Ethnic minorities from those regions are lambasted for being "less-evolved barbarians". Africa and the Middle East, and the religious (especially Muslims) are the main targets, with our protagonist even taking the time to visit several mosques in Europe to cast nasty blood curses on the worshippers. Unfortunately this gets rather more egregious later in the story, with several rather long sections of chapters suddenly dedicated to shitting on the non-white majority parts of the world. It was a little odd, but no worse than Terry Goodkind preaching his weird individualistic philosophy in the Sword of Truth series. There was the odd rant about religion here and there from the main character, but in a very self aware fashion his mistresses would in character roll their eyes and say "there goes Harry again, ranting about religion". Going into this story, I had no idea about who the author was, nor had I read any of their previous works. The forays into the failing of the statue of secrecy and the impacts subsequently, as well as elements of the civilisation management all had some strong moments. Things get quite a bit better when the central conflict of Harry vs Voldemort resumes, especially because it's not a total curb stomp one way or the other. Mainly, this was a time for the author to consolidate his MC as the big powerful power wank chad for the later parts of the story. The worldbuilding had interesting elements at times, but largely felt tedious and I found myself wishing for it to be over sooner rather than later. The meandering travels of Harry and his companions added a lot of bloat to the story, without much pay off. Unfortunately the middle of this fic is where the problems arise. In many ways, it was like seeing a favorite old snack from your childhood in the supermarket and indulgently enjoying the nostalgia. The porn didn't take long to arrive, with Harry chain fucking his way through older women, and while not fantastic, wasn't terribly problematic. It was technically proficient with acceptable spelling and grammar - although not in itself a pleasure to read like my favs in the fandom. Cliches were present in spades, but there were some interesting elements to the magic with the rituals and what not. It was obvious from the beginning that it was going to be indy!Harry and not push the envelope of literature very far, so I turned my brain off and went along for the ride. I came here to make a review thread, but lo and behold we already have 18 pages of one. 5 days later of pretty much straight reading and I have completed the entire thