Very good so far, though i am wondering at your remarks about the hrmione being an insufferable know it all- she morethan once triedto put the spotlight towards harry and so on.

I am quite glad AD gave his books to hermione, and money to ron. Ron needs it in order to help harry not to suffocate into despair, and hermione needs it in order to help harry cast spells.

ps: Hemrione is one or two years in advancein every subkect, hence she doesn't specialised, like james, or snape, do. No, i believe that hermione has the potential to be much more than booksmart, though this potential is rrely exploited in good fics, sadly.

 

Look, what is with you constantly trying to show Hermione as the bestest ever. She is, and forever will be, a insufferable little know-it-all. She panicks too much, is never cool under pressure, and rubis into everyones face how better she is.

WHy would Hermione need the book to help HArry? You could give the books to Harry so he can learn himself.

She isn't advanced. Name one time it shows her as advanced in Canon. She only seems advanced and smart, as everyone else is stupid as fuck.

 

I think the Protean charm that she did on the coins was 7th year material. So knowledge-wise she seems more advanced than others of her year. But I agree with your point about her panicking in a fight and being a know-it-all. I also find it annoying when she keeps secrets herself (e.g. timeturner) but has to know everything about everybody else. Not to mention her "I know what's good for you" attitude (e.g. the Firebolt fight).

 

Harry did the Patronus charm in his third year, most adults can't do that. So what if she did a dumb charm that allows you to change time on a coin, that sure is going to allow you to destroy Voldemort.

 

Man, I can't believe I'm defending her. Anyway, let me say up front that I believe she is annoying little know-it-all, good for research, mostly bad in a fight. However, she's not completely worthless. Two scenes come to mind: her use of Alohomora on Fluffy's door when Filch was after them and her dealing with Devil's Snare in the first task. Even though these particular events don't demonstrate any advanced knowledge or fighting prowess, she did manage to get the trio out of a sticky situation.

As for Harry, he is powerful and can do much when he puts his mind to it (e.g. accioing the broom in GoF, or the Patronus like you mentioned). But I thought we were talking about Hermione.

Anyway, I guess my point is that Hermione wins hands down when it comes to knowledge (at her level or above) though Harry wins when it comes to power. I'll shut up now since we are straying off topic...

 

One more thing, than I promise that I will not post any more off-topic post in this topic. Sorry, Ron.

We are talking about Hermione, I used Harry as a comparison to her using the Protean charm.

The Alohomora scene was good, instantly ruined by yelling at Ron and Harry when she followed on her own will, and saying it's worse to get expelled than die. As for the Devil's Snare...she panicked a lot.

She wanted to use fire to kill it...but she says theres no wood. She is a fucking witch, use your wand. If that happened in a fight, where there is a lot more pressure, she isn't going to have a friend there to say use your wand.

 

That's fine. It's relevant. And Ron? What kind of personal slight is that intended to be?!

I don't think that I ever do show Hermione as 'best of the best'. I think that might be the interpretation you're pulling out of thin air. My Hermione, though definately having an aspect of know-it-allism, has several significant problems that definately keep her from being deemed omnipotent. For starters - yes, Hermione does seem to be a better witch than Harry. Is she more powerful? No, but she does have a much greater spell repertoire and she does practice much harder than he does.

Why did I have Dumbledore give the books to Hermione? This is actually really easy to explain, and I'm surprised you questioned it. As Dumbledore will explain in the next chapter, Harry won't or wouldn't read them all. I'm trying to avoid out-of-characterness, and even though Harry now has impetus to read like mad, he still does not have the personality nor the patience to read them all. Hermione, however, reads like mad. Though she doesn't ncessarily have the sheer power that Harry does (and though it's not entirely canon, or at least it is debated canon, he does have a mass of sheer power under his veil of ignorance), if she has one thing going for her, it is that she is generally seen as studious. Dumbledore, who has watched Harry almost to a point of fascination knows that Hermione is this way and knows that it is in Harry's best interest not to leave them to Harry but to leave them to Hermione so that Harry will actually learn SOME of the content.

