Title: Harry Potter A Warrior's Path
Author: Lord Xero
Rating: T
Genre: Action/Adventure/Suspense
Status: WIP
Pairings: None for now (Ginny stays friend)
Summary: A postHPB fic. Harry decides that Occlumency is vital , but he finds it to be flawed. So he starts on his own. I intend this to be somewhat realistic. At least from my own experience.
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2718422/1/

A solid post-HBP Independant!Harry story. Harry starts practicing meditation and learns Occlumency on his own. Then he starts to train in all areas of magic, but primarilly in Transfiguration. It seams that the Author's goal is to turn Harry into a new Dumbledore (the only difference being him not being affraid to use Dark Arts).

As for the Weasley zoo and other characters, they are around, but there's none of that friends for life crap - Harry is doing things mostly on his own, while staying friendly with everybody.

Unfortunately a good start was partially ruined by rushing things too much. Every scene seems kinda half-arsed and too simplyfied, kinda like in Jacky Chain's movies. Hand in hand with this comes Harry's super-fast progress. Yes, it's good to see him growing some brain and training for skills, but enough is enough. He turns into a fucking mini-Dumbledore after 2 months of work, for christs sake!

Well, anyway, the guy is doing pretty well considering English is not his primary language. Pretty solid story so far for the first try.

 

Yeah, but with time turners and shit...

But I can see there's no other way. Without Dumbledore to keep Ridley at bay and with Harry being a brainless moron, there's not much chance for some decent training to happen. Best thing we can hope for is Dumbledore leaving all his knowledge in the Sorting Hat or some shit like that...

 

Never mind that. Harry training on his own is always preferable to simply getting all the knowledge served out to him... builds the character.

 

It'd be kinda like the matrix.

 

I hate time turner use in fics... but the way JKR set the world up, you pretty much have to mass use it to get him strong enough without using an overnight Harry angle =(

I like the way Dark did it alot, but his is the only fic I can recall off the top of my head that I've liked it in.

Marking this one to read later.

 

There's always Dumbles pensive as well. For one he could simply put in memories of advanced theory as a first lesson then adapt from there, or he could simply have Harry merge a memory of some arcane spells by putting the memory strand into his head?

 

I just read this....Its one of the better post-HBP...I want to see where it goes before making my judgement on this story.

 

I'm a bit divided on most of the Harry powering up methods. Mainly because you can only read training so many times. Then of course you argue whether your audience is someone who only knows canon, or someone who's read tons of fanfiction and is sick of all the same cliches you are.

Time-turner training is awfully cliched. Of course I took it to ridiculous levels. Maybe not quite as ridiculous as Vorlon666 did, but my lil humor trilogy is intended to be over the top in its superness.

Normal training is just tedious and boring having read it done a million different ways. And really any other method is sort of a cheat. Mind dumps, stealing Voldie's knowledge, legilimency can grab knowledge and skillsets (doesn't canon only ever really hint towards truth and show images of memories? As is it's not like words you read in a book... oh never mind). Other cheap cheats take an older wiser grown-up Harry and de-age him. Usually way too far. Or perhaps there's a gift from a future or alternate universe. Those I think I like best. Like the Mirror of Maybe, or even Ruskbyte's Father in Backwards Compatible. The Magi's trilogy, too, took a semi-interesting step further by giving him the knowledge of having lived other certain fics, so it's like letting the authors before you have pulled off the hard work, as well as recommending some good fic for pre-reading.

But I don't know how many more times I can read about animagus training. Turning into an animagus immediately is cliched and cheap. But it saves me tedious repetition. So I'm indifferent when they use the time turner or some other quick cheat.

And I think I'll give this fic a try. Rushing things I'm usually a fan of.

 

sooo ...

Hey guys, it's not that I don't appreciate the attention, but really, how DID you get to the idea of a Sorting Hat training in my fic? :shock: really :?

 

Then if it's like this you have Weasle to contend with as he had the Brain latched onto him! unless you want to make him having been obliviated of it? I kinda like that idea though Sya as it's never been done before, an original idea...dear God's could it be true? :shock:

 

Re: sooo ...

That's a common thing with forums, going off the topic. It can get much worse, trust me.

BTW You should introduce yourself in the introduction thread....

 

Threads tend to go off topic here, majorly off topic. Just look around and you'll see what I mean.

As for the fic it's all right. It seems a bit rushed more than anything. The scenes strike me as being too short and not detailed enough. I think Harry's progress should be slowed down a bit, he seems to be getting too powerful too fast.

I'll keep checking this fic as it looks like it could be good if you improve on the things mentioned above.

 

oki

I'll try to do that. I had hoped that people would notice Harry's major advantage at being invisible and having the element of surprise. Instead , most figured something like : 'O look, mini-Dumblydorr'. I honestly didn't want to power him up , and I still figure him weak. I'm annyoed however at Rowling's decision to make everyone look like idiots. I mean, I've read a lot of military literature, I've been studying martial arts, etc.
Which means that whenever I see SOLDIERS (Aurors are basically meant to be some sort of soldiers) as pathetic as she describes them in terms of reflex and tactics it greatly annoys me.
Sorry if it seems weird.

 

Re: oki

In mini-Dumbledore, I was thinking more about Harry strugling with transfiguring teacups for 5 years of McGonagall's classes and then in 2 months learning how to conjure live Phoenixes, walls capable of blocking AK and liquid rock.

As for Aurors, I guess they concetrate more on spellwork than other things. Normal soldiers need only to learn how to pull a triger and then they can spend the rest of their training on precision, tactics, unarmed combat etc...

 

Heheh Ron accidentally activated the brains and they took his knowledge unfortunately he is such an idiot that the brain had an allergic reaction of sorts and thought it was under attack and protected itself by attacking Ron with it's tentacles of doom. :lol:

 

Oh lordy. Now I'm picturing Harry signing up for super secret Unspeakable cheat-brain-download training and him trading in his brain and getting Ron's instead.

"Dammit Harry! Why are being such an asshole?"

"Whatever Ron. And call me the Boy-Who-Lived. Do I smell barbecue?"