4174: Alex Taylor Series - Alexis "Alex" Taylor
Title: Why's It Gotta Be A Snake, Man's Best Friend, Memories Misplaced
Perpetrator: oooSilverWolfooo
Sue-O-Meter: Awful
Cover/Banner Art: I believe the two characters are the characters from Girl Meets World
Summary: “Alex Taylor comes from a rich pure-blood family, she lives in a manor, her father is well respected, and she has everything she needs. But she hates the cold open-spaces of her room, hates being alone in a house that can comfortably keep fifty people, and she doesn't want to go into the Slytherin House at Hogwarts. She has the most rotten luck too. OC”, “Alex Taylor is eagerly going into her second year at Hogwarts, along with her best friend Ginny Weasley. With more secrets piling up, new magical discoveries, and an escaped convicted murderer seemingly after the Boy-Who-Lived, her tensions grow. No one seems to believe her claims that Sirius Black is innocent and now she finds herself taking care of a stray dog that is just another”, “[Book 3 in Alex Taylor series] Alex Taylor's hopes of having a normal third year at Hogwarts crash and burn before it even starts when she learns of a plot that, quite literally, threatens the life of one of her close friends. But for the life of her, she can't remember what the plot is or who made it; just that it has something to do with her strange new house guest.”
Full Name: Alex “Alexis” Taylor
Species: She’s a pureblood, but also rich.
Hair: “I grin and run my hands through my short, light brown hair.”
Eyes: I kind of got fed up with this one. I can’t
Markings: She is the smallest in her year, something she declares before actually seeing everyone in her year, because she is always the smallest. She also has a small bruise under her eye she claims is from falling.
Possessions: “A small grey, almost white, feline rests on my shoulder with a death-like grip to keep from falling off.” The cat’s name is Astrid because it is Norse for “divine strength”. She has scissors on her for some strange reason. Alex has a boy’s uniform. “While at Olivander’s I had tried almost every wand when I spotted this one dusty and stuffed behind a bookshelf. He had grown pale when I picked it up and sparks flew out of it. He had tried to find me a different wand but something about it made me ask for it. He reluctantly wrapped it and sent me away with a wish of luck.” So, in other words she went through at least a hundred times the number of wands compared to Harry, among other things. It is “eleven inches, oak wood with dragon eyelash core and dipped in phoenix tears.” Suethor, dragons don’t have eyelashes, but this isn’t the standard fare for the wands he makes, but if he has a special wand for collection purposes, he’d keep it locked up and not share.
Connection to Canon: She’s in Ginny’s year, but makes friends with both Hermione and Ginny on the train. Which doesn’t make sense when - if Ginny had a friend, the journal might not have been an issue. Hermione helps her onto the train. For some reason Malfoy sticks glue in her hair, but instead of using magic she decides to cut her hair with her scissors she has. (Yes, I think the writer is going for a clumsy like Bella Swan type of character not realizing they’re not realistic at all.) She conveniently gets to cut her hair, but she also gets away with wearing the boys uniform because “heh heh, well… See, I don’t like skirts very much because they make me tripe. Plus, these are much more comfortable.” She didn’t get permission from the school to do this, but there is also the fact she’s going to be in the girl’s dorm. Nobody calls her out either. Then, she gets sorted into Slytherin and has an argument with the sorting hat, but I’m left wondering if the writer is going for “poor abused” Sue instead of “clumsy” Sue. Draco calls her cat a rat, but she doesn’t know who he is despite being a pureblood as well. She’s still not called out beyond the girls telling her the boys belong in the other dorm. Everybody continues to confuse her for a boy including Snape despite the fact they announced her as Alexis and not Alex. So, the adults look like idiots. Draco makes fun of her for hanging out with the friends of her choice and she hits him when he talks bad about Hermione. Ginny confesses she may have killed Filch’s cat in chapter five. I’m honestly getting a bit board with this one, but skipping ahead - she pretty much becomes a parasite Sue and joins everyone down in the Chamber of Secrets despite the fact there is no real logic behind why she would, but then again, Ginny’s still diving into the journal despite having a friend, so… Let’s just say if there was an explanation, I’ve not got the patience to find out if there is a logical one or not.
Origin: The writer’s writing is confusing. At first, I thought this would be a Slytherin stuck in Slytherin even though they don’t want to be, but then she gets sorted into the house because she wants to even though the hat wants to sort her into Gryffindor. What’s up then with the title? I guess I’ll find out. Turns out she’s a parasite sue. Joy.
