I also thought this was already in the library. I remember reading this quite a while ago, and just gave it a another read.

Still a 5/5 for me.

Incidentally, this story was the 'inspirational prequel' to the Albus Potter and the Mispent Youth series, if I am remembering correctly.

 

I thought it was touching. What it lacked in length, it made up for in heart. I don't think I've ever liked a Creevey this much before.

 

Really good. This makes me think about a book I have with photos and stories of soldiers in Iraq. I can almost picture the exact same thing with the survivors of the war.

5/5

 

A nice one-shot, nothing truly moving but a good read none the less. 4/5 from me.

 

I really loved this one, it made me smile in a bittersweet kind of way. There were two scenes in there that really stood out for me: the first Lavender portrait where she's not only displaying her massive scars but actually flaunting them with pride, they are her spoils of war and the other scene was with Arthur and Molly when they stood in front of their grandfather clock with their hands joined and Dennis mentioned the little clock-hand that represented Fred that the two of them had held onto even after so long.

Very touching story that was only compounded with solid, soulful writing. There was just this element of detachedness so that whenever Dennis came right in and explained something emotionally, it really hit the reader. I don't know if I'm explaining this well but this story stands out for me.

5/5

 

This is easily the single best oneshot I've ever read, in any fandom. 5/5

 

...this is an interesting review

 

Ehh.. Personally I liked Evil Be Thou Good a fair bit more than this.

This story was decent though.

 

This. There was nothing in this that captured me at all.It wasn't remotely compelling or special.

I'll go 3/5 purely because the technical aspects of the writing are good and I appreciate what the author was trying to do.

 

5/5

I liked this oneshot very much, but I find it odd that none of you managed to mention the actual punchline.

Everyone had their scars, and no matter how cute or hideous, small or big they were, they wore them with pride. And anyone knowing how they got them would stare at them with respect.

Except for Draco Malfoy's scar. Where the Dark Mark was, there's now a small, almost negligible scar, but it is a true scar, one that will make people retch and stare at him like he's an abomination.

I think he is scarred more than anyone else in the fic.

Just a thought, a quick conclusion.

 

To each their own. I found EBTMG to be poorly constructed, and I found Ruskbyte's characterizations of the Cenobites a bit weak. It may have been more enjoyable if I found Hellraiser to be remotely interesting, but I must admit the entire franchise makes me roll my eyes. The quality of the prose was excellent, but the story itself was rather average.

 

The story is decently written.But it's no 5/5 material.

I give it a 4 at most.

 

Couldn't have said it any better, when I was reading this I could see my friends sitting for the same pictures.

5/5

 

Haven't been so annoyed at a tug on the heartstrings since my dog died in Fable 2.

...and I'm not even joking.

4/5

 

Well, that's why Neville's not the hero. That's how you make one character a little bitch in three sentences.

Also, Evil Be Thou My Good is 40,000k words, and if Ruskbyte divided it by years and posted it in chapters, fewer people would be misled into thinking it's a one-shot.

If Joe posted the entirety of Wastelands of Time in what is technically one chapter, that wouldn't make it a one-shot either.

 

I thought it was rather poignant as well. There is a lot of scar symbolism in canon, and I rather liked this as an example of a non-physical scar. Not only that, it nicely tied the first war into the second.