A similar sort of theme presents itself with Ron. Harry has a boatload of money - enough to keep him well-off for most of school and established in life. Furthermore, Harry is unappreciative of the gold he makes as it is all death-gold; that is, he has inherited it because people close to him have died. Ron, who has never had gold, has it given to him because Harry would just let it sit in his bank rather than acknowledge it. Ronald, however, will be free in the spending of it, as it's a luxury he's not have and now has it bursting the seams of his bank account. It's a result of Harry's avoidance tendancies that Dumbledore deliberately willed the two the things that Harry would not use so that in the end he winds up using them.

 

If you could update they would probably find something else to argue about. but ohwell


Not bad, not the best, but not bad. I kinda like it. Its better than 90% of the junk of FF.net

 

Oh my gosh. Why the hell did I hit the N and not the B? Sorry about that Rob. I guess I can understand that you are having Harry use all the items without him actually directly using them. Do you know when you are going to update? I need something to read.

 

I'd say probably within a week, by the grace of god. This next chapter is a very critical one - most of the initial mystery things sort of settle and also present themselves for the first time. It's long (about 15k words was my estimate) but my computer decided to truncate the file to 0 bytes when I reached the 7k word mark last time. For obvious reasons, the going has been slow. However, I'll do my best to work on it and get it up.

 

This fic has since been updated. Apologies for the lateness; it was seven thousand words beyond my estimate.

 

The update is pretty good. I think it is about time Harry put his foot down and told Hermione to shut the hell up, though. She called him stupid like three times. That's three more than I'd put up with.

 

Thanks for the bump...I was going crazy for a bit there trying to figure out where this fic went...I still had it by its old name, Harry Potter and the Alchemist's Cell which was really throwing me off. I suppose I should also mention that its been edited so anyone wanting to read this should probably re-read and catch up to where ever they left off.

--bornagainpenguin

 

The Solstice of Fate by Le Rob

Title: The Solstice of Fate
Author: Le Rob
Genre: Adventure/Mystery
Pairing: Author profile says it's Harry/Daphne
Rating: T
Summary: ..."Harry Potter," hissed the voice so close to his ear. "Did you really think that you had enough skill to track down my Horcruxes by yourself?" The snake-faced man regarded him coolly. "Fool! You found them only because I wanted you to find them!"

Link: Link

Good writing style and sufficient quality, with early signs of a plot. The first few chapters are slow, but they start to heat up in the third. Then, in the fourth, things are blown wide open. This is a very promising fic, and I really can't find much fault with it. It's definitely Library quality.

Notes: The Summary leads me to believe that Voldemort will be a good villain. There is a version of the story in the author's profile that has 9 chapters--apparently, this story is being rewritten and this is the 4th chapter of the update. Hopefully this means that it will update rapidly until it's over 100K words again. And finally, the story has a Daphne Greengrass pairing (not a Blaise Zabini pairing) in the future, although she hasn't been seen thus far.

I really want to give it a 5/5 but I'll hold my numbers back for now. Great, though.

 

meh, didn't like it much.. 3/5

 

I remember beginning the original version of this a while back, but can't remember the portrait of Dumbledore being so abrupt that time. I think that adds a distinct flavor to the story, and that's always good.

But yeah, let's hope the update rate gets a little better and then stays constant. If that happens, this could become one of the better 'new' fics out there. I'll wait to rate, but it looks promising.

 

Mean Dumbledore is mean. 0.o

I'm not actually minding the story. Its both very good and very painful at moments. But its standable.

Tentative 4/5 if this goes places.

Edit:, yeah, just finished chapter four. I'll keep the rating at a more solid 4/5. Just for the mean Dumbledore, and the focus on power of the mind, a definite guilty pleasure for me.

 

I know I mentioned this already, but if you guys want, you can go to his author's profile and see up to Chapter 9 from the unrevised edition. I'm reading it, and beginning Chapter 8. It's a very good story, and the few qualms I have about it are not enough to stop me from reading it quickly. I'm pretty stoked to be reading it, honestly.

 

It's OK imo 3/5 for now, in chapter 2(I think?) he was about to cry over Ginny and that made me hurl but it's OK... Not bad but not great.

I'll rate it again later, once it's has a few more chapters.