Worse, is with all this 'new and extra knowledge', Harry does not do any extra research or make use of the fact that he has access to sources of information that he would not normally have paid any attention to. He's back at Hogwarts, with the massive library, and knows how to get into the Black library which is intact at the typical temporal incursion point of 1991.


Sure, if he's 100blahblah years old he's done a lot of research, maybe. Usually he's returning because something went craptastic in the future, or he wasn't suppose to marry golddigger!Ginny, or whatever, so it stands to reason that he would use his trip to the past to look at things unrelated to Voldemort that he missed the first time around because of his canon failings at study in general.

Plus, he still manages to act like an ass and completely ignore 80% of the people going to school with him.

 

This past Sunday was the first 24 hour period without a smoke. I've been nicotine free since (As of midnight tonight, it'll mark the end of the third day without tobacco).

The cravings are much fewer and further between now, and don't seem to last so long. Good luck on quitting, El Duderino.

 

Cheers bossman. I find cutting down to be much easier though. Stops me from collapsing. Good luck to you on your endeavors.

 

I found that graduating from law school was very conducive to quitting.

 

Until you start work as a lawyer.

 

I strongly dislike when authors overuse the word 'sneer'.

 

Don't you know? Sneering and smirking are the only two facial expressions that Slytherins are allowed to have.

 

That's not true, I have seen read several stories where Snape 'Bares his teeth in anger' I'm not sure how a Human baring their teeth is supposed to be scary or intimidating though.

Time Travel stories where the first chapter shows Harry going back in time and then the rest of the story is just copied out of the book because a 13 year old Hermione Granger once mentioned that it was dangerous to meddle with the timeline.

Azkaban stories where Harry is forced to watch all of Gryffindor burn his things really piss me off recently, why authors think that the staff would force a teenager that has powerful accidental magic at times of emotional distress witness the burning of the only things he has that reminds him of his parents (his photo album and his invisibility cloak) is honestly beyond me. I mean he inflated his Uncle's sister just for saying bad things about his parents, could you imagine what would happen if they forced him to witness that.

 

I've seen one where Ron cripples and then kills Hedwig in front of Harry. I mean, seriously, Hedwig?

Still, the king (or queen?) of pet peeves has to be mpreg. It doesn't really peeve me so much as completely baffle me. I want to find the first 14 y/o girl who came up with that concept and lobotomize her.

 

Mpreg is creepy as fuck, it would make more sense and be easier to explain if the male who was going to get pregnant was somehow turned into a female, at least then they would actually have a fucking womb to carry a child. Im not sure who started the idea of Mpreg but i am guessing in was in a crack one-shot that a fan girl read and though 'oohhhhh that is so kool i can totally get Harry and Draco together now and they can have the family that Harry has always wanted and Draco has always secretly wanted' and shit just escalated from there.

I don't mind reading an occasional story that has a male/male pairing if it has a good plot and is written well but recently i have stopped even reading the odd one that i would read. Why the fuck do people who have the main pairing as male/male feel the need to make every character in the damn story homosexual?
If your friend told you he/she was gay you wouldn't say "That's okay i accept you because I am secretly gay to, both my parents are also gay but stay together so people don't ask awkward questions, my uncles are gay and so are Mary and Jane down the street" No, it's fucking annoying and makes me want to shoot people.

 

It's meant to be an imitation of how a wolf baring their teeth at you is terrifying, or at least that's what I would think. It'd be easier to have him snarl, in my opinion, since that's actually something a human being can physically do. We don't have the teeth for simply showing them to be terrifying, we have to accentuate them with a facial expression or a noise. Smiles that don't reach the eyes are creepy because the rest of the face doesn't move with the smile.

Generally speaking, it's a 14-year old girl (or a woman with that mentality), getting wish fulfillment. Homosexuality in and of itself is not a bad thing, so long as it is not a defining aspect of the character. Sexuality is a thing, yes, but their personality should not revolve around their sexuality, and while there are people who are like that, (Cormac McLaggen comes to mind), nearly every single person outside of their circle of friends recognizes them for the douche they are.

As an aside, in my opinion, just like there are niggers and there are black men, there are fags and there are homosexual men.

