Death Eater Takes a Holiday by Lee Lee Potter

[jane_elliot]

Yes, I know, I'm supposed to be writing, not reading.  But the Small Fandom Big Bang website just went live and there's already two stories posted and I'm just too excited to be creative.  Thus, this...

Death Eater Takes a Holiday

Everyone and their grandmother has recced this story, to me and to the rest of the world.  I've been hearing about it for

Comments

[meishali]

I give up... >_

[jane_elliot]

Heh. On Harry Potter or fanfic in general? :)

[meishali]

Harry Potter. I haven't been able to read anything in that fandom lately. :(

[jane_elliot]

Well, I just finished the Apple Tree, which was pretty good (though, and I can't believe I'm saying this, too long). Still, I do wish more people were writing second-gen -- I really enjoyed the fics you sent me before.

story in the files

[ext_118582]

Hi, may I ask you to email me the story as a file(s)? I'm gerring desperate about the issue. the email is noface11@gmail.com. Thanks is advance.

Re: story in the files

[jane_elliot]

I'm afraid that I don't have it anymore -- I deleted it after giving up on reading it. However, you can ask at snarryficfind -- that's where I got my copy.

Good luck!

[xikum]

I'm just curious where you read it? One of the sites resulted in messed-up formatting, so she also put it elsewhere. And, yes - it began to be betaed several chapters in.... I absolutely adored this fic! Although it is also true that the writing evolved with the story, from the start the ideas and situations were utterly original - hard to do in a fandom, and on a 'ship with literally tens of thousands of stories. She also had a good mix of humor, angst, stress then relief, and the complexity of multiple plotlines going on at once. Ah, well. As the saying goes, 'To each, their own.'

Um, Re: the readiness to have sex - remember, they're teen-aged males! Women are lots more complicated. At least as far as I see in RL, that bit isn't at all difficult for me to believe! ;)

[jane_elliot]

To be honest, the readiness to have sex was a very small reason why I never made it past the first chapter of the fic (though, in my experience teenagers aren't sexualized enough that they're ready and able to jump into the sack with complete strangers -- there's much teenage angsting and/or alcohol required to get to that point). The real reason that I couldn't read the fic was the relentless grammar errors that pervaded nearly every single sentence that I read before I gave up. Maybe I'm just too picky, but there isn't any premise on earth good enough for me to read a poorly-written fic. YMMV.

[xikum]

That last bit pretty much proved it to me - you were given a copy of the pre-beta fic

[jane_elliot]

I have to admit, you have more patience than I do:) But I am very happy to hear that the story improved as it went on.

[cassiopeia13]

I just finished reading it. What you stated was one of the reasons I ALMOST didn't finish. But I did, and actually enjoyed it. Yes, there are MAJOR plot holes and continuity errors and she changes tenses and POV's every line which is REALLY ANNOYING, but I really enjoyed her characterization of pretty much everyone. Snape started getting a mite sappy toward the middle and if she cut about 60-80% of the smut the story would have been much shorter. I actually stopped reading the smut scenes half way in because they were just... not needed. And the flashbacks were kind of choppy

[cassiopeia13]

Hermione honestly was a better Hermione than JKR’s Hermione who got on my nerves after book 5 until book 7 where she was okay again. You gave her a natural seeming mix of know-it-all and likability without making her seem OVERLY knowledgeable. Like she knew everything about personality as well as book knowledge which is just not how people in the real world work. Highly intelligent people, like Hermione, don’t often relate well to others, or if they do, they don’t ususlly understand everyone’s innerworkings as JKR made Hermione in the books. You managed to make her fun, loyal, loving and at the same time a person who wanted to know everything they possibly could without seeiming to BE a know it all… tough to do

[cassiopeia13]

PLOT: I loved your plot, though, the set up with the holiday was a mite strange given that you rushed through it to get Harry and Snape together, might have been more enjoyable if they'd only slept together on the last day, at least it would have been 7 days leading up to it

[jane_elliot]

I have to admit, knowing that the POV and tense change issues occur throughout the story makes me really, really glad I didn't keep reading. Did the author respond to the review?