You gotta admit Haraldas is a pretty original name.

A wrong-boy-who-lived story. Harry gets neglected by his parents due to the mistake Dumbles made. His brother Michael gets chosen by Dumbles as the boy who lived. Dumbles/Weasley/Granger and some Potter Bashing. Powerful!Harry. Pairing: Harry Potter/Daphne Greengrass.
Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 4 - Words: 4,815 - Reviews: 11 - Favs: 65 - Follows: 105 - Updated: Dec 16 - Published: Dec 14 - [Harry P., Daphne G.]

Who the hell is Dumbles?

 

Does that mean Ron, Hermione and Dumbledore are having a threesome?

 

That last line always manages to crack me up.

 

It was unique 10 years ago I guess. Also, it does have the most original replacement name for Harry.

 

The Masks of Real Heroes
Harry said no when Hagrid came with his Hogwarts letter. He had no choice; it was his only option. He'd never made a worse decision in his life... Abuse

Found this on AFF.net. They are a treasure trove of bad summaries and bad fiction all around.

 

Jane not only picked her nose, but the Malfoys also witnessed her eating its contents; she used her sleeves in place of napkins; would belch loudly, especially at the dinner table; spilled food all over herself, the table, and the floor when she ate; frequently abandoned her cutlery altogether to pick at her meat and vegetables with her grimy fingers. My O.C. is not a Mary Sue.
Rated: M - English - Drama/Family - Chapters: 20 - Words: 115,216 - Reviews: 11 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 6 - Updated: 20m ago - Published: Nov 21 - [Narcissa M., Lucius M.] Draco M., OC

Well...at least the OC isn't a Mary Sue?

 

Well... I'm glad I wasn't eating when I saw your post.

 

Why? Why did this have to be shared?

 

There are worse out there. We're barely scratching the surface.

 

Not surface, really.

 

Since we were allowed to pick any fandom, here:

I have no words, only tears.

 

I know I've mentioned this before, but why the hell is this in a "worst summaries" thread? Except for one missed conjunction, it's grammar and punctuation are excellent, tells me enough about the story and the main character that I can make a decision whether I want to read it or not (not, for me), and lets me know it's probably going to be a "Taming the Shrew" type story, with Malfoys in general and Draco in particular trying to be the tamer.

Maybe it belongs in a "Horrible Stories" thread, but not a "Worst Summaries" thread.

 

Is it really horrible if it's obviously hilariously bad by intent?

 

If the purpose is to be hilariously bad, then no, which is why I put maybe at the beginning of the sentence.

 

If everyone is so bent out of shape about bad stories not necessarily having badly written summaries. I would say create a new thread called "Terrible Story Ideas".

 

Naa, no story idea is actually bad, it's the execution or triteness of it being redone a thousand times.

 

Why me I'm not the one complaining about the summaries being posted?

 

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The treasure Hunters apprentice ::Hadrian dilectissimi Prewett is the last of his family, as the last immortal he did everything he wanted to,he only has one want left, a student. Enter Raven Potter the Girl-Who-Lived, after Albus calls in an old favor he gifts the child a powerful gift, but who could resist those cute puppy eyes? taking her for a student he teaches her his favorite pastime, raiding for treasure.Rated: T - English - Adventure/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 906 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Published: Dec 21

 

Volcanologist

Being treated by Unspeakable Malfoy for a curse that’s slowly turning him into stone, having Malfoy see into his mind with telepathic magic and seeing into Malfoy’s mind in return, shows Harry something he’s looked for a long time.

 

Cleaning it up a bit: H. D. Prewett is the last of the immortals, and is ready to pass on, but for his lack of successor. But when an old friend calls in a favor, Old Prewett finds both a reason for living and an apprentice, all in one.

That's not a /good/ story, and I haven't really taken the time to try to make it especially appealing, but it has the foundations of one, especially if divorced from Harry Potter entirely.

The thing is that a bad story, if taken to enough of an extreme, can become good: male pregnancy, for example, is ridiculous, but if a serious author were to consider the apparent ability for magical men to have literal manchildren in, say, a cultural/political/feminist sense, it could be a fascinating look at an alien society through a unique lens, ala Samuel Delaney's Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand. There are almost no bad stories; merely bad lenses to view them through and poor authors.

E: As for content:

there is frank and alice, indeed