt or anything...

She is a canon metal Gear character, and personlly I think she 'developes' rather well...

That was actually setting up for an element of Wolf's personality. In Metal Gear Solid there is a pack of especially vicious wolf-hounds that will rip apart anyone who's not her.

 

Thanks for clearing some of that up, I should have mentioned that I don't know anything about MGS so that explains some of my questions, sorry.


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I would be terribly disapointed if this story turned into another one of those were a highly skilled Harry continues on normally at Hogwarts with Ron and Hermione as his best friends.

Just because your friends are not killer ninja's doesn't mean you don't value thier friendship.

My comment came out not the way I intended. I don't mean that Harry shouldn't be friends with them but I wouldn't want the story to be the cannon with the exception of Harry's new abilities but you already addressed this in one of the other comments.

Is this story hosted anywhere besides spacebattles?

 

Not bad so far. Though I wonder what Big Boss will do when he comes into the house and see's a gun point at Harry? Maybe break both of her arms to teach her a lesson? Because at the end of the day I did get the feeling that he didn't really want her around and he is very protective of Harry.

3/5