During all these years, I've read numerous HP fanfics, most of which I've forgotten and frankly don't care about any more. But there're these three fics that I really really want to see to the end.
Fire & Ice
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4774376/1/Fire-Ice
The author is probably the most eloquent fanfiction writer I've ever known. The prose, the dialogues, the cultural references (from Shakespeare to the Bible to pop culture and more), the rhetoric and the humour: there's so much in her prose. None of her cultural references feel forced and I'm especially pleased to find several Monty Python ones. Most Monty Python fans simply have good taste, you know ;)
Her breadth of writing is amazing, from philosophising and monologues to gripping and believable conversations (she's especially good at the latter); from dark stuff to humour. It's not that she's the best writer in any of them, but few writers can be good at all of them – these things are antithetic.
The characterisations also deserve praise. It's one of the few fics that have a lot of OCs but still draw me in. The HP characters are mostly in character, from Dumbledore to Ginny to Tom to Harry to Draco to Slughorn. Her Ginny is amazing: truly how I imagine Ginny should be: bright and strong, but most importantly, funny (which many fanficition writers failed to portray). And she actually managed to write Tom in first person, and make his musings and dark thoughts sound in character, believable, and poetic, even.
She's probably too fond of metaphor and rhetoric, and can be overly descriptive sometimes. But as someone who can simply appreciate language for the sake of language, I've got nothing to complain about.
Plot wise: I've always wanted to read a Tom/Ginny fanfic where she travels back time and actually kills him (or has him killed). I have a feeling that the new version of this fic is heading to that direction.
Fire & Ice
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4774376/1/Fire-Ice
The author is probably the most eloquent fanfiction writer I've ever known. The prose, the dialogues, the cultural references (from Shakespeare to the Bible to pop culture and more), the rhetoric and the humour: there's so much in her prose. None of her cultural references feel forced and I'm especially pleased to find several Monty Python ones. Most Monty Python fans simply have good taste, you know ;)
Her breadth of writing is amazing, from philosophising and monologues to gripping and believable conversations (she's especially good at the latter); from dark stuff to humour. It's not that she's the best writer in any of them, but few writers can be good at all of them – these things are antithetic.
The characterisations also deserve praise. It's one of the few fics that have a lot of OCs but still draw me in. The HP characters are mostly in character, from Dumbledore to Ginny to Tom to Harry to Draco to Slughorn. Her Ginny is amazing: truly how I imagine Ginny should be: bright and strong, but most importantly, funny (which many fanficition writers failed to portray). And she actually managed to write Tom in first person, and make his musings and dark thoughts sound in character, believable, and poetic, even.
She's probably too fond of metaphor and rhetoric, and can be overly descriptive sometimes. But as someone who can simply appreciate language for the sake of language, I've got nothing to complain about.
Plot wise: I've always wanted to read a Tom/Ginny fanfic where she travels back time and actually kills him (or has him killed). I have a feeling that the new version of this fic is heading to that direction.
