Have to 100% agree with Sree. This story fuckin' sucks donkey ass. Its boring and very unrealistic. I would give this a 2/5. If that.

 

Banner, no offense but I saw your defense coming from a mile away. Every other non-flaming reviewer of the story shares your tastes, and unfortunately the fanbase for pussy!Harry, mysterious!Snape + Malfoy is very, very large. The 9300 reviews are proportional to 1000 for a Snape-less, more action-oriented fic, at most.

It is, of course, redeemable if Snape and Malfoy turn out to be acting on Voldemort's orders. Harry starts to go emo, but Snape is too fast, and decapitates Harry.

Petunia goes after him with the cast-iron skillet, and Snape beheads her after mocking her.

 

Ha, if that happened I might read the rest of it. I'd probably skip to the decapitating though.

 

Amen to that.

 

Yeah, I remember this one. Sree is pretty much right. I couldn't stand it. I like character driven stories, but this doesn't even have that. Its a retarded attempt to turn lame, obviously rotten characters into the authors idiolized envisionments.

 

This the one with Voldemort helping harry for some reason as harry travels Europe?

 

Simple math: Petunia + Redemption = Fail
Another prominent canon aunt in the HP series has almost the exact same dominant character traits as Petunia: behavior bordering on crazy or obsessive, an irrational hate of a race of peoples, a firm placement of their ideals above everything else.

In Petunia's case, these ideals are appearing normal; in Bellatrix Lestrange's case, it's following her master.

In neither case is it family, or their nephews.

 

I read this once. And I really liked it when I started reading it. But then about two years passed and I suppose I grew up. Now I fine myself skimming through the latest chapters as the interaction between Harry and his shrink no longer interest me. Just so you know Harry has mad super powers by the time you reach the current chapter. Voldemort is training him the magic book has trained him, and at this point he could probably take Voldemort and Dumbledore on at the same time. Of course then the story fails as Harry doesn't, instead he wants to meet Dracula or some bullshit. I agree with Banner it was a nice read, two years ago. Now I wouldn't start from the beginning if you paid me.

 

I bow before your flame, lord knows I love fire.

 

Ye GODS! This one is absolute CRAP! Petunia is fail to begin with, but the wanna-be psycho babble makes me homicidal. Like someone pointed out earlier, this sounds like a repressed GIRL! .5/5

 

Nail head, meet Vash.

 

And the whole time the thread rating goes up. And up.

Is it people not bold enough to come out and say out loud that they like the story? Frankly I'd like to hear a good reason to like this fic. There must be some.

Or maybe the rating's just DLP-ers showing their apprecition of the flame war...

 

This story is one of the biggest epic failures I've ever seen. I read this about 1 1/2 years ago, and I honestly don't know how I forced myself to read past the first few chapters. Around the 15th or so chapter, I couldn't take it anymore and had to stop reading. Even then, this story scarred me for life.

It's Pussy!Harry, Super!Harry, Cunt!Hermione, Redeemed!Petunia,Snape,Malfoy, Dumbledore bashing, OC clusterfuck, etc combined.

This is the quintessential anti-DLP fic if there ever was one. All it needs is Harry assfucking Ginny to be complete.

The author should hang herself.

-infinity/5

 

Love, there are chicks on this board, and most of them aren't lazy enough to spell 'you' as 'u', overlook apostrophes entirely, or forget to close brackets.

That issue being addressed: I have toyed with Petunia's character before. In Emma's defence, she's an interesting character, and there is certainly more to her than the two-dimensional child-abusing bint that she's most often portrayed to be. This is hinted at in DH, with the subtlety of a demented yeti, when it is revealed that she somehow wrote to Dumbledore and begged him to let her attend Hogwarts with Lily. Also -- always a good point -- she hates Snape.

Even when disregarding DH, though, it's a lot of fun to show her in a different light. It's also more original and interesting than redeeming Snape, as nonjon (I think) pointed it out. BUT it has to be done with more finesse than that of aforementioned demented yeti. In other words, you can't just show her acting in a way that's completely at odds with her every action of the past 14 years, and explain it all away in a few lines that painfully strive to make the reader forget about the foam-covered frying pan that nearly met Harry's head in CoS (first chapter, after he pranked Dudley in the garden, in case you're wondering).

Why would you try such a thing, anyway? She's so much more fun as a bitter bitch! A nice, well-rounded story in Petunia's PoV (preferably first person) can do a very good job at showing the true motives behind her actions, letter to Dumbledore AND frying pan included. Giving her a third dimension. Enabling her to be 'redeemed', even. To be frank, I think it's possible (with a lot of work and dedication) to have her do her best to protect Harry, albeit grudgingly and with a bad grace that, if properly written, could be a treat to read. Vernon, on the other hand, just isn't to be salvaged. Too stupid.

