Title: The Last Mudblood
Author: furiosity
Rating: R
Genre: Drama/Suspense
DLP Category: Dark Arts
Pairing: None
Status: Oneshot
Summary: The war is over, and Voldemort has won. Harry Potter is dead. Neville Longbottom is a Death Eater, and together with Draco Malfoy they lead a manhunt for Hermione Granger. It's really that simple. Or is it?
Link: http://www.glass-fairytales.net/hp/lastmudblood.html

Don't be put off by the starting section, where the characterisation may seem off. It's easy to write this fic off as OOC, but once you're in, everything falls into place. This is a fic that can break your heart, twist the world that you know, and leave you shaking. 4/5

 

I read what was posted- it's a well-made dystopia centered around Neville. The situation is grim but believable and the writing is competent. I was drawn into the scenes quite easily and the characterizations were quite well-done.

My problem with it is that it doesn't quite finish. Maybe I'm too hopeful for a resolution in such a story, but it feels like the first of three sections that might eventually resolve the fates of the characters. Otherwise, it's just a chronicle of the last gasp of hope in that world.

If it were truly tragic, I would have gotten the catharsis- instead I'm left hanging. Worth a look but not a winner, exactly.

3.5/5

 

What? Others were merely obliviated, on top of this it is not like Tom did anything with fact that new Muggle-born will appear. Especially in oneshot it is enough to move it from 4/5 (decent, quite interesting, no omph) to 2/5.

 

Great writing, good characterization especially how consorting with the enemy changes one. However, as pointed out there is no resolution.

One small trip up I had related to the "wipe their memories" rather then "kill them" plan since wiping their memories won't prevent them from doing accidental magic. Still overall well done.

 

The story lacked a real ending. It seemed almost pointless to have read it by the end. By itself, it doesn't do much except paint a bleak picture of a scattered resistance barely even existing. 2/5

There isn't a problem in just wiping their memories because as adults they don't do accidental magic any more.

 

It feels like more of a beginning of a proper story than a One-Shot. There was no ending, nothing close to closure, nothing. Just an extremely dark world with pretty much no real hope.

 

I would give it a 3/5.

The content of this one-shot tugged at the heart stings a bit, the world was portrayed as pretty bleak and depressing. People making the best at what's left

However having said that it was lacking any solid ending or plot resolution... it kinda just dies on you.