Eh, I myself am glad he's speeding along. I really want to see the interactions with Fleur.

I find it amusing how easily people can label someone as emo. It has become a major tag within society, to be placed upon people who do not conform to our views of emotional release.

Yeah, he's playing the guitar for his comatose mother.

By the Nine, if there was a way I could connect to a mother or father I never knew, I'd sure as hell leap on it faster than Sirius could leap on a hot chick.

And if you're not sure how fast that is, just remember he's been celibate for 12 years and is itching to feel normal again.

It just takes a different type of person who can appreciate a fanfic like this. Yeah, it's not everyone's cup of tea.

4/5 I give this fic.

 

i personally liked this fiction. the 2 OC's are rather interesting personalitys. At least he has more rounded friends instead of the idiot red head, and the know it all.
As people bash the writer for his adding in of playing the song 'hotel califorina' what is the big deal each author will have there own thing, and that doesn't make him a hippy for playing one song.
Overall i liked the fact that he isn't the boy who lived, granted he is becomign rather super Harry, but it isn't something stupid as he just suddenly become more powerful, it was threw training.
It has its own style and its to the normal style.
4/5

 

I agree. He's been playing it since he was a kid so it's not like the other fics that piss me off with the 'Oh I recently became super powerful so now I'll join a band to release my emo tendencies' Harry. This is good.

And no. Lily is not a hippy because she plays guitar. She is, remember, muggleborn. She must have had some connection with the non-magical world. And guitars were big back then.

It is, as someone said, Harry's pretty much only connection to his fucked up mother. If Neville's allowed to keep his fucking bubble-gum wrappers, Harry can have a guitar, which actual has some use.

 

In the 1st chapter I had a WTF moment when he mentioned an eight-year old playing Hotel California. Now, I play guitar myself and I do not think that an eight-year old can play that piece.

Other than that, the story is mediocre.

A 2/5 from me.

 

I lol'd.

Harry has another connection to his mother - his eyes and the nice lil' gash on his forehead. The bubblegum wrapper is a much more poignant tug at the heartstrings than playing guitar, IMO.

EDIT: @ Memory King: I stand humbly corrected. I s'pose I SHOULD read through this story. Meh.

 

True if you're talking about canon, but not in this story. Neville is the BWL here, which means that Harry's forehead is currently unmarked.

I stand by my previous rating, but I'll admit that I really enjoyed the author's take on CoS. I can't wait for the Triwizard Tourny.

 

I agree, it should be good. The question is, will it be Neville or Harry that gets douched into participating?

 

Author said that Harry would NOT be a Triwizard champion.

 

Ok. Problem solved then.

Does that mean he'll be pulling some strings behind the scene then? I dunno. I feel like guessing the story. But you guys do it better.

Cue discussion...?

 

Lol, why is it that even after half a year and 150K posted words, so many people can still only see this story as an extension of Harry's guitar-playing ability? Especially considering that this famous guitar appears in 3, maybe 4 scenes tops in the entire story, amounting to no more than 1% of global plotline?

Really, ATM this is one of my favourite active stories. In my book, independent!Harry without too much bashing, relatively good OC's, original plot and interesting magic weight infinitely more than some vague resemblance to emo from the first few chapters.

 

I dunno about the OC's. I mean they're written well and all but they irk me a bit. Archades seems like a smarter, calmer Ron. Steph, a bitchy Hermione (to a small extent). Though I do enjoy the antics.

Summed up I like it. But the quidditch thing does put me off a little. I just can't really see that happening. Then again, Krum is young and a prodigy so yeah. What really irks me about it is the fact he played what...4 games tops? Ever? Being selected for the national team after just that is very unbelievable.

But it's still a great story. Excellent pace, good character interaction, somewhat believable strong ass Harry, and good twist on the canon plot.

 

Probably the same reason that many on this forum don't like stories that feature Ginny, even fleetingly, as a love interest for Harry - regardless of the story quality. I'm guilty of the same vice: if I see key things that appear lame, I'll nag and bitch about it without paying attention to the quality of the story.

Just a thought *shrugs*.

 

I've noticed that, and I have been guilty of it as well. We all have our pet peeves, but when you only read a small portion of a story it doesn't serve anyone well to condemn the entire thing.

Sometimes you have to break a few eggs as an author to make an omelet, and if you've kept up with the story, you'll notice that Lily is an afterthought for 95% of this story.

Archades pissed me off royally for a while in this story, but it appears as though the author has turned the corner on him. Steph has been relegated to the background at Beauxbatons, setting up the ineviatble sixth year sideplot.

I'm not a huge fan of the new 'occlumency' disease twist forwarded in the newest chapter, but I won't peeve on it too much until I see what he plans to do with it.

~Matt

 

This is what would increase Harry's power so that he would be capable of combating Voldemort at the time of Deathly Hallows when Dark Lord would be hunting Elder Wand.

Think about it - the power of a mind is arguably wizard's most defining aspect of magical power. Dumbledore, Voldemort - all where prodigies from the start, Dumbledore even wrote articles in the highly learned publications while still learning in Hogwarts.

Harry is in this story is a genius roughly on a Dumbledore's level and with an added advantage of an Elder Wand he is probably more powerful that Dumbledore was in his age. However he is still an "ordinary" genius, so it will not be enough to face Voldemort, who spent decades training his magic. (Or the serious threats after Voldemort)

So, seeing as author is not a fan of "huge magical core" approach, (increasing which is boring by the way) but more of a "Taurean" approach to magic to give him power equal to Voldemort he will need to give him a "Super-brain", so to speak, which that obscure, dangerous and highly risky Mind Ritual, forced to execution by the Occlumency desease would do - he would either die or emerge stronger as he has no other options.

Just my theory.

 

Yes, he also has the epic journey across the world to gather all of his supplies also for his mother's miracle cure, how many journeys literally and figuratively is he going to take? It seems a tad bit repetitive in this case, and its not in a good way.

~Matt

 

Hrm...betcha Neville goes to Harry asking for help.

Fleur will be the interesting aspect.

Also amusing is how Harry will act. Will he dismiss Fleur as just another stupid girl, will he tolerate her due to being Stephanie's friend?

And how will Krum and Harry act towards each other?

And I agree with the whole super-brain idea.

I dislike Harry's who have a huge magical core. Why can't he just be a cunning SoB that can work his magic in different ways?

I betcha Helga Hufflepuff's cup is actually the Chalice. That would piss Harry off.

Essentially Palver, you are in a way talking about evolution. Survival of the fittest. Adapt or perish.

I wonder what Neville does with the bubblegum wrappers?

And giving him the connection to Ravenclaw was a good move IMO. Both of them did astounding things with magic. But Harry is forced by necessity to do what Ravenclaw couldn't...heal himself of the terminal disease.

 

uh oh. I just read the latest chapter. Possible Harry-Archie-Cedric boy band foreshadowing? I don't mind this story, but that would be the nail in the coffin.

 

^^ Agree.

I wasn't a fan of that chapter, and severely hurt the story in my eyes. Hopefully it was just a blip, and not repeated.

 

Ugh, The commentators annoyed me to no end.

And the fact that Harry can do some super awesome bike skid when he first starts using it and Sirius can't.

I'm with most of these people ^^

Lets hope it picks up again

 

That chapter was definaitly not the best one he's ever put out. I agree with everything Ragin' Cajun said.

Was anyone else really annoyed when Archie got the Mithril blade? Or Archie having a home based business selling potions?