Special Abilities: I almost thought the sorting hat refused to listen to what she wanted despite the fact the sorting hat does listen to students when they say they do not want to be in a certain house. Why then are so many Sues an exception to this rule? The Sue also gets away with wearing the uniform meant for the opposite gender because the writer wants her to and of course the OC wants to, but the adults become idiots regarding the character wearing the wrong uniform.
Notes: I find the paragraphs comprised of one or two sentences majorly annoying. Not only can many of the paragraphs be combined, there is some reorganization of details needed as well. I suspect either a young writer, or a writer whose first language is not English. I say young writer, as the fandoms they’re into include Girl Meets World, Harry Potter, Shake It Up!, Twilight, and Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Also, from the look of it, everything the writer has written is fem-slash. Wish fulfillment is wish fulfillment no matter what way you paint it.
Sample:
I grab my cat- kitten actually- off my shoulder where her claws still dig in. She's a tiny thing, definitely the runt of the litter just being slightly bigger than my hand, and my dad would not be pleased that I chose her out of all the more nobler pets in the wizard pet shop.
Hermione's eyes light up at seeing her. She had previously been hidden by my long hair.
"Oh, she's so cute! What's her name?" She asks jumping down to pet her.
"Astrid. It's Norse for divine strength."
I had just gotten her yesterday when I went to pick up my books. My father had given me money to get a pet, said most of the first years will have one, but he hasn't actually seen her yet. "She may be small but she can survive."
The door to our compartment opens and we both look up to find a girl standing there. She's small like me, though I'm still the tiniest first year I've seen, and she has fiery red hair that is messy as if she had been running.
She pants slightly as she looks us over. "Can I sit in here?" She asks.
"Of course. Ginny this is Alex, Alex, Ginny."
"Hi." I murmur looking down, petting my kitten as she purrs, and blushing.
There is a rattling as she struggles to pull her luggage into the compartment with us.
When she finally gets it, she sits down with a sigh and the train starts moving. Then she just stares at me.
"Wait, where's your brother? And Harry?"
Ginny looks up at the clearly older girl and opens her mouth in an O shape that makes me giggle.
"They were just behind us, they should have made it." She says looking around as if they were hiding in the small room.
Hermione bites her lip nervously and looks out the window.
"What happened?" Ginny asks and I turn to see her looking at me. She moves along the seat to sit closer and touches my cheek.
I jerk away slightly, blushing.
"I fell." I say covering the small bruise just beneath my right eye.
"Oh." She says and retracts her hand. "You don't talk much do you?"
"I don't know what to say." I admit.
Perpetrator: oooSilverWolfooo
Sue-O-Meter: Awful
Cover/Banner Art: I believe the two characters are the characters from Girl Meets World
Summary: “Alex Taylor comes from a rich pure-blood family, she lives in a manor, her father is well respected, and she has everything she needs. But she hates the cold open-spaces of her room, hates being alone in a house that can comfortably keep fifty people, and she doesn't want to go into the Slytherin House at Hogwarts. She has the most rotten luck too. OC”, “Alex Taylor is eagerly going into her second year at Hogwarts, along with her best friend Ginny Weasley. With more secrets piling up, new magical discoveries, and an escaped convicted murderer seemingly after the Boy-Who-Lived, her tensions grow. No one seems to believe her claims that Sirius Black is innocent and now she finds herself taking care of a stray dog that is just another”, “[Book 3 in Alex Taylor series] Alex Taylor's hopes of having a normal third year at Hogwarts crash and burn before it even starts when she learns of a plot that, quite literally, threatens the life of one of her close friends. But for the life of her, she can't remember what the plot is or who made it; just that it has something to do with her strange new house guest.”
Full Name: Alex “Alexis” Taylor
Species: She’s a pureblood, but also rich.
Hair: “I grin and run my hands through my short, light brown hair.”
Eyes: I kind of got fed up with this one. I can’t
Markings: She is the smallest in her year, something she declares before actually seeing everyone in her year, because she is always the smallest. She also has a small bruise under her eye she claims is from falling.
Possessions: “A small grey, almost white, feline rests on my shoulder with a death-like grip to keep from falling off.” The cat’s name is Astrid because it is Norse for “divine strength”. She has scissors on her for some strange reason. Alex has a boy’s uniform. “While at Olivander’s I had tried almost every wand when I spotted this one dusty and stuffed behind a bookshelf. He had grown pale when I picked it up and sparks flew out of it. He had tried to find me a different wand but something about it made me ask for it. He reluctantly wrapped it and sent me away with a wish of luck.” So, in other words she went through at least a hundred times the number of wands compared to Harry, among other things. It is “eleven inches, oak wood with dragon eyelash core and dipped in phoenix tears.” Suethor, dragons don’t have eyelashes, but this isn’t the standard fare for the wands he makes, but if he has a special wand for collection purposes, he’d keep it locked up and not share.
