In the story it's an aura that some special people can form around themselves that stops pretty much all conventional magic. Some make stronger auras than others. The really special can form that aura into blades and use them offensively.

I also forgot to mention in my last post that Harry has taken to using pop cultures memes in his jokes now. We've gone past scraping the bottom of the barrel and actually digging into the ground now.

 

Congratulations are in order: it took 47 chapters for a character to seriously acknowledge that something was clearly wrong with Harry.

The characters' behaviour is still incredibly jarring for me. Nothing new. This issue kept me from taking the story seriously, and it just keeps getting worse. Additionally, the sheer amount of repetition is killing me. Every single chapter, without fail, there's that same description and that same piece of dialogue and that same joke which we've seen no less than 30 times before. It's not doing the story any favours, imo.

The humour now makes me want to punch the screen, and the "romance" (even without the smut) is just cringe.

I'm a hatereader at this point.

 

and here I thought the answer was gonna be something to do with Hagrid

 

Haven't seen this fic mentioned yet - I'll Steal You

I'm only about 10 chapters in so far but its been a lot better than I was expecting given the basic title and summary. It a very readible fic, easy to digest in small bites. Has good banter, both characters are just the right amount of sassy, and I think thats my favorite part. Plot isn't particularly tight, which is fine as the story isn't spending more words on the stations of canon than canon itself. 10 chapters in and its gone from y1 to y3 already. The one thing I'm not a huge fan of is POV switches, as there's a fine line between story telling and reaction farming. I like it when it's summer penpal letters, but the story might be going beyond that, idk yet.

 

Took me a bit to finish this, and while I liked this, I wouldn't recommend it to DLP. There's no substance. Daphne's presence doesn't change a single thing - they even killed Fred off in the final battle when they didn't have to (Daphne's only dream other than to be with Harry was to be a mediwitch, but in the final battle she does nothing). It's a very fluffy fic, to the point where you lose track of the canon plot, its like the author wrote 10 chapters but only posted even numbered chapters, leaving you wondering how much time has passed. There's a few moments of manufactored drama but they're hamfisted. Daphne has a very jealous chest monster. Oh, and the fic mentions the Greengrass curse for basically no reason, and honestly I'm sic of these fics including it -it's to the point where I'd rather read about Ice Queens than the curse. At least its finished though, which is worth something.

 

You link wasn't working for some reason, but I think this is the fic you mentioned.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61379824/chapters/156892099

I'm going to give it a go.

 

Here ya go, from 2022, bwahahahaa:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/42527244?view_adult=true

 

That was fantastic, would recommend.

A long, on going Haphne fic from the same author https://archiveofourown.org/works/43314273. I have yet to start it, so I can't attest to its quality. But it looks like Daphne and Harry will star as a dark magic using power couple.

 

It's far from the best thing I've ever read, but it does have some potential. I'd recommend it if you really like the pairing. The writing seems to be getting better as it goes on too.

 

Just going to necro this to say that he has and he was.

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For all the existential dread that was placed around this character, his entire presence in the story consists of him offscreening Bellatrix and then getting mogged by Harry in the span of half a chapter.

 

True, but then again with how conceptually OP the author made Harry, such that by the very rules of Agwyd and the deal he made with Etayn, he literally cannot be harmed, it couldn't really have gone any other way.

Well, it could have, but it would have required a different story. One where Harry hasn't been no-diff'ing experienced Agwydklezes for a hundred chapters. I was hoping the author would try to make it more dramatic in some way, like they did with the Voldemort fight, but alas.

It's a big letdown, but predictable. And very disappointing. And of course Avalon went the same way. The fic absolutely could not deliver on the hype it managed to build.

I am debating a lIbrary submission, but I am very torn.

 

It's the definition of a 3.5 fic. Worth reading, great ideas, well written, but ultimately falls short at the final turn of the race.

The Dune inspirations are vast, but I can't help but feel he either didn't go far enough or went too short. I can't decide. The auror oath thing is basically the Litany of Fear, there's a horrifying destiny for the protagonist that he resists, shit like that. Golden path vs the Autumn of blood and Winter of death so we get to Spring eternal. Harry is stupid OP, but it makes sense in the context that for like 120 chapters out of 125 he literally can't experience the emotion of fear and that makes his agwyd impenetrable until he gives it up at the end.

I've read the whole finished thing, and it does basically end with

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Take them to paradise and wedding Princess Irulan Aeronwen and "setting aside" Chani Daphne. The only other thing worth mentioning is that the author is done with this, so there's no sequels. Who knows, probably Harry would balk near the end and it would turn to his child to be the tyrant for four millennia as a human sandworm abomination creature god emperor... house elf-nundu-human-creature?

I will say that the final battle with Voldemort and, especially, the followup through the veil would have been a far more satisfying ending for me if he was just going to fuck off any sequels. I thought that chapter was truly magnificent.

 

Damn, I had not made the connection to Dune before you mentioned but now I can't unsee it.

 

Maerdrid is, at the end, a more impotent Feyd-Rautha. At least while 1v1'ing the Messiah. The only thing that could have made the Dune influences more on the nose was if Emyr Pendragon was so fat he needed levitation charms to move or was revealed to bugger young boys.

 

I guess it's better that there's no sequel forthcoming. Author would have to do something to massively depower Harry in order to have anything resembling tension. As for the one spoiler.

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I had thought the change with the pairing to be surprising, but it does make some sense. Marrying the last Pendragon mollifies Emyr's retainers and potentially forestalls a broader ICW invasion. I just wonder if Harry gets rid of Daphne altogether or if they're still sleeping together nine nights out of ten while Aeronwen is just the wife on paper.

 

For just a creative exercise, what would be the equivalent to going from Messiah Paul to the Blind Prophet of the desert in this universe after some weapon of mass destruction that burned his eyes? Loss of his wand and wand arm?