Hogwarts Too Exposed Chapter 23

[szaleniec1000]

Hogwarts Exposed has trouble with pacing, to put it mildly. In the first fic, Chapter 23 had so little going on that the author himself forgot all about it. At least there we had Harry and Hermione's wedding still impending, so we knew that the story was heading for a conclusion of sorts. The end of the last chapter of Too Exposed, by contrast,

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[sith_droideka]

And that's another "subplot" out of the way. I seriously forgot this thing was almost over.

And you know, every time I think I've seen the most ridiculous or cardboard villains, I see Hogwarts Exposed and get shown something worse. I mean, for example (taking Sword Art Online as my example since I'm going through its fanfiction right now):

Kayaba Akihiko is the "main" villain of the first half of the animé/first two books. He forgot why he even trapped 10,000 people in a death game! And yet... he's somehow a better villain than Balla Buster and her husband

[szaleniec1000]

The story doesn't even explore why Filch would do such a thing, only presenting it for the sake of "LOL look how wrong Buster is".

[taekarado]

THE WORLD WILL HAVE BUT ONE HOPE
AND THAT IS TWO CUBED TO EIGHT
...wha?

THE WORLD WILL HAVE BUT ONE HOPE
AND THAT IS TWO CUBED TO EIGHT

...thats... dumb. thats a stupid way of putting it. im sorry, thats just awful.

lemme guess: jaime, alex, amanda, harry, ron, hermione, ginny and luna are the eight? i dunno if this ever got a resolution, but im probably right. neil and subtlety have never crossed paths.

[sith_droideka]

No Weasleys allowed. They're filthy.

But I think it was discontinued before it got to that point. You can probably guess that Emily, Caitlin, Kim, and Claudia would've been included. And Amanda drops off the face of the earth at the end of this fanfic.

[taekarado]

but-but-but in chapter 1 of hogwarts exposed it states that "Dumbledore had referred to [Harry, Hermione and Ron] more than once as the Heart, the Mind and the Soul." with this and "THE HEART AND SOUL AND MIND WILL ADD THEIR WEIGHT", its not unreasonable to assume that the original trio would have been involved.

and yes, i am ashamed that i had to give HE a hit in order to confirm this.

[zelda_queen]

"'but at the same time, children now physically mature sooner.'

Which on the face of it is true, but it's also something that gets trotted out a lot by paedophiles and ephebophiles trying to justify themselves. Hogwarts Exposed being what it is, I'm reluctant to extend the benefit of the doubt here."

I would like to point out that during the run-ins with HG-131, this was exactly the excuse he would use to explain why it wasn't perverted that twelve and thirteen-year-olds were having sex/watching sex/talking about explicit sexual matters with their parents, etc. He tried to prove this with an anecdote (which he stupidly copied on das_sporking, while posting anonymously), about how in first grade, he knew a girl who had B-cups. Make of all that what you will.

[sith_droideka]

Eh, I still don't think HG 131 was Neil, because when I was arguing with him he went off on a tangent about how he hated everything about America, whereas Neil included the Americans' school (in his infinite creativity) and is an obvious American.

Although, who knows? Maybe he really hated the whole nation because we don't like pedophiles here (not that anyone does, but you know how these kind of people are... "Japan's age of consent is 13! See, totally allowed!"*).

*While the baseline requirement for age of consent in Japan is 13, it's actually higher in the prefectures, since many of them make the AoC 18. Pedophile and pedophile apologists: -∞ - 1.

[zelda_queen]

I suspect HG-131 was American, or at least lived in America. During our discussions, at one point I read a PM from him as soon as he sent it. In that PM, he said it was three in the morning for him, which was the time it was for me. He also seemed rather well-versed in the ages of legality for New York, suggesting he lived there.

I suspect he either went on his anti-American rants either for the reason you proposed, or as a way to distract us from the pedophilia and age of consent arguments. You know, stirring up shit over a very different issue, with the hope of distracting us with that. He tried it earlier, when he compared calling HE "sick" to supporting segregation.

[szaleniec1000]

His IP address (the static IP he used for both TVTropes edits and anon flaming on LJ, like nobody would notice) resolved to somewhere in Florida. I doubt it was a proxy, because trying to hide your identity by using the same proxy on anon and namespace kind of defeats the purpose, and the time zones would match if that's where he was. I think New York was a red herring, especially as he was wrong about it: the age of consent there is 17, not 16.

[sickbritkid2]

The end of the last chapter of Too Exposed, by contrast, leaves us with an overwhelming feeling that there's nowhere to go from here.No kidding. Whenever I read these pointless arcs and the like, I keep feeling like Neil was trying, and failing miserably, to replicate JKR's method of having each book possess their own self-contained plot of sorts while at the same time leaving it apparent that there was an overarching story tying it all together

[sickbritkid2]

"I'm just window-shopping for something I'll never have. You're very pretty."

Ugh...

Excuse me for a few minutes, mate. Be right back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMiyitcE164&t=2m24s