So back to the matter at hand: I don't think character development is a strong point in this story, at least in the first few chapters I read some time ago. There's Petunia, of course (see above); Hermione, who would hardly break the Statute of Secrecy, and has such faith in magic and in Dumbledore that she would never leave Harry locked away in a Muggle institution if she believed he needed help; Harry, finally.

Some of you, Sree in particular, said that Harry was reacting like a girl. Objection, your Honour. I don't think there's something so simple as a cause/consequence link between oestrogens blood level and reacting as Harry does in this story. Most teenage girls might react to abuse by weeping, losing appetite or whatever; most teenage boys might do the exact contrary when facing the same circumstances. There are exceptions, however. The thing is, I don't think Harry is an exception... I think he's a rather tough kid, even in canon, contrary to what most think here. I think he's naturally cheerful and impulsive, and needs a LOT to really break down; you just need to look at how quickly he made friends and adjusted to Hogwarts. Of course, some may argue that JKR just doesn't know how to characterise properly a boy that's been neglected for most of his childhood, but please let's not go there, or at least wait till I've had my fourth mug of blacker-than-black coffee.

So, in the end, I pretty much forgot what my point was. I won't rate the story, since I haven't read it all and it would be unfair to the author. As for Sree's flame, some of the imagery he used made me want to claw my eyes out so I could clean up my retinas with something highly corrosive ("Britney's vagina"?! Seriously?!), and I thought the 'GO SUCK A COCK AND DIE' was a little over the top -- made me worry for his blood pressure for a moment. However, none of those two things can EVER be worse than the horrifying typo I found at first read. "Site" instead of "sight"? The world has collapsed!

Good flame.

 

I got annoyed during the later chapters.

A review I posted a long time ago on her story is below.

Context: Basically, Harry had been trained by Merlin's teacher and become the most powerful wizard in the world (e.g. could use wandless magic at will). I remember that he started as a baby under the guy's tutelage and the author had a lot of fun having Merlin's teacher take care of Harry as a baby and Harry act...as a sweet child and cry and hug and so on. But that's another story.

Anyways, I was pissed off that Harry went to train with Voldemort ("training" consists of the liberal application of the Cruciatus Curse and whipping by Voldemort) and didn't just AK the guy, since Harry was the most powerful wizard in the world. That's what the first paragraph of the review is about.

Then Harry went to Hogwarts or something and drank a cup of tea Dumbledore gave him, which made him go under Dumbledore's magical guardianship. The problems with that are outlined below.

The author actually replied with a nice response defending her actions, but I don't have the answer here (I deleted the e-mail account I was using). I think that's how she gets a lot of reviews - by replying to reviewers and sucking their dicks.

Edit: Oh, I'm remembering more and more of the story as I type this.

I think Harry's psychiatrist found out about Voldemort's training regimen and they had a long talk in which Harry cried a lot and thought angsty thoughts that he had to do everything himself and so on.

Then Harry cried some more under Dumbledore's loving care because he wanted to got home to his aunt.

I wonder how many times Harry emoed during the story.

 

I've tried to read this story several times, but I've never gotten past the first few paragraphs. I'm glad that's what happened.

Darius, go ahead with chapters 7-12. Let's see what damage you can work.

 

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Let me sum it up. You gave a very good review (excellent, even). She apparently replied, politely, yet without "sucking your dick" as you so originally put it, since she defended her actions. Also, as many people pointed it out before, she has 9,000+ reviews. You think it's humanly possible to reply to all of them? No, she probably does like the rest of us, and replies to those that call for a reply.

All in all -- I'm seriously wondering where the fuck the sentence I underlined came from. I'd really like to know, because right now, it's so completely coming out of the blue that it just makes you sound like a bandwagoning ass.

 

She might have a template. If she gets a standard "Liked it, update please!", which I would think is the most common type of review she (and most authors) get, she could have one thanking them and saying she hopes to update soon. If she gets criticism, she could write an original review reply.

So, copy and paste jobs.

 

I remember this fic. I was reading it back when it had fourteen or so chapters. Back then I didn't really understand what it meant for a work of fiction to have good character development. DLP has definitely made me appreciate fanficiton with real quality, and driven me away from fics like this one.

At the moment I don't really remember very much about the story's plot, but I remember that I stopped reading just after Harry's karate instructor gave him some kind of gift, an ancesteral sword or something simmilar. If I'm completely wrong about that, I would like to apologize. I sometimes confuse stories like this one with others I've read.