So, you read a fic. And in it, Dumbledore is manipulative, et cetera, usually with a big side helping of "I want you to do this because I said so", and repeatedly displays examples of this obtuseness throughout the fic. Example: wants to send Harry back to the Dursleys over repeated objections ( Read more... )

Just boring moderator stuff for some reminders and whatnot.

Tags can be found here. Tag your posts with abandon judiciousness ( Read more... )

I've noticed this cropping up in some of the post-OotP/HBP fics I've been (re)reading ( Read more... )

... with, I hope, a light hand.

Greetings, all, new admin at your service.

So you all are aware, I plan to retain the existing policies as outlined in the user info section of potter_cliche (which you can find by looking at this link, which has been updated to remove some personal references that do not apply to me), and I will also retain the ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

If I EVER see another badly written song fic, poem or ficlet featuring EMO!Snape angsting over Lily EVER again on my flist, it will be too soon.

Stop already, we get it: your fav pairing is now canon.

Well, we are now in the 3rd month since DH and beginning to see fics where Snape did not die - as we knew we would. Don't get me wrong - I'm all for it, but I have only read one WIP so far that has kept to canon Snape. Too many others have him "reborn" as a kind of "Mr Universe", "Cat-walk King" and "Supercook" rolled into one. The greasy hair and ( Read more... )

I hate, hate, hate-hate HATE! review whoring. I have stopped reading stories based on petulant comments by the author that went along the lines of "Review or I'll stop writing" (and sometimes in so many words ( Read more... )

It was Jossed, or rather, Jo'd, once and for all with HP and the DH. And I get to gloat a bit.

( Behind a cut just in case )

I ran across a great fic recently that was just ruined completely because the author was an anime fangirl (as seems to be far too par for the course), and picked some lamebrain Japanese name for a character in her HP fic; in this particular case a white person picked a Japanese pseudonym ( Read more... )