Title: Stupid Is As Stupid Does
Author: sugerplumfairy
Rating: K+
Pairing: HP/BZ
Category: General/Romance
Summery: Everything was going fine for Blaise, good grades, good summer, hell she even got through a day without arguing with her Mother, but when she gets back to Hogwarts, unpleasent surprises seem to follow her around, the DADA teacher and being made to partner Harry Potter.
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3370272/1/

An interesting story. A little bit slow sometimes but otherwise very good. It hasn’t been that much romance yet but hopefully more will come soon.

 

I love this story!
But then again i love all HP/BZ(fem) so i'm biased.

Intresting fic if a tad bit slow.

I'll follow it and see where it goes though, more Harry/(fem)Slytherin!!

Off topic: Has anyone seen Harry/older (fem)slytherin?

 

got to say this is one of the good Blaise fics I've read. can't wait till next chapter

 

I like this fic a lot so far. I have no problem with the pacing, except what I mentioned in a review. Namely, the seperate chapters covering the same ground from different perspectives, but I don't think it happened too much.

 

Well Malfoy is strange, I mean Slytherin is everything he isn't.

 

Well there we have it wuss!Harry vs. wuss!Malfoy.

 

which loser will win? place your bets ladys and gentlemen....

 

This fic seems to be doing rather well. I have to give it a thumbs up...

And in this highest standards of necromancy...

Draw. They both bleed on the floor like the sloppy cunts they are.

 

good story, if slow.
Malfoy is much worse than harry

 

It's really not a good story, at all.

 

2 year necro. Christ.

 

Eh, I'm not sure what I dislike more, stupid necros or newbs (and non-newbs) posting one-liners to whine about necros in the Library.

Yes, I'm pretty sure it's the latter.

ANYWAY. If reviews like Blaze's cause people to read the story and actually rate it, thus helping us to get rid of the old, shitty stories still cluttering the Library, then so much the better. This Guy, since you're here and are apparently keen on posting -- would you care to give us a piece of your mind about the story?


EDIT: I trudged through 3 chapters. 2/5 because, writing-wise, it's readable. Some grammar and punctuation errors, and an annoying habit to use present in the middle of a fic in past (something that would be somewhat acceptable in a diary but just doesn't sound good in a story). Otherwise it's a reasonably good style of writing, enjoyable, neither pompous nor poor.

I think I dislike all the rest. When the author described Harry's summer, I thought she was summing up the first few chapters of OotP -- until 'Cedric' was randomly replaced with 'Sirius'. Otherwise, it's all there, the friends who don't keep him informed, the nightmares, the anger and angst, etc.

Harry's characterisation: nothing original. I mean, he's the eternal brat with delusions of badassness that infests the Independent genre like to a cholera epidemic. Symptoms include: casual use of magic out of school, bypassing Tonks in a fit of adolescent rebellion, looking at his 'so-called friends' with raaaaaage in his vibrant green eyes, and thinking lines such as:

This feeling is intensified when Harry says "Screw 'em!" in a great shout for freedom and independence. By 'them', he means the Aurors, and by 'screw them', he means going into Knockturn Alley to spite those who are in charge of his security. Because we all know spiting Aurors and Order members is tons more important than avoiding running into Death Eaters who want him dead.

Two lines later:

Oh, you think?

Mmh, did I mention I suspected that Harry suffered from anorexia? There are too many people lamenting over his 'skeleton-like' aspect for my liking.

Blaise's characterisation: almost as clichéd as Harry's. Pure-blood but against all the evil prejudices of the pure-blood class, and therefore misunderstood by her family -- stupid futile mother, stupid prejudiced father, stupid telltale of a brother. And so we learn that fem!Blaise is in fact fem!Sirius in disguise!

What else... She's witty, strong, not easily intimidated, cool, etc. Strong suspicion of self-insert. 'Slytherin' is constantly used as an adjective ("my slytherin side, my slytherin brain, in perfect slytherin voice, it would have been very slytherin" etc)... People give houses way too much importance.

Now to be just, Mrs Weasley is very, very IC. The copy/paste kind of IC.

Now, the romance.

Well, Harry noticed Ginny was becoming pretty. It was rather awkwardly done, which doesn't bode well for the author's ability to write romance. However, not wanting to make assumptions on such a short passage, I kept reading.

And I found the dreaded premise to SO many romances:

Spoiler

when Harry saves Blaise from being raped.

Cannot go on.

 

I read all six chapters that are posted only because I knew that there were only six chapters. The Sirius-angst is stifling, and the female-point-of-view is distasteful to read. I don't quite know how the author went wrong, but Takeda Lee's Slytherin Queen, Harry/Blaise, Blaise's POV, tears this one to shreds and is a much better read.

The author invested a lot of effort in making Harry conflicted, but because it's the generic angst except in much greater volume, it just makes him pathetic.

The actual writing makes the story seem better than it actually is, but even the technics aren't really up to par. 2/5.

 

This is actually in rewrite. It was originally a 100k+ word story that the author took down and is now in the process of rewriting it. However, it seems like she dropped it altogether, as there hasn't been an update in awhile.

I wish she didn't take down the rest of the story. It actually got a lot better when the story moved to Hogwarts. I've been wanting to reread this for a long time, as I remember it being somewhat good, but it doesn't look like that's going to be possible, unless someone here saved the original story before she took it down.

 

Yeah, skipping over all of the intervening chapters kinda pissed me the fuck off. As is, .5/5