I'm tired of people doing this, which is why I'm going to openly mock them:
"Dobby, Patsy and Kiki -no- HELP!" Harry bellowed toward the cottage, toward the people moving there "HELP!"
He did not know or care wether they were wizards or muggles, friends or foes; all that he cared about was that three dark stains were spreading across Dobby's, Patsy's and Kiki's fronts and that they had stretched out their thin arms to Harry with looks of supplication. Harry caught them and laid them sideways on the cool grass.
"Dobby, Patsy and Kiki, no, don't die, don't die-"
All of the elves's eyes found him, and all of their lips trembled with the effort to form words.
"Harry...Potter..."
And then with three little shudders the elves became quite still, and their eyes were nothing more than great glossy orbs, sprinkled with light from the stars they could not see.
Wow, they combined two terrible fic cliches: insertions of Harry's sister who just tags along, and the flood of interchangeable self-insertions It's still horribly boring
"I did feel sorry for Mrs. Figg but I couldn't stand another year in her cabbage smelling house"
Holy crap, Dudley's birthday outings are long. A whole year?
Does anyone remember an old episode of Torchwood involving an alien which survived by inserting itself into people's memories? I think Sues like this might be the same. They survive by latching on to an existing story. Then they just sit there, existing.
They're Parasite Sues - they attach themselves to Harry and try to gain attention by detracting from all his experiences and achievements through their own involvement in them. Completely boring and unoriginal. There are some Sues I love because I find them so bad it's funny, but this kind I can't stand.
Ugh, pick up the pace. While I usually don't mind fics that take their time (my own abandoned fic was 5 chapters in and Harry was still at Number Four), those fics are ideally taking their time to show me something I haven't seen before. If nothing's going to change until they get to school, you could skim over things a bit.
That's what I do with my stories that are similar to the original plot line. I skim over the stuff that is the same. Then again, one of the reasons I do it is because I'm against plagiarism like I am and I understand not skimming over it constitutes plagiarism.
This is why I hate these "insert character into storyline" fics-they make an unnecessary character than is entirely pointless. It's boring, it's not original at all, and it's just pointless.
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"Dobby, Patsy and Kiki -no- HELP!" Harry bellowed toward the cottage, toward the people moving there "HELP!"
He did not know or care wether they were wizards or muggles, friends or foes; all that he cared about was that three dark stains were spreading across Dobby's, Patsy's and Kiki's fronts and that they had stretched out their thin arms to Harry with looks of supplication. Harry caught them and laid them sideways on the cool grass.
"Dobby, Patsy and Kiki, no, don't die, don't die-"
All of the elves's eyes found him, and all of their lips trembled with the effort to form words.
"Harry...Potter..."
And then with three little shudders the elves became quite still, and their eyes were nothing more than great glossy orbs, sprinkled with light from the stars they could not see.
Dammit, I'm such a genius.
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It's still horribly boring
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Holy crap, Dudley's birthday outings are long. A whole year?
Does anyone remember an old episode of Torchwood involving an alien which survived by inserting itself into people's memories? I think Sues like this might be the same. They survive by latching on to an existing story. Then they just sit there, existing.
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If nothing's going to change until they get to school, you could skim over things a bit.
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