It's a shitty plot device, plain and simple. It gives them an excuse to write a story where Harry bashes everyone and their mother in every single conversation he has, not realizing that by doing that they're making him an emo douche with an amazing amount of narcissim. This, too, is wish fulfillment, of the kind that we here at DLP have created with our discussions on the topics of where Harry could have been without Ron and Hermione. It's also a really shitty indy cliche that he can go further by himself than he can with anyone else, from back in '07 and the years right around that when stuff like jbern's work was still considered good.

In jbern's defense, his stuff isn't bad, it just hasn't aged well. You can go back and read TLIL right now and, while it won't be up to snuff with today's standards, it's worth the read if you haven't. So is Bungle, to be honest.

 

You must obviously be mental. TLIL is on my top three fics of all time, as well as the best Harry/Fleur fic there is.

Personal opinion and all that, I suppose, but still. Mental.

 

I actually find the idea of Ron gratuitously killing Hedwig to be slightly less dumb than them burning Harry's cloak and Firebolt, since things with high sentimental value but low value otherwise are ideal for spiteful destruction.

It's basically the same situation as with a lot of Jeconais's stories, where every aspect of them has been copied endless times, but without the redeeming qualities that make up for the problems.

 

Uh, yeah. I know there are people on DLP who don't like TLIL, which is fine, but to pretend that it's somehow a "bad" story (especially relative to most Indy!Harry fanfics) is hilarious.

 

I read TLIL i think one maybe two years ago and I enjoyed it, I doubt it would seem as good if I read it now but I have some time to kill so I think I will find out.

Veela Harry stories :facepalm when i first found one of these I thought that it would be an interesting read, what with Veela being able to wandlessly control fire and being able to turn into a bird/human hybrid but I found myself disappointed as every single one I have read turns into some kind of Harem/Soul bond/Forced Mating crap with multiple sex scenes every chapter that I just cannot stand to read. To make things worse there are dozens of Veela Draco stories popping up on fanfiction.net where Draco is a Veela (because he is blonde ) is mated to a submissive Harry who acts like a girl. I have yet to find a good story where Harry has Veela abilities or is a Veela and people keep posting virtually the same story so I have given up attempting to find a good one.

 

TLIL is one of the few stories that I still like to go back and re-read. And even though Bungle hasn't quite aged as well, it's still worth a good 4 stars.

 

Where did I say it was bad? I specifically said it wasn't. To expound upon what I was saying, since you guys obviously jumped the gun, I'm saying that if you compared it (which I do believe has 5 stars in the library, I could be wrong) to, say, Harry Potter and the Boy Who Lived, it doesn't stack up.

Also, Bill, I think 4 stars is right on the money. Objectively, I'd probably give it 3.5 right now, although I'd bump it up to four for the nostalgia.

 

Uh... what? HP&BWL is only good because of the originality and characterizations. Despite its popularity, there are at least a few "better" fics in the library and/or written by DLPers. The technical writing is at best acceptable. The same is true for TLIL, but it had the same high points at the time it was written (and, arguably, now, despite its popularity as an Indy!Harry fic, only the most superficial elements have been copied by other stories).

 

Different strokes for different folks, as they say. Or, you could always go with this; But that's, like, your opinion, man.

And that's all this entire discussion has been. Opinions.

 

To be fair, canon did sort of sexually objectify veela or anyone with veela blood.

There's a bit of a debate out there regarding veela - does having veela blood make you a veela, if there are no veela males (WOMBAT question), or does it follow the 'mixed race' angle, e.g., being half-Black/half-White or half-Latino/half-Asian, or do 'proper' veela come around again when the male descendant of a veela's bloodline gets together with another veela or veela-descended woman, strengthening the trait?

Most male veela stories are simply plot devices used to have Harry taking it up the ass from Malfoy.

I would read a straight male veela story, if it turned the tropes linked with the label on their heads (e.g. male veela being so uncontrollably violent, they're locked away for everyone's safety, and are monogamous, etc).

But, then again, the fan-fiction on FFn is more likely to become pure quality before something like the above happens. :facepalm