They added a #### load of javascript to the site these days. I started experimenting with adblock pro in Firefox while saving as a single file webpage and the differences are illuminating!

By blocking:

fictionalley.org/shared/js/*

I take out three seperate scripts that for some reason need to load with each page. I also get a file that is only 26.3 KB. Its still bigger but nowhere near as big as before I blocked all scripts. As a side note, I should add that by blocking scripts from the site I manage to really speed up the site!

I repeat what I said before... something ain't right!

--bornagainpenguin (who hopes someone who knows what they're talking about could investigate the javascripts running over on fictionalley!)

 

So like...is there going to be any discussion about the actual STORIES at some point?

 

I dunno...I'd have to read it first!

[adds the fic to his cue for reading on his Zire 72]

--bornagainpenguin

PS: Sorry about this... could you split this discussion to a new thread in general discussion? I will comment on it, just need to get around to it with the other thirty or so fics I have ahead of it...

 

Wow.. this is a really old one. i had this on my old computer i loved it when i first read it years ago, but now it irks me because harry slept with almost every female character introduced into the story, but yea i loved it. it had everything, wandless magic, martial arts, super harry,3somes,dementor killing patronuses and this fic is about 3-4yrs old.

And yes harry is superstrong and very talented but its explained away as gifts inherited from voldemort, but his kids are even stronger then he is, god i loved this fic!

 

The Flying Squad Universe stories are to my knowledge the best Harry/Cho fanfiction.

"Flying Squad" is definitely library worthy, as is I believe its immediate sequel. The story line does lose a bit of its luster later on.

I'm rating it 4 stars just for "Flying Squad" because the first story's quality.

 

Doesn't seem to have aged all that well.

Odd stuff aside, the writing seems a bit rough, and the characterisation isn't all that good.

I'm mostly reading on for the WTF factor, and am not expecting having to change my initial rating.

ETA: The story becomes more solid after Hogwarts starts, but the canon continuity errors jar me quite a bit. The plot doesn't seem to have a direction, Voldemort's side in the war seems to have an under-powered influence, and I've just rediscovered why JKR didn't have another Ball after GoF. So the story seems a better time-waster than I suspected, but I still haven't seen enough improvement to change the rating.
2/5