^ That's an epic post right there. I have never actually noticed that the Weasley's used religious phrases like that. And the picture you posted was awesome.

Literary Pet Peeve #7854 (or Pet Literary Peeve?)

The terrible accents that people write in most Tournament re-dos.

For example

"Oh zhat iz zo true!" Fleur said

"Vhat? Oh, I veel vrite this down." Victor said

EDIT: Although, ^ these examples aren't that different from canon.

Pisses me off to no end. If you can't do it right don't bother doing it at all.

Moridin-
I'm surprised you haven't. Maybe you just read less shitty fics than I do.

They're in a lot of Slytherin!Harry fics. They're in Lightning on the Wave's series a lot. Mind you I never got passed the fifth book of that one. It got boring in the sixth one.

 

Ditto on the terrible accents, though I understand that accents are somewhat hard to write. They used to drive me up a wall particularly in fics where Harry grows up on the 'mean streets of london' and he ends up with a part Manchester, part Liverpool, part Hagrid accent.

As for colour, I don't mind Cerulean so much but I find Crimson and Emerald to be overused. Though the latter's (thankfully) rapidly losing popularity.

Hate repetitive and often out of place 'smirks'. 'Inner Slytherin' or getting in touch with your 'Slytherin side' makes me cringe.
Don't really mind 'Avada Kedavra eyes' too much. 'Golden trio', 'Ice Queen', 'Moldyshorts' (and its variations) and when the Dursleys use the word 'freak' to the point that it makes up 90% of their dialogue make me want to die.

 

It's unavoidable in HP ficdom.. but I especially hate the word "Metamophagus".
Especially if my brain says it in Tonk's supposed cockney accent.

 

How do you spell metamorphmagus? Did I get it right just then?

I don't think the word itself counts as over-used maybe just the actual talent is over-used. Too many metamorphmagi, too few sexual fiends to take advantage.

"Old coot" and "doddering" in reference to Dumbledore. There are other ways to insult the elderly, people.

 

...like voting for the Tories.

 

I don't mind the use of metamorphmagi (?), but Harry being a metamorphmagus because he once regrew his hair in a burst of accidental magic annoys me. I can see where they're coming from, but it usually seems to turn into Harry making his hair oh so awesome and sexy, rather than actually being useful.

 

Ron Weasley and how Chess made him smart in battle situations.
It makes me puke.

 

Fix'd for you.

 

Agreed, though that's neither a metaphor, simile, or an interesting word.

Some of this stuff is more appropriate as fodder for the HP fanfic pet peeves threads that pop up regularly.

 

Theres a story on here where Harry grew up more pampered than a Malfoy, to the extent that he didn't even know how to dress himself. The author used the phrase 'young dandy' to describe Harry probably about 500 times in the whole story.

Someone mentioned something similar to this, but I find it extremely annoying when Harry is dating a girl and it seems like every other female character who disapproves of the relationship (most prominently Ginny and Molly, and sometimes Hermione) constantly call Harry's girlfriends a slut, whore, slag, a scarlet woman... etc despite the fact that in most cases the girl in question is no more than 15 years old with her maidenhood intact. I guess it is just annoying to read it after the first 50 times.

Oh, and 'Umbitch.' I need not mention pet names for characters, marauderesque animagus names for every character, or fail joke names for Voldemort and his Death Eaters. It's fine when the story is a parody... but when the story is trying to be serious (fuck you for thinking it, Sirius/serious) it just ruins the mood I feel.

 

Am I the only one getting sick of Dumbledore's twinkling/sparkling eyes? I mean, I know it's canon, but it's seriously overused. So much so that it's practically his only reaction anymore. I especially despise it in relation with legillimency (did I spell that write?) in Manipulative!Dumbledore fics. No where in canon does it speak of physical manifestations of any sort on the caster. And while we're on the topic of nicknames, 'Weasel' and 'Ferret' aren't funny. Or clever. At all.

 

Is this what you're looking for? By our very own LT2000

 

I'm sick of Draco's face being described as "pointy".

I know it's canon but if you are gonna steal a character from a published author the least you could do is put your own little flourish to it. I guess I just hate it when people try to basically re-write HP almost exactly as it was published.

 

I can't stand the way Dumbledore is always described as a senile old coot.

Coot.

Not a good word. Do not want. Sounds like a bad name for a pet owl in Harry/PG-13 relationship fluff-fic. Very few of the senile old people I've met sound like birdies. My grandmother made a similar sound once, but I'm fairly sure she was cooing over a baby.

Dumbledore =/= grandma Otters.

 

The name is Potter-black, I am Lord Griffindor-Potter-Black-Ladi-Dadi-FuckingDa.

Just choose 1 name and go with it pls, instead of half a dozen hyphenates.

Same goes for Mrs Ginny Potter nee Weasly, Hermione Potter nee Granger.
nee nee nee nee.

 

Seems this is turning into another pet peeves thread.

 

"felt like he had been run over by the Hogwarts Express"...

 

^ "... by a herd of hippogriffs" also.

Cerulean eyes... really. That much detail is unnecessary. Anyway, eye color "changes" with the lighting, so, for example, green eyes can sometimes look blue or even gray. If you use cerulean, it means that in the next scene, couple of hours later, for the sake of consistency you're gonna have to pick another obscure shade of the color blue.

Dumbledore's eyes are periwinkle, but only in candlelight.

 

I once read an X-Files novel where a teenager hypnotised people into killing themselves and each other by monologuing on the subject of the colour cerulean.

Seriously.

 

Sauce?

10 characters.