Title: The Lion's Pride
Author: Silently Watches
Rating: T
Genre: Parody
Status:Complete (3,206 words)
Library Category: General
Pairings: none
Summary: Rufus doesn't know why Harry Potter thinks him such a villain, but he certainly does not appreciate the churlish attitude. Canon scene from a different POV
Link: FanFiction.Net

This story is a short exploration of Rufus Scrimgeour's thoughts about Harry and Dumbledore in HBP. It's well written and the voice seems in character for both, though the dialogue is a direct lift from canon.

4/5

 

I could see this being Scrimgeour's thoughts in this scene, to some degree. However the fact that the author passes this off as a more reasonable interpretation of Scrimgeour - while basically giving him the same paranoid mindset of Fudge...

In any case, Scrimgeour's attitude towards Harry and Dumbledore felt a bit too much like the author writing his own complaints about the canon characters into Scrimgeour's attitude.

Of course this can all be explained by the author choosing to write from a biased perspective in the form of Scrimgeour, however the changing of certain details (Dumbledore having more power than in canon, the details of Stan Shunpike's arrest, Dumbledore subsequently "ordering" Shunpike's release over forty times), suggests otherwise.

In any case, there isn't really enough in terms of new content to rate this too high. It was fine technically, but as a parody it isn't particularly humorous. I'd put it at... 2/5.

 

The concept is moderately interesting, but it's ruined by the author's compulsive need to slip Dumbledore bashing into everything. It's relatively minor here, but the whole concept of showing a canon scene from the different perspective doesn't really work when it's not actually canon-compliant.

 

This is okay. Neither good nor bad, but definitely inconsequential.

As others noted, it lifts dialogue straight from the books and basically tacks on thoughts from Scrimgeour's POV. I don't think it butchers his or Harry's character so much as it doesn't have anything interesting to say. There's no conflict and no major illumination of anything we were curious about. It's just a single, competently-written scene from a minor character's POV.

2.5/5 for what it is.

 

I thought with the concept this would be a bit more interesting than it was.

Decently written, but as already said, it lifts all it's dialogue from the book and simply slips in Dumbledore bashing where it's not really needed. There wasn't a need for a canon rehash. A scene from the ministers office doing the exact same thing (thinking back on this canon scene for example) would have sufficed for the concept and probably would have been much more interesting.

In my opinion, if you're going to rehash canon in a clumsy way like this, it shouldn't be in the library.

2/5