Title: Not Quite
Author: Dogbertcarroll
Rating: M
Genre: Humor/Adventure
DLP Category: Humor/Parody
Pairing: HP/HG ?
Status: Work in Progress
Summary: HP Discworld crossover. Harry Potter has come to Hogwarts, but he's not quite what anyone was expecting, but what can you expect from a boy raised on the Disc?
Link:http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3937066/1/Not_Quite

This must be one of the only attempts at HP Discworld crossover i have ever come across, It's only one chapter so far but i think that the author has managed to get Terry Pratchett's form of humor exactly right which i think is a hard thing to do. Hopefully he will keep getting it right and if he dose this could turn into a real gem.

5/5

 

The fact that this fic will likely be Ron/Ginny makes me giggle. The fact that Harry gave Ron an inspirational little talk about how powerful he could tell Ron was made me sad.

I shall follow it for now.

 

my complaint was the "Ron's so powerful" but... though Harry could have just been padding his ego.

 

I don't care if the rest of the story fails. This single piece FTW.

 

The footnotes being in between the paragraphs fucking hurt my eyes. But that and the "Oh, Ron! You're so powerful!" thing are the only things I've particularly disliked so far.

 

On a related note, did you guys hear about Pratchett? He's been diagnosed with schizophrenia. No more Discworld I guess.

The story is okay, a bit too much description at first and far too many footnotes, but it gets better as it goes along.

3/5, with the possibility of moving up to 4/5 in future chapters.

 

I heard about that Taure its a rare form of Alzheimer's, Luckily for him it is treatable with drugs so there will be more books. He is going to have to write more to pay for them because the drugs cost about £1000 per week

 

Where did you here that, Headbanger?

There is currently no cure for Alzheimer's disease. Currently available medications offer relatively small symptomatic benefit for some patients but do not slow disease progression. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alzheimer's_disease#Treatment

There are a number of other Alzheimer medications in development. There is certainly no medication whose results are so definite that you can say "it is treatable with drugs so there will be more books."

Link to where you read about these meds.

Yak.

 

Yak, Headbanger was talking about Schizophrenia. Yes, it's treatable - not curable, treatable - but for fuck's sake, it is not a rare form of Alzheimer's. Schizophrenia is a horrible disease that some unlucky people get young in life. Some common symptoms of Schizophrenia include, but are not limited to Hallucinations, hearing voices, and "Word Salad.*"

Schizophrenia is generally a hell of a lot worse of a disease than Alzheimer's.

*Word Salad is, essentially, a condition where the schizophrenic basically mumbles incoherently to himself about the most random shit ever.

 

My mother told me that it was Alzheimer's he had a few days ago, She said that the Alzheimer's was in the very early stages and was treatable only because they had caught it early enough. As for the £1000 drugs thats what she said that Pratchett's doctor was most likely to give him. As for how my mother knows this there are two reasons -

1. She runs a care home for old folks with Alzheimer's so its part of her job to know these things.
2. My grandfather died from Alzheimer's a few years ago so she has a vested interest in keeping up with treatment developments in case my dad goes down with it.

I will have to get back to you with what the drugs name is because I cannot remember what it was called I only remember that it was bloody expensive.

Anyway what did you think of the story?

 

Terry Pratchett has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Not Schizophrenia.

http://www.paulkidby.com/news/index.html
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/14/0113224
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/13/terry_prachett_alzheimers/
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/12/terry-pratchett-has.html

Yak.

 

Oh...see, I read Headbanger's post immediately after Taure's, so I'd automatically come to the assumption that Headbanger was calling Schizophrenia a rare form of Alzheimer's, which obviously isn't the case.

*Shrug* I've been wrong before.

 

The position of the footnotes is annoying, but otherwise I've no major gripes with it. It seems interesting so far but it's not really grabbing me. I'd give it a 3/5 for now. I'll have to see how it fairs. Looking at the author's page shows me that he/she doesn't really have a good record for completing stories, so I'm not really sure if this story will continue.

 

Eh, yeah. The Ron/Ginny moment was awesome, but the rest is rather so-so at the moment.
I'll keep up with it, maybe it'll get interesting.

 

Ron/Ginny.... ROFL!!!!! Gods that made my day.

Overall very good and funny.

4/5

 

not extraordinary, but not that bad. AtM a 3ish, but I'll withhold my vote till the author can establish a bit better.

 

Please note, Terry Pratchett does not have Alzheimer's or Schizophrenia. He recently discovered that he'd had a slight stroak two or three years ago. This has affect his ability to type coherently, makes him prone to tire, and likely to have trouble recalling things witht the same spead he once could. He says that this should not affect his novel production so much as his book signings and other such touring events, which shall be reduced in number and length.

 

Unfortunately, you're just slightly wrong on that account. He does have a form of early onset Alzheimer's, and has stated as much on the website of Paul Kidby (the artist who does the random sketches).

http://www.paulkidby.com/news/index.html

As for the fic, he's trying to copy Pratchett's style to the letter, which isn't working too well in my opinion. Could be worse though, and I'm gonna keep an eye on it for now.

Aekiel

 

So this story is an entire chapter, and abandoned.

This story was a bit odd because I'm not so use to the writing style.

This is really the only thing that made me laugh. I would have to say judging based on what's there, the fic is a 3/5. Average, not good, not horrible, but not even much to judge on. However, considering it's abandoned, I'd have to give it a 2/5. Not Library Worthy at all.