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[pottersues]

TITLE: Ninety Seconds
PERPETRATOR: PotterIsMyPatronus
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[sapnish]

Euphrosyne and Autumn...If they're cousins, shouldn't they be named Summer and Autumn, or Euphrosyne and Aglaea? Y'know, like in canon where there's always a theme for everything...

She's of Pureblood heritage, so she can afford to do that.

Not necessarily! The Weasleys are purebloods and they are not exactly rich... and if the child of a muggle millionaire gets a letter to Hogwarts, of course he/she will have enough money to afford going from one country to another. Unless there's an apartheid and only purebloods can get transferred, which would be tremendously unfair.

[grendelmere]

Oops, think I repeated your point about the Weasleys. Teach me to post before reading the other comments.

I feel like they need one more random name in there just to round things off. Maybe a trendy unisex name, or an inexplicably ethnic one.

[sapnish]

Euphrosyne, Autumn and Cthulhu, for example? XD

One's a 1/16 veela, the other's bilingual, the third is a shapeshifting giant monster. They fight crime!

[indigoneutrino]

Could Cthulhu just be there to eat the other two, please?

[darth_gojira]

Daniel Radcliffe said he once met a girl wearing only a Harry Potter towel who stalked him. It seems that the girl has finally written her Suefic.

[grendelmere]

:D Just when I was starting to think that all Sues these days were just boring plot rehashes, we get two in a row that are batshit insane. 'Tis glorious.

[lurkeriatipsos]

Ah, yes. "The Towel Girl."

[yemi_hikari]

Jokes aside I've never liked it when fans say things like this. You need to remember that they are people.

[grendelmere]

"She's of Pureblood heritage, so she can afford to do that."

The Wesleys are Purebloods, too.

"Apparently she's one sixteenth Veela."

This is so specific that I kind of love it. Not 'part-Veela', or 'had a Veela for a great-great-grandparent'. We must have fractions.

[beacon80]

This fic is the epitome of telling, rather than showing. After their first encounter, we immediately jump forward three months and have to be told what their relationship is.

And Harry is a Veela... why? It doesn't make any sense for his muggle-born mother to be a Veela (and apparently a full Veela, so... y'know, she's not allowed to have a wand or anything). It doesn't add anything to the story, except some Unfortunate Implications that Harry Potter/Daniel Radcliffe needs to be prettier to be truly dateworthy.

And that ninety seconds thing is absolutely ridiculous.

His hair was like a halo of onyx thorns
My first thought was: Wow, male-pattern baldness hits the Potters early.

[beacon80]

Incidentally, I left a review pointing out the flaw with making Lily a veela. The Suethor's response was along the lines of "That's a good point, but... magic!" While this is better than "It's fanfic so it doesn't matter!", it's not by much.

[yemi_hikari]

Actually... it is just that argument put into a pretty package. There are still rules and Hermione even notes that in the books.

[lurkeriatipsos]

My first thought was "does he have the stigmata, too" because that would take "God-mode Sue" beyond ridiculous and into sacrilarious territory.*

[beacon80]

Oh, and it's Autumn who tied Harry up, not Ginny. I had to read through it twice to be sure. There's also no explanation on why she had to do that.

[little_masaouki]

As far as I can tell, she did it so she could trap the two together. Because apparently despite the fact that it takes 90 seconds to tell if you like somebody, you can't act on it unless somebody else forces your hand.

[beacon80]

That's kind of my point. Getting someone to admit the feelings you think he has for your cousin is a poor excuse for abduction and imprisonment. Harry, for his part, should be a lot more ticked off.

[pottersues]

Apparently that wasn't the only thing I missed.