Poor!Harry stories. Raped!Harry, Abused by the Dursely's!Harry, Abandonned by his friends!Harry Poor abused!Harry turns into Poor Abused!Harry with WINGS
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My least favorite reason for abused!Harry is to turn him into dark!Harry who ends up siding with the bad guys because Dumbledore placed him with the Dursleys, his friends are stupid and unsupportive, et cetera. Like Voldemort's going to show up and be filled with righteous indignation on Harry's behalf (which happens far too often in fics for my tastes).
Oh god, I hate that with a passion. OOCness, I can handle... but Harry turning dark because of it is just too irritating. Unfortunately there is a LOT of those fics.
I've got to say, I have yet to see people having Harry get turned into the equivalent of a house-elf in a creature!Harry fic, though it's just as equally probable as the cute winged Harry. Heh.
The sad thing is, people seem to eat this stuff up. I've seen a rash of fics where Abandonned by his friends!Harry is supposedly being hemmed in by Big Bad Evil Dumbledore in which Ron and Hermione were just in it for the money and DD's orders and so instead of doing the sensible thing, which is for Harry to go find Griphook, do an instant Gringotts withdrawal of all funds and get an illegal Portkey to Beauxbatons, he goes and calls up Draco Malfoy (of the leather pants fame, too), upon which they practically salivate at the thought of being junior Death Eaters. Somehow I can't see Dumbledore letting that all happen under his nose at Hogwarts.
(Or Draco's a little woobie and won't join Voldemort but can teach Harry the alluring evil dark arts et cetera and so on.)
lol And its the reason that I"ve been turned off creature fics for so long. In fact a few months ago I came across a good one and it just blew me away!!! And its sad that I was so surprised that there was a good creature!Harry fic. She didn't load on the angst... She wrote very very well and best of all he wasn't raped. You'll prolly know it... EverNight by LilRinnieB. Finally someone has set a good standard for creature fics.
Taking up the original purpose of this cliche bashing, I *have* seen some other creature!Harry fics by some decent authors, too. That having been said there is this one creature!Harry fic that's been recced around and I just... eugh. I can't enjoy that fic. Harry is a creature whose sole purpose in the fic seems to be to obey the whims of certain other creatures, and Dumbledore doesn't do SFA to stop it, that champion of the underdog he claims to be.
I'm sorry, but this has relevance to the angsty!Harry cliche just how? I've seen your other comments on this community and I have to say, the sheer venomousness you put into trashing Harry Potter in particular strikes me as more than a little bit of ax-grinding.
I seem to recall you even took the whole Snape-at-the-Dursleys cliche on in a separate post in this community and spent several paragraphs just on that in and of itself.
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Or, heaven really forbid, troll!Harry? Poor sucker.
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(Or Draco's a little woobie and won't join Voldemort but can teach Harry the alluring evil dark arts et cetera and so on.)
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I seem to recall you even took the whole Snape-at-the-Dursleys cliche on in a separate post in this community and spent several paragraphs just on that in and of itself.
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