Title: The Union
Author: lunakatrina
Rating: T
Genre: Humor/General
DLP Category: Humor
Pairing: None
Status: WiP
Summary: Harry learns the terrible secret of being a wizard... and is totally confused about Voldemort. But he knows one thing: Voldemort sadistically killed his parents. ...Or did he? Gen, crack, is strangely relevent to actual politics...maybe, AU
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What can I say? I found it to be hilarious. The author also wrote "Oswald the Ottoman," another cracky story. 5/5 from me. Also, let me know if I made any mistakes in posting.

 

Maybe i'm just not awake, or maybe I would have to get high to laugh out of the story. Or I guess it's just me. The story wasn't funny at all. I'd have to be extremely bored and need a 5 minute killer to read it. 1/5

 

Pretty fail as a rereadable fic. I mean, it's a quickie, and I guess I do get a mental chuckle from it, but it is just pretty stupid. I mean, Draco is a little pansyass who doesn't know how to lift a tea cozy for himself without a trio of houseelves there to give him instructions and lift his arms for him. He's kinda loud in his arrogance in this bit.

Harry being confused was kinda endearing but... blah.1/5?

 

I liked it. Its a canon fact that wizards are uber-conservative and the idea of the DEs being radical socialists wanting to prevent muggleborns taking advantage of them tickles my fancy. Not high class stuff though, and its only one chapter. 3.5/5.

 

Well the idea has some merit, but it did not really work.

 

If this story was better constructed, I might like it more. It feels like one of those things you come into halfway through. If this idea was cleaned up, mapped out, and longer, it would be better. Right now it is wtf!funny.

 

Not very good. Was it trying to be humor? If so I only found one part remotely funny, and its not even really that good.

“Witches and wizards built Atlantis?” Hermione asked.“No, but we demolished it in one day."

 

I think that you need to be either in a union position or a manager who deals with unions to understand the jokes here. The fact that Malfoy is in the union leads me to believe that the author is in management. The fact that Ron is a designer seems to reaffirm that belief. His remark about color coordination is funny, especially since it's impossible to get any two designers to use the same standards. For those of you who don't know, a designer in this context does a fair amount of work with AutoCAD. They are not in managerial positions though.


It's a bit of a narrow brand of humor, but I find it amusing. As of now, 3/5. This is still a little bit short to recommend though.

 

This... was retarded. Construction jokes? Complete fail. I give it 1/5.

 

This...didn't work for me. Realistically, if we are expected to believe that the entire Wizarding World is based around construction...you would think that it would have been mentioned...maybe once. Lunakatrina made almost no effort to incorporate canon into this beyond mentioning Grindelwald and Voldemort.

Humor-wise...it simply wasn't funny. The premise was so abstract to how I interpret the Harry Potter universe that I found myself unable to associate the characters you wrote with the characters from the books.

This gets a 2/5 from me. Grammar wise its clean, but content wise I did not enjoy.

 

I kind of like this idea. I can see how it could make for a humorous fic. But the reason I can imagine it working is because the story so far *just* doesn't quite work. The humor feels more like a forced laugh track. And the idea of unions versus management feels like it's not quite fitted into the HP characters. Draco's attitude didn't fit for Draco. Ron's attitude didn't fit for Ron. And Harry was just the class clown in this first chapter.

It could work. But it doesn't. 3/5 feels too high and 2/5 feels too low, so I'll see if the next chapter pushes it either way.

 

Forced. Way too forced.

 

1/5 for thecrack fic. It was just stupid, and not the funny kind.

 

Meh tbh. Just meh. The only fic from lunakatrina that I have really ever liked was "So Sue Me"

Rest have been ok, readable, decent, but this one was pretty terrible.

 

Hmmm... Mildly amusing, but nothing special, or laugh out loud funny for that matter.

2/5.

 

I found it almost amusing, but the characters weren't really suited to their roles. The idea that Ron is a designer of any merit is...well, very strange to me. But, I do like the idea of basing the wizarding world on a construction company, and the 'dark wizards' being pro union, it's creative. 3/5