New Potter Rule: There is never a good reason to use Japanese.

Champions was blegh terrible. It reads like a terribad Harmony story, only where Hermione is french, hot, and separated into both herself and her father.

The 'romance' has the subtlety of a freight train, and the conclusions the characters draw are utter bullshit, my favorite being:

The fuck is this. If you presented any fourteen boy with the choice: get legally married and fuck an older girl who is quite literally more beautiful than humanly possible, they're going to jump at the chance. And it's not because they're all oh so noble.

Course, presenting Harry with a 'cake or death' set of choices removes any sense of decision-making for either party, and so the laughable concept of nobility is moot.

The story continues much in the same vein. Albus is his usual Harmony!Dumbledore self, and oh what a surprise, so is Ron. Derp derp derp.

So yeah, if you enjoy below-par Harmony fics and can convince yourself that copypasta name change and aesthetics make Fleur a new character, then knock yourselves out. I for one have no intention continuing this story, and neither should you because I can finish it for you right now: (Note, some of these may have already happened, since I'm not going to continue.)

Spoiler

- Harry and Fleur get married, live happily ever after, and with Hermione's help defeat Voldemort
- Ron will try to rape someone, probably Hermione.
- Dumbledore gets humiliated at every turn, as Harry finds out that he's responsible for everything from blocking his fanmail to stealing from his vaults. Probably paying off the Weasleys.
- Ginny will try and fail to love potion Harry. Either the potion goes wrong, or his love for Fleur cancels it out. This may be the first time that there is 'proof' of his love.
- Harry will be both remarkably independent (TAKE THAT, YOU OLD COOT) while still proving to have a romantic and overbearingly chivalrous streak. However, Fleur will never use this as an excuse to just walk all over the schmuck.
- Occlumency will be learned, but it will be fucking terrible, probably involving castles with moats and/or Obsidian shields.

Congrats, you're done.

 

Cockroach!Snake!Nundu!Harry who kills people for food/because he doesn't like them/all humans need to be destroyed.

Starts off trying to be quite serious and it just doesn't work, the reasons for Harry being so bloodthirsty and shit is just plain stupid. Chapters 5 and 6 have been more crack fic-ish, not sure if that's been done intentionally though and it becomes a little easier to read. Haven't read 7 yet.

 

Okay. Harry started talking to a cockroach in the first chapter and I had to put it down. Seriously, a better candidate for the WTF fic thread than it is for almost recommended.

 

I've been following this actually, probably because I'm pretty much getting what I was expecting after the first few lines, brutality and rare concepts aside. Sure, it's pretty out there and plays with clichés a bit, but I haven't read stuff like this for quite a while. Definitely not a For Review candidate, but I still find it rather entertaining. Maybe it's just my craving for supernatural elements coming through though.

 

This story is exactly what is says on the tin. It's the diary conversations between Ginny and Tom that happened in COS. So we already know how the story's going to end. This also has the disadvantage of being written before OOTP.

BUT Tom Riddle's characterization is spot on and that is what makes it worth reading. Truly one of the best characterizations of him that I've seen. The story itself really starts picking up in its second half and surprisingly became pretty suspenseful even with the ending being obvious.

I guess what keeps me from reccing this is the main character, but hey try it out if you have time. The excellent writing is another thing that makes it worth the read.

 

^I completely agree with this rec. Tom is creepily awesome and scary. The only problem I had was the author using Virginia instead of Ginevra, but you can fix that with a Find-Replace.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4198892/1/First_Place_Sinner by Daystar Clarion

In which Harry has Petunia's love, though it makes him bleed. Rated M For masochism, drug abuse, and other mature themes
Harry Potter - Rated: M - English - Horror/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 11,749 - Reviews: 59 - Published: 4-15-08 - Harry P. & Petunia D. - Complete


Seems like it's going to fail utterly, but it doesn't. Both creepy and kinda believable. Probably the some of the most haunting('cause it's so disturbing) HP fanfiction I've read.
I wouldn't rec it to the library because it's angsty/cutting/sadomasochism...Awesome fic.

 

Fucking awesome find. Best oneshot I've read in months.

If you like those types of fics, you might like this one even though most of DLP doesn't.

...........

Here's something I just found.

A pretty good read for fans of Tom Riddle stories. Kinda poetic too.


EDIT: Wait First Place Sinner is in the recycling bin? What the hell is it doing there? Quick we need to get it out!

 

On the other side, "Servant of the Dark" from the same author is much better, IMO. It's a bit creepy though, much like when watching an episode of Dexter for the first time.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4969049/1/Servant_of_the_Dark

 

I often do find/replace when someone writes Ginerva instead of Ginevra.

This story has been mentioned here before, and I liked it then. I always sort of wanted to see a sequel/continuation.

Edit: Which is odd, because bleak fic isn't my scene, but most of those just hammer you with the horrible things happening to Harry and his friends, while losing the human thread. This story, on the other hand, delved more into interpersonal relationships (well, the one between Harry and Petunia, at least), which was what I found so interesting.

There are some typos (as/an, of/off) that really should have been fixed by now and a curious habit of using the phrase 'took a swig of his cigarette' instead of 'took a drag off his cigarette', but not bad on the whole.

 

Sorry Warlocke(and everyone else who witnessed the horror that is Ginerva instead of Ginevra) for that error. It's been corrected. The same author who wrote The Very Secret Diary has a few other good fics.

 

Surprisingly good, actually. Really short, but creepy.

 

Just found this, haven't read it yet though.

 

Yeah, just finished chapter 3.
Tracy Davis = Tracy Davis Riddle
Dumbledore = Super evil overlord
Voldemort = Misunderstood freedom fighter
Hermione = Spy

:|

 

o.0


(filler)

 

I know that both have been posted in here already but I quite like these two, they wouldn't make it into the library and there's been several new chapters since they were last posted. The first one in particular is a guilty pleasure fic of mine.

 

I'm pretty sure both were recommended already.

 

It depends on how it's done. I think one of the better concepts of this type out there is this Star Trek: The Next Generation episode.

 

Ever since 'To be Loved' has transformed into 'Loved, and Overbearingly So', I've been unable to stomach it. It's like Rocag's story - solid technically if not outstanding, readable plot if not anything new. Then it pushed a little too hard on the romance throttle, and what interest there was died during the long and continuous declarations of true love.

Might as well be Harmony.

 

Well.... Does canon ever go into grizzly details, or is that just fanon? I remember that generally we hear that the time before Voldemort's backfired Curse were "Bad" and "Really bad".

I think that's a highly plausible plot bunny tbh.... if you can get around the whole Purebloods thing.

Since it's posted here and not in plot bunnies thread... can we assume.. that they didn't?