Or he gets 'Intense Glowing Green Eyes', or maybe 'Killing Curse Green'

 

Or he gets a staff because his magical power is too strong to work with a wand.

 

Or gets a custom made wand with seven types of wood and multiple cores.

 

One of those cores is either thestral hair or basilisk venom. Or both.

 

Or, you know, this... :awesome

 

yup that, because there's nothing wrong with all of that:facepalm

 

I don't have an inherent problem with soul mates or soul bonds. It is magic, after all. But what I do hate is soul bonds being formed by one kiss. Normally with a golden glow appearing that they don't notice.

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If I were to write a soul bond fic, it would be Ginny deciding that since Harry and Ginny are so obviously soul mates they should go through the soul bond ritual since it would be so romantic. At which point they find out that it is a seven step process-

1. They share their bodies - they have sex for an hour or so in a ritualistic way.
2. After 24 hours of letting that soak in, they share their blood - in another ritual they magically make the blood not kill each other then swap half their blood with each other.
3. After another 24 hours they share their magic - they cast a special spell which mixes together their magic and lets them feel each other's magic for an hour.
4. Another 24 hours, and they share their mind - via an altered legilimency they experience each other's thoughts for an hour.
5. There should be another two in order to have seven parts. Legally, via marriage? Another way entirely?
6. Finally, after another 24 hours, they share their souls. Via some spell or other. I don't even care since it wouldn't get that far.

So in the theoretical story Ginny and Harry would try to do the soul bond ritual. The only thing is, they have to stay together at all times during the whole ritual.

However, all the different parts start to piss each other off. Ginny gets pissed off by Harry looking at other girls and fantasising about things like a threesome, Harry gets squicked by the fact that Ginny actually uses a toilet and isn't the image he's placed on a pedestal, Ginny has to deal with the experiences of abuse, Harry wants to get away for a while and fly but the ritual doesn't let him, their magic doesn't like each other and they have to endure the feeling for the hour, Harry sees how much of a Boy-Who-Lived fangirl she really is, Ginny finds out about the time Harry and Hermione had sex in the tent while on a downer and gets jealous...

It ends up with them giving up part way through and breaking up. Maybe meeting 17 years later with the knowledge that if they hadn't tried to do the soul bond they'd be together with kids, seeing their children off to Hogwarts. The story ends with the moral that trying to force a relationship to go faster than it should will often destroy it and leave a scar.

 

The only problem I have with your breakdown is: you really think the Weasleys have a toilet?? I always pictured the lot of them simply copping a squat in the yard. I mean, what do you think all those garden gnomes live off of, veggies from the garden?

 

That's your only problem. Not the seven different ways of exchanging bodily fluids, with magic. Or the use of every Ginny bashing cliche. Not that there's a problem with Ginny bashing, but at least make it inventive.

 

Interesting and intriguing somewhat, but I still wouldn't read it >:

/Yay, first post!

 

And a brilliant one at that.

 

There's plenty wrong with Ginny bashing. Specifically the bashing part.

Because bashing sucks.

 

Stories based on Reptilia28's challenge. The idea to introduce some death/guardian/god characters as writer self inserts is braindead and kills any immersion.

 

Thanks dude ;P

No idea if this has been said before, but what annoys the hell me are My Immortal re-do fics. The original was amusing, and while my soul was slowly dying a very painful death, I finished it. After enduring that, I've really got no wish to read a tribute story. I run into them whenever I have the pleasure of viewing the first Harry Potter page on FFn.

 

One of my pet peeves are the Head Unspeakable Nicholas Flamel in badly written indy Harry fics.

 

Admittedly Flamel as the head of the Unspeakables is something that could be made into something awesome, but I agree it's always shit.

 

Lately I've been reading second gen. Harry Potter fics... How does Ron Weasley ever have a job? That honestly pisses me off. He's a complete moocher and lazy. I can barely see him holding basic hygiene principles much less a job.

Write Ron Weasley as he'd really turn out; Living with his parents obsessing over the chudley cannons and getting off on posters of the Harpies. Fat, Obese and sad.

Other Pet peeve, Explaining Luna lovegood as odd for some reason or it has a meaning. No Luna is odd because she likes being that way. There's no deeper meaning, no special powers, no nothing. She's eccentric.

 

New pet peeve: the exact opposite of this. Post canon Ron as a lazy, do nothing bum completely ignores the fact that he did grow as a character.

 

Fics that are comprised of dialogue alone.

 

Ron grows and regresses, a lot. Plus his growth was never really towards something like work ethic, it was usually towards not being thickheaded.