I do believe this just updated.

Anyone remember what it was about?

 

I believe it was about a 40 year old Harry scheming away to have sex with eleven year old children.

He killed himself with an AK, and using special diamonds and potions, managed to integrate himself into his eleven year old body, whereupon he quickly began groping ten year old Ginny Weasley.

If I missed anything, someone let me know.

 

He also trains them for "combat" with a focus on physical conditioning. Also I read integrate as impregnate... I think I need sleep.

 

I do believe my subtle dig at the massive time between updates was too subtle.

Oh the hypocrisy!

 

Some rhetorical questions are meant to be answered. Also, what hypocrisy?

 

Amer summarized it pretty well, sadly. To think S'tarken wrote this, guh, it makes me sick. It's a total let down compared to Team 7 and Out from the Darkness: A Jin... Tale.

Though when it first came out it was one of the few fics worth reading, in the Time Travel genre so the old crowd is still hung up on it. His update rates might be bad, well, downright horrible, but his writing is pretty good. If you can ignore the Harry/Ginny it's not really that bad of a read. It's just that it's nothing we, as in most members of DLP, haven't already read before.

 

To be fair, he practically invented fanon Ginny. (He and Melindaleo, anyway).

 

It took him 422 days to write a chapter full of fucking filler. He's never going to finish it.

By the way, it's astonishing how evil and scheming 12-year-olds in this story are.

 

I had just wondered how long it had been since the last update.

 

Bah, 'twas a damn disappointment to say the least, although at this point I can't say I was expecting much. All filler with something about the IRA planning to invade Hogwarts tacked on at the end of the chapter that made me wonder what the fuck was going on (and not in the "I want to read more" way either) since Muggles supposedly can't find the place. If the update time wasn't bad enough, this update certainly made the whole thing a great deal worse. There are better things to read out there, this story has not aged well. And yeah it's gotten a little (a lot) creepy.

 

Perhaps it's because NoFP was the story that got me into fan-fiction in the first place, and thus tend to be kinder to it, but I do think Viridian did a good job on the latest chapter. Granted, the few before this one were rather boring, with little in the way of developments, but consider:

1. We learn that Snape is now Headmaster of Durmstrang. That's fairly significant, considering that in the original timeline Durmstrang was a Death-Eater academy.

2. Harry has begun to make an ally of Scrimgeour. This is significant, considering that if Fudge gets booted, Harry may have Ministry support.

3. The other third-year Slytherins are shown to be very, very vicious. Threats of rape against Millicent? To me, at least, this suggests there might be another time-traveler within Slytherin House, who's trying to excise dissenters (Millicent), and pretty much doing the same thing Harry is. My guess would be Malfoy, since Harry, in the original timeline, couldn't account for Draco's ultimate end.

4. The IRA thing. Hmmm. I don't know, I guess it's kinda neat, but it seems like opening a can of worms. I mean, it seems like 'Sean' intended to firebomb the castle, since the supposed British lab is beneath it. Surely he wouldn't proceed if he found children? And yes, I have no idea how a muggle would find it.

Granted, I didn't like the Harry/Ginny interactions. He's put her high up on this pedestal, which seems undeserved, and detracting from the interesting plot ideas. And the update rate really sucks.

 

A lot of NofP's fame stems from the fact that it was one of the first decent attempts at this sort of epic genre. Taking a closer look, though, I see flaws. Harry's interactions with the other members of the 'Golden Sextet' are awkward when compared to some other stories in the genre, like Deadwoodpecker's Backward With Purpose series. Even more importantly, there's few indications that the story will manage to do anything truly creative. It isn't that the story itself fell into this state, but rather that the fanfic world has "moved on," leaving the story behind as a sort of living fossil.

Sure, I know all this intellectually. And yet I am very pleased to see this update; I want the story to finish. I still appreciate S'TarKan's writing, and I haven't totally abandoned hope that the story might surprise me in a good way. The IRA thing introduced in the last chapter wasn't really the creative angle I was hoping for, but it's a potential sign of life regardless.

And now there are new questions to be asked about the future of this piece: Will it be influenced by the trends of newer-era HP fanfiction? Does the author intend to continue the same pace, in terms of the number of words/chapters per school year? If a NofP leaves the Chicago station in 2005, moving at 35 mph, will it arrive in Topeka before we all die of old age? etc.

 

No.
Yes/
We'll all be dead by a long shot.

There ya go, answered .

 

The answer to the first question would depend on how much fanfiction S'TarKan even reads anymore. My understanding is that over the last two years, he has written two or three original fiction novels, which, together with work pressures, account for some of the slowness of his fanfiction story updates. (I'm in the same boat myself to some degree, as is jbern). If you want to be a successful writer, you tend to read a lot of the kind of story you wish to write. If Matthew's priority is original fiction, then that's probably what he's reading and what will influence his writing.

I suspect updates will stay at this pace unless something in his life changes substantially.

 

I can see an IRA attack as a Marco Polo Bridge incident, a way for Voldemort's supporters to point to the dangers of muggles, and strike back against the recent negative publicity.

But after so long, I was expecting a bit more.

 

This gives me hope that maybe Jono might update.

On topic: I couldnt bring myself to read the update. I forgot most of what happened and do not want to slog through 300k+ words just to get caught up.

 

Updated. Chapter 39, The Battle of Hogwarts.

I have an unhealthy bias for this story, being the first fan-fiction I ever enjoyed, but this chapter...I mean...THIS took almost three years to write? How profoundly disappointing it is, especially after the promise of mayhem that last chapter ended on.