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0016: The Alicorn - Arianna Griffith

Apr 20, 2003 21:58

An owl-Sue. No, really.

TITLE: The Alicorn
PERPETRATOR: Alicorn

SUE-O-METER: (how bad is it?)

WRITING:

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y - hogwarts years (non-specific), pc - mature for age, pc - foreign sue, pt - cursed, bh - white hair, sw-o - sparklypoos, rating - awful, be - golden eyes, b - speshul eyes, nts - speshul name, sw-o - quanonreip, be - green eyes, c - made up, rom - none, related to dumbledore, c - animals from real life (full/part), be - silver eyes, ntm - mystical animal titltes, related to voldemort, bh - black hair, e - canadian, ct - wereanimal/shapeshifter (full)

Comments 15

enochiansigils April 20 2003, 21:29:11 UTC

She just killed baby Jesus!

fire_bad April 21 2003, 02:31:03 UTC

Must....mock! That story sounds like shite! Well, is shite.

I'm not sure how all of this works, as in if you go out and find the MS HP stories, or if people can report them to you. If you're interested, here is a link to one of the WORST HP stories I've ever, with the most blantant MS, and it's only one chapter long so far. Bleh!
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1293835

Please please please post it up!

pottersues April 21 2003, 06:34:25 UTC

Been there. Posted that. Threw up.

Hah hah (mocks savagely) fire_bad May 21 2003, 12:51:23 UTC

You realize that changing SHIT to SHITe does not change the meaning at all right?
In fact It's rather juvenille.
And what's this about Baby Jesus?

Re: Hah hah (mocks savagely) fire_bad May 22 2003, 01:13:38 UTC

Well, I didn't use 'shit' incorrectly - I intentionally used it, and it's pronounced shite (sh-eye-t) --> the way a lot of British people say it. It's a form of 'shit' that is in no way supposed to change the meaning, therefore it's not juvenille.

The whole 'baby jesus' thing is from The Simpsons. Get out more...

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Alicorn's also a word... limyaael April 22 2003, 06:22:42 UTC

...for the horn of a unicorn. I haven't seen it used very often that way, but it is there.

I actually wish it was more common. I think it's a useful word. And then maybe people would STOP USING IT AS THEY DO IN THIS STORY AAARGH!

Ahh, now I know where all the idiots flock ... anonymous May 21 2003, 12:44:16 UTC

I wonder who is writing this, sonsidering the title ( ... )

Re: Ahh, now I know where all the idiots flock ... zarla June 10 2003, 11:03:36 UTC

Harry makes mistakes. He ISN'T perfect. He even looks rather normal. He has flaws and acts like a normal human being.
Mary Sue's, however, do not.
And also, da stories are not only about Harry. He has friends and other characters that share da story with him and at times are more important than HE is.
Mary Sue's do not. They ARE da story.
Harry Potter has a plot.
Mary Sue's, on da whole, do not.

Re: Ahh, now I know where all the idiots flock ... anonymous February 22 2008, 19:58:44 UTC

Thank you, thank you. I googled "Harry Potter is a Mary Sue" and your post here is the only one that popped up. I agree completely. Harry Potter *is* a Mary Sue.

And to add,

He comes from an incredibly awful childhood but appears to be psychologically untouched by it

He is incredibly famous and admired but at first doesn't know it, then is too wonderful of a guy to get conceited about it

He can save the day when experts around him are absolutely flummoxed (It never occurred to any of the professors at Hogwarts that the creature striking students dead or paralyzed was a basilisk?).

He is repeatedly misunderstood, even by his closest friends. Criticisms of him are never actually valid.

And yet... it's a damn fun series of stories.

anonymous November 15 2012, 20:26:01 UTC

He's not a Mary-Sue, he's a GARY-STU.

Psh. Get your stuff right. :P

Thread 5

Question About Ms. Figg anonymous February 25 2006, 22:13:18 UTC

Don't we only find out Ms. Figg is a squib there to protect Harry in Book Five and didn't book five come out in June 2003? So how is this already written if this was posted in April of 2003?

Oh, yeah, and this is bad. Very very bad.

Re: Question About Ms. Figg tobiasfliesfree December 28 2009, 15:20:17 UTC

Mrs. Figg was namechecked near the end of Goblet of Fire, when Harry was in the Hospital Wing. At the time, fan speculation was rampant that the Arabella Figg mentioned there without any fanfare was actually the Mrs. Figg who had looked after Harry in book one (which, indeed, turned out to be the case). I remember at least one fic where she taught at Hogwarts Harry's fifth year.