Only my sarcasm is canon, nothing more (did you forget, what parantheses even do?)

 

They do... MAGIC!!

 

It starts promising but quickly turns disappointing. Though it has some interesting ideas and a nice whimsical approach, it soon becomes too detached from HP canon and goes into the realms of lunacy (and not of the nice Luna type). I was really let down when after suffering from a lot this fic can dish out I found out that

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Voldemort became evil because he lost his his soul-bond partner, the so called "bad vibrations" caused him to go insane

I would rate it a solid 2/5 and nothing much more than that.

 

Just as I feared. I was hoping that

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Voldemort tried to break or use a different couple's soul bond in such a way that it backfired, causing the 'bad vibrations.' Giving Tom Riddle a broken soul bond just seems uninventive.

 

The story was missing key scenes, leaving primary points of conflict (Harry vs. family, Harry vs. his own feelings of disappointment with same, family vs. Daphne, etc.) unresolved. This is why the takeaway from the novella-length one-shot is a sense of incompleteness.

 

One of the best series out there is H/G. It was written 9 years ago now, but it's still really great. The fact that it made it to the library at all during a time of massive ginny-hate should speak volumes. https://forums.darklordpotter.net/showthread.php?t=9478 . Some people have an irrevocable hatred of anything involving her, but this story is truly one of a kind and if you can get past your preconceived notions and disengage the tunnel-vison, then you'd probably be able to enjoy it. I feel like if the story was freshly posted, it would garner a lot better ratings than it did back then, but what's done is done.

 

Pers pretty much hits the nail on the head here. Negligentia isn't a bad fic, really. It just ends too abruptly. It feels like it's building toward some sort of climax that never comes. The writing is technically fine, and what's there is good. It just doesn't finish what it started. As it stands, I think this thread is the appropriate place for it.

 

Colin is a fanboy, and Ginny would've acted the same way had the circumstances been different. However the first time Ginny meets Harry is at Kings Cross prior to his first year at Hogwarts. Ginny was with her brothers and mother at the time so it's likely she showed some restraint when she first met him. Then prior to her first year Harry spent the better part of the summer living at their house. During this time she gets used to his presence and vents by telling a Horcrux how much she loved Harry Potter and she spills so much said Horcrux starts to possess her and she tries to kill muggleborns. Chamber of Secrets is basically a book about how Ginny's obsession with Harry nearly led to the resurrection of Voldemort (and yet he marries this psycho and names one of his kids after Snape).

Seriously if Ginny hadn't acted like a fangirl Harry's second year would've been dedicated to Quidditch and his developing crush on Katie Bell.

The Creevey's, on the other hand stalked Harry but had a background role, at best, in the series. Ginny had a lot of time to get used to Harry's presence and still acted like a fangirl.

Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum
By: lucky14now
After the fall of Voldemort members of the Black family reunite to protect their children and charges. Together they will restore the Ancient and Noble House of Black while preparing for the return of a foe. Clarification: Harry and Draco have been aged to Viktor's age.
Rated: Fiction M - English - Adventure/Family - [Harry P., Fleur D.] Draco M., Viktor K. - Chapters: 10 - Words: 118,040 - Reviews: 435 - Favs: 1,193 - Follows: 1,692 - Updated: Oct 12 - Published: Dec 19, 2013 - id: 9939304

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9939304/1/Si-Vis-Pacem-Para-Bellum

It's an okay time waster. Basically it's a lot of cliches thrown together. I'm throwing it here because while the writing is average and there are a ton of cliches, it does take place at Durmstrang, and personally I'll read just about any story that takes place at a school other than Hogwarts.

 

Any HG story added to the library in the years 2005-2010 should automatically a +1 in rating considering the massive amount of Ginny hate that existed back then.

As for the Death Gate series, could I get a few extra opinions? There seem to be very few replies in the thread other than "Oh No, it's Ginny!" and I need a few recommendations before starting a trilogy containing over a million words.

 

Fair enough... it would be retarded if we randomly increased the ratings of stories. I meant that I automatically add +1 in my head to the rating of any HG fanfic that made it to the library in 2005-2010. Considering the number of "Ginny=Auto-fail!" voters that must have existed back then, I don't think it is unreasonable to do so.

As for the Death Gate trilogy, it is a million words. I am reluctant to start reading such an old fic (As a rule, I don't touch anything written before 2007 unless highly recc'd) without a couple of present-day recommendations. How does it hold up now?

Sounds similar to the Thorny Rose series by the same author. Slytherin Ginny sounds interesting. I might just give it a read.

 

The only reason I didn't suggest that here was because of my little bitch over in Pet Peeves a few weeks back. I hate that the author turned every male in Slytherin (except Harry of course) into a rapist.

 

Ah, thank you. I almost started reading the story. You think Sesc would have mentioned that little detail.

 

The story is funny in a dark way and I enjoy reading it if I don't think about all the rapists who somehow all get away with it despite how open they are about it.

 

I'm going for LOL/5, mostly because of that scene with Harry and Ginny in the forest.

 

And yes, making Slytherin into some kinda Hogwartian "Gor" blows, too.

 

I have read it recently, so that's sort of why I'm re-reccing it. The first time I read it was about 6 years ago, and it's just as engaging now as it was then, and if anyone knows me at all, I rarely recommend anything, and am pretty open about stories that I think are shit. It's hardly the normal ffn drabble and canon rehashes that endlessly plague us. It's a genuinely interesting and well written adventure/mystery, and since it is a million words, you know it's not going to be a rush job.

 

Ugh, no.
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