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Bring On The Darkness
18 ReviewsRevised 1-26-06 - What if there was more to the 'power he knows not' than we knew? What if Harry's life had been a test? How would the Wizarding World have passed?
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Bring On The Darkness
(#) biblios 2005-05-10 02:01:50 PM
sweet and very raw, I liked the whole life as a test thing and so love a crushed dumbledore ;-) just wish it could be followed up but it is complete and done, thank you
lol bibliosAuthor's response
Thank you! I had thought about doing a small one-shot follow up but I find that I don't really think it needs one. That can change in the future of course. -
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(#) Gabbywolf 2005-05-10 05:32:04 PM
This is a great story with an very orginal plot. I love the way you showed how AD and Snape betrayed every one. There are some stories that you just want to shove the Versatiem down his throat. Thank you for doing that here. -
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(#) Loki-L 2005-05-14 01:44:27 PM
I have normally nothing against dark or out of character portrayals of heroes like Harry Potter, but this one was just bad. It was dark and OOC for the sake of being dark and OOC. There was no real point to this story except everyone acting mean to Harry without any believable explanation and Harry going mad to deal out vengance. -
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(#) Kordolin 2005-06-03 08:42:56 PM
Angsty and sad but good none the less. Keep up the good work!
-Kordolin -
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(#) Eri 2005-07-07 06:10:25 PM
While I found the story interesting, there were several things within the story that, if you take the first five books to be Harry's past before the betrayal and incarceration at Hogwarts, do not redeem his actions or the happy ending. I can comprehend a Harry who, given what Snape & Dumbledore were in this story, became a weapon of vengeance and judgment; however, his actions against many of the wizards like Hermione and Ron seemed unnaturally and sadistically cruel.
Had Ron done more than simply accuse Harry of murdering the other children when all the evidence pointed to him, it might have been believable that Harry should attack him so cruelly. However, I do not think their relationship in the first five books justified the viciousness of the attack without something further happening between them. As it wasn't the real Harry who was accused by Ron, the real Harry had no reason to believe that Ron had had anything but the attack to warrant his accusations. As the story provides no evidence of a confrontation after the attack or that Harry had any way to know how Ron felt, it seems excessive for him to murder Ron AND Hermione the way he did. .
In any case, if Sirius Black can survive so many years in Azkaban without going evil; I think Harry Potter had an even better chance of coming out of it with his basic moral composition intact. The story reads as though he has become irredeemably evil, not that he is out for what is lawful and just. He taunts people, mocks them, belittles them, tortures and practices petty revenge … if this were a D&D game, I’d say his alignment had gone chaotic evil. It would have made more sense that he had simply gone mad, and, in his madness discovered truth.
The end certainly didn’t fit the story, as it is written; however I do think that the idea behind the story, the writing as it stands and the characterizations are good. It seems to me that there are two stories here, not one; and they don’t exactly match. One is of an insane Harry Potter listening to the vengeful ghost of his dead godfather; and the other is of a man who was born to be tested and to test the wizarding world. Mixing the two doesn’t work well, but I think I’d read both if you were to write them.. -
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(#) Eri 2005-07-07 06:15:27 PM
Correction to below review: Hermione was cursed, not murdered. -
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(#) Eri 2005-07-07 06:16:00 PM
Correction to below review: Hermione was cursed, not murdered. -
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(#) Rei 2006-01-20 04:51:32 PM
Yay! How appetizing! Well done, well done. I assume that you are angry with how the wizarding world has treated the poor boy? I'm one of those people. Though, I must say, you have some negativity in there. >:) I loved it. Took out all my frustrations just reading it, and I was only left with satisfaction. A lot of people are angry, I know, but I haven't seen anyone take their anger out until now. However, I am just assuming that you were angry. People write really evil things when they're angry. :) -
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(#) papamidnite 2006-03-31 11:23:38 PM
Great story. People are so fickle-minded. Everyone got what they deserved.