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It's not the competence or incompetence of the enemies that is in question. The Death Eaters virtually never cast verbally, save for the Unforgivables. And even then, it's usually as much for dramatic effect as anything else. None of the adult wizards in the series use verbal incantations with...

It's been awhile but... Pet Peeve of the Day: Protagonist centered morality reality warping. A large part of what makes a good story is having a character face actually difficult decisions and be faced with less than ideal choices that conflict with their base morality/precepts and how they...

Pet Peeve of the Day: Nominally intelligent characters who are pants on head retarded. This is especially bad in Gamer fics where the character gets an actual "Int" and "Wis" score, inevitably gets it power leveled a point orders of magnitude beyond an "average" person or his starting point...

Pet Peeve of the Day: The use of the pistol as the primary weapon. It never fails; in every movie, in every TV show, the main character will always go for the pistol. The only use for a pistol in actual combat is to get a rifle. So no you fucking idiots, you don't trade your SMG, your carbine...

Pet Peeve of the Day: Main characters that never succeed or get clean wins. While characters always having things go their way and getting lucky is crap, just as bad are the stories where the main characters never really get things to go their way. Every arc must have something go wrong, every...

Gold to muggle money also assumes that there isn't actually anything else going on. I mean what value does paper have to wizards or goblins? Forging muggle cash would be trivial for a wizard. It could easily be that the Ministry or Hogwarts has a program set up to effectively loan muggle borns...

Pet Peeve of the Day: Authors who can't spell a characters name or even misspell it consistently. Four different spellings within two paragraphs is far too many. Once is a typo, four times is just an author who doesn't even bother to proofread at all.

Pet Peeve of the Day: SI stories that make everyone but the SI a fucking idiot. Yes, an SI has a great many advantages when it comes to information and knowledge (especially in something like Harry Potter, where it is primarily a mystery and so knowing the mystery in advance makes it really...

Some Harry Potter Pet Peeves. Goblins are always good/misunderstood/better than wizards at everything. This despite the fact that canon goblins were a bloodthirsty warrior species that has lost virtually every war against wizards that they have fought and Gringotts is nothing but a bank. Oh...

Well that tends to be the crap crossover fics. "Ah yes, we will take supposedly canon Harry/Naruto from some time (usually post canon) and throw them into this other setting.... Oh, and Naruto is now a redhead, he has no chakra, and the kyuubi isn't around." Or the ever classic "Oh, and he is...

I would go with there being two types of INO stories, one of which is fine and one of which is crap. The fine version is when the circumstances of the character are changed such that you expect a vastly different outcome. Would Harry Potter be the same if raised by the Addams Family? Or...

Hmm, another Pet Peeve of mine. Overuse of the term "Mary Sue". As TVTropes says, the term is essentially worthless. The biggest problems that I have found with most Self Inserts are: 1) The SI "fangirling" over the main characters and trying to force themselves into the MC group for no better...

Because we all come across things that just annoy the hell out of us. Pet Peeve of the Day: Inspired by Mass and Magic: adult Harry Potter wizards that are supposed to be skilled/competent speaking incantations to use their magic. Silent Casting is 6th year material and virtually the only time...