Time-travel fics in general. Either they're used as fix-it fics or in the extremely rare case... making things worse. Neither appeal to me. Not to mention there are so many of them!

 

Blasphemy. Time travel fics are the best.

 

Dude wat.

Fixing or making things worse is the point. Why write time-travel if nothing changes? Unless it's like a "can't fight fate" hook, I suppose.

 

I can agree that it's annoying when people use time travel to fix everything. I mean this when nothing goes wrong for Harry or whoever is doing the traveling.
If a time travel is done right then events change do to the obvious fix thereby making a whole new set of problems. Who would want to read a fic where everything goes right with no problems? You could write that in less than a hundred words.

 

Its my peeve. I can't stand them. Unless its an AU time travel like Menace's story or something like Delenda est where I know it's not gonna be another interpretation of canon events.
I know I am in the minority here. It's a matter of principle for me I guess. We all wish we could go back in time to fix things, but there are so few fics which actually portray rising from a tragedy, not by travelling back in time but actually making the best of it in the present.
I am sorta saturated by them. But if there was a good fic where the MC travels to the future. That would be something I can get behind.

 

I agree about time travel. The problem is that it gives such a huge advantage to the protagonist, that in order to create any sort of conflict you have to cross the line of suspension of disbelief. That is, either the protagonist holds the idiot ball and makes all the wrong decisions, or he's simply extremely unlucky and has all kinds of implausible things happen to him. Delenda Est is the only time-travel fic that I actually enjoyed, and I generally see no reason why such a fic would even be interesting beyond answering the timeless question of "If they have a time turner why don't they just go back and kill Voldemort when he was a baby?"

 

It would actually be fairly easy for someone to fuck up while using time travel. The problem with travelling back in time to fix something is that you'll inevitably not know what will happen because you've distorted events simply by your very presence, even if you haven't directly acted against Voldemort etc.
Lets say Harry travels back and prevents Voldemort from getting resurrected in the graveyard. This point of divergence would make it almost impossible for Harry to predict what Voldemort is going to do next and while he can destroy some of the Horcruxes, he'll not be able to get Nagini. Thus, Voldemort is still a credible antagonist that actually presents a threat to Harry and provides conflict/tension.

 

Or, what is more typical, make situation before time-travel really bad, worse than what happened in canon.

 

its a fic, sorry should have been more clear

 

Students are the literal living embodiments of their house values. Ugh. House values seem to be extremely negligible in canon, or function differently than how they're superficially presented.

And while we're at it, all Slytherins learn to mask their faces and feelings in utter apathy by age 11.

 

Don't forget the fact that all the slytherin students know the last hundred years of history of all the pure blood families.

 

And are politicking better than Bismarck before even starting to have to shave or menstruate.

 

Two (three if you're pedantic) words: Crabbe and Goyle.

 

Can't you see? It's all an act. They've managed to fool everyone, students and teachers -including themselves-, in believing they were dumb as bricks.

They're the truest slytherins of them all.
Actually no, the real slytherins are in Hufflepuff.

 

I've always held that opinion.

 

Actually if being real Slytherin means actually being just like the original Salazar Slytherin, they should be in the house of Slytherin. Isn't that's how Sorting Hat was designed to work?
This leads to my pet peeve: a Harry so smart at the beginning of the fanfic that he can fool a thousand year old magical artefact made by a genius, but who stumbles like a moron in the rest of the story.

 

Or blackmails it. Because he's so badass.

 

Or threatening to burn it, that's always a cladsic

 

Imagine the Sorting with jbern's Hat from TLIL. Just imagine.

*stares into distance, imagining*

 

Possibly the best part of the story.