Connection to Canon: She’s in Ginny’s year, but makes friends with both Hermione and Ginny on the train. Which doesn’t make sense when - if Ginny had a friend, the journal might not have been an issue. Hermione helps her onto the train. For some reason Malfoy sticks glue in her hair, but instead of using magic she decides to cut her hair with her scissors she has. (Yes, I think the writer is going for a clumsy like Bella Swan type of character not realizing they’re not realistic at all.) She conveniently gets to cut her hair, but she also gets away with wearing the boys uniform because “heh heh, well… See, I don’t like skirts very much because they make me tripe. Plus, these are much more comfortable.” She didn’t get permission from the school to do this, but there is also the fact she’s going to be in the girl’s dorm. Nobody calls her out either. Then, she gets sorted into Slytherin and has an argument with the sorting hat, but I’m left wondering if the writer is going for “poor abused” Sue instead of “clumsy” Sue. Draco calls her cat a rat, but she doesn’t know who he is despite being a pureblood as well. She’s still not called out beyond the girls telling her the boys belong in the other dorm. Everybody continues to confuse her for a boy including Snape despite the fact they announced her as Alexis and not Alex. So, the adults look like idiots. Draco makes fun of her for hanging out with the friends of her choice and she hits him when he talks bad about Hermione. Ginny confesses she may have killed Filch’s cat in chapter five. I’m honestly getting a bit board with this one, but skipping ahead - she pretty much becomes a parasite Sue and joins everyone down in the Chamber of Secrets despite the fact there is no real logic behind why she would, but then again, Ginny’s still diving into the journal despite having a friend, so… Let’s just say if there was an explanation, I’ve not got the patience to find out if there is a logical one or not.
Origin: The writer’s writing is confusing. At first, I thought this would be a Slytherin stuck in Slytherin even though they don’t want to be, but then she gets sorted into the house because she wants to even though the hat wants to sort her into Gryffindor. What’s up then with the title? I guess I’ll find out. Turns out she’s a parasite sue. Joy.
Special Abilities: I almost thought the sorting hat refused to listen to what she wanted despite the fact the sorting hat does listen to students when they say they do not want to be in a certain house. Why then are so many Sues an exception to this rule? The Sue also gets away with wearing the uniform meant for the opposite gender because the writer wants her to and of course the OC wants to, but the adults become idiots regarding the character wearing the wrong uniform.
Notes: I find the paragraphs comprised of one or two sentences majorly annoying. Not only can many of the paragraphs be combined, there is some reorganization of details needed as well. I suspect either a young writer, or a writer whose first language is not English. I say young writer, as the fandoms they’re into include Girl Meets World, Harry Potter, Shake It Up!, Twilight, and Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Also, from the look of it, everything the writer has written is fem-slash. Wish fulfillment is wish fulfillment no matter what way you paint it.
Sample:
I grab my cat- kitten actually- off my shoulder where her claws still dig in. She's a tiny thing, definitely the runt of the litter just being slightly bigger than my hand, and my dad would not be pleased that I chose her out of all the more nobler pets in the wizard pet shop.
Hermione's eyes light up at seeing her. She had previously been hidden by my long hair.
"Oh, she's so cute! What's her name?" She asks jumping down to pet her.
"Astrid. It's Norse for divine strength."
I had just gotten her yesterday when I went to pick up my books. My father had given me money to get a pet, said most of the first years will have one, but he hasn't actually seen her yet. "She may be small but she can survive."
The door to our compartment opens and we both look up to find a girl standing there. She's small like me, though I'm still the tiniest first year I've seen, and she has fiery red hair that is messy as if she had been running.
She pants slightly as she looks us over. "Can I sit in here?" She asks.
"Of course. Ginny this is Alex, Alex, Ginny."
"Hi." I murmur looking down, petting my kitten as she purrs, and blushing.
There is a rattling as she struggles to pull her luggage into the compartment with us.
When she finally gets it, she sits down with a sigh and the train starts moving. Then she just stares at me.
"Wait, where's your brother? And Harry?"
Ginny looks up at the clearly older girl and opens her mouth in an O shape that makes me giggle.
"They were just behind us, they should have made it." She says looking around as if they were hiding in the small room.
Hermione bites her lip nervously and looks out the window.
"What happened?" Ginny asks and I turn to see her looking at me. She moves along the seat to sit closer and touches my cheek.
I jerk away slightly, blushing.
"I fell." I say covering the small bruise just beneath my right eye.
"Oh." She says and retracts her hand. "You don't talk much do you?"
"I don't know what to say." I admit.