Title: The MARVELous Harry Potter
Author: evildaystar.ca
Rating: M
Genre: Adventure
Status: In-Progress
Library Category: The Alternates
Pairings:
Summary: After graduation Harry is accidentally sent to an alternate universe
Link: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13011075/1/The-MARVELous-Harry-Potter

This story is pretty good, though I am concerned it may get less good as time goes on.

What's good, is how Harry takes to the Marvel universe. There's no immediate induction into SHIELD, nor does he miraculously run into Tony Stark in the middle of thousands of square miles of desert. After discovering his situation, he decides to become a PI, and there's a few chapters of him doing his own thing with the whole 'wizard PI' shtick. I enjoyed it, he's not been powered up from what we see in canon, really. He's no Dumbledore reborn, so using magic to smooth his way as a private investigator is actually pretty fun to read.

What concerns me is that he's recently been caught in SHIELD's ever present tendrils, and the story is currently running through the events of the Avengers movie, with a few minor changes. I really hope that once that's done, Harry goes back to do some more PI stuff.

The writing is decent. It's highly focused and doesn't waste words, though perhaps it tends towards being spare at times. It's descriptive without being especially evocative, but it does the job.

 

Derp. I rated it in stars. Think I gave it a 3/5.

 

Very readable, and decently written with a few essentially unforgivable mistakes (how many times was it "Rodgers" instead of "Rogers"?) - I like this Harry, which always is a big deal for me, and mostly the MCU characters seem in character. I think it's in the official "I want to keep reading but it's not like it's amazing or anything" area.

3/5

 

I think one of the most unforgivable sins was how many times the word fuck was used with random symbols. Every time i saw f@&k it made me want to f&@cking die.

Like if you don’t want to curse, fine. Stories don’t need cursing just for the sake of cursing. If you are going to curse, though, just use the goddamn curse instead of pussyfooting around it. Especially when that random character used it like three times in quick succession.

2/5, it just never really caught hold of me after that.

 

I managed to read two chapters and I'm done. I could maybe look past the constant miss-spelling of the names if the dialogue wasn't terrible and the description uninspiring. Not even quarantine could make me keep going.

2/5

 

It's a bit interesting at points and seeing Harry interacting in this world was enough to allow me to stomach the lack of quality in writing, and I even enjoyed Harry being roped in to SHIELD. But when it starts telling the same story we've all experienced many times beat by beat and even copies the dialogue from the movies, that's an absolute deal breaker. 2/5