Subject: Once is Happenstance by Autilia

Title: Once is Happenstance
Author: Aurilia
Rating: M
Genre: Humor/Mystery
DLP Category: General
Pairing: None
Status: Complete
Summary: Harry Potter xover. Harry joins Sam and Dean on a hunt. Rated M for language. Not slash.
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3856593/1/Once_is_Happenstance<O></O>
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</OA nice, easy read and a good crossover matchup with Supernatural. Harry has defeated Voldemort and fled England with a bounty on his head due to the fuckwits at the Ministry of Magic. He finds himself in the U.S. and working as a Hunter, where he runs into the Winchester brothers.

This story does a good job of capturing a competent and cynical Harry and the humor of the Supernatural series. It also has one sequel that is complete and another that is about halfway done. Writing is pretty solid, especially in the sequel, Twice is Coincidence.

If you like Supernatural and Indie!Harry, give this a shot.

4/5

 

Where abouts in supernatural is it?

 

It begins shortly after Sam and Dean open the gateway to Hell, I think. No Angels at all in these fics, just Demons, spirits and other wee beasties.

 

Sweet, I asked as I haven't seen the last half of S5 yet. Will def check this out.

 

I saw this when it first came out. It had one of those classic crossover pitfalls where the protagonists share their entire life histories five minutes after meeting each other; because while in their own canon verses they are not blonds infected with diarrhea of the mouth, in a new verse within seconds they contract this malaise and become BFFs. In this case it's Harry and Dean.

Harry smokes, he's really bad ass.

Somehow I got past the 'get to know each other with all the subtlety of a sledge hammer' part and ran right into Potter wank. Sure we all think he's had a rough life but the Winchesters might just have enough sob stories to match the one with the power of wuv. It's not like their mother was pasted to a ceiling and then incinerated from the inside out. Moving on.

Harry can affect a southern accent, he's really bad ass.

We see a little bit of that angst which smells of 2005; yes, it's the I'm so famous it hurts angst. But it's not too over the top, it's just to make a point about people lauding him about Lily sacrificing her life to save him. It's really quite forgivable. And moving on.

Harry makes random bored women wet themselves and stutter, he's really bad ass.

I can't say much about the plot yet. It seems like a 'monster of the week' type deal. Which is a good choice because it sort of eases you into the melding of the verses. I haven't finished the story yet, so we shall see.

Harry thinks he's better than Dean at hand-to-hand combat, he's really bad ass.

3/5


Edit: Story number 2 is actually fairly decent. Snape shows up, I liked how he was written. There are some plain weak points in the story that are hard to get beyond because they are major fanfiction cliche's. But there's enough original and creative that it's actually an interesting read. I'd say story 2 deserves a place in the library.

 

This. By wordcount and quality, the second story is the real story here. The first is merely prologue.

EDIT: Aekiel, what buttons you talking about?

 

I quit reading #2 when it got to the Leanne/Snape confrontation. I don't have meay real pet peeves but that pushed all the wrong buttons to the point where I just clicked the red X in disgust.

 

I had to abandon Once is Happenstance when Harry and Dean sat down to talk life. I mean seriously, one guy breaks into another guy's MOTEL room, a couple of flashy lights, a cigarette and a comment about both being hunters, and Harry suddenly opens up like a two-cent whore in the red district. Give 'em two days and they'll be comparing their cock's sizes.


2/5 because at least it was relatively well-written. Although the sentence structuring is pretty much the same: "Grinning, Harry bent over. Shaking his head, Dean leaned back. Lighting a cigarette, Harry smiled." It gets kinda boring.

 

Read this series once back in 2007-2008. Beta'd a bit for the author on the second part of this series. Have no interest in coming back to it now.

I like her zombie story better, IMO, but she falls into some of the same traps as in this one. You don't need to share your life's story with everyone you meet - no need for your characters to do the same.

3/5

 

It was...decent. Not remarkable or very memorable other than being an x-over I've never read before. 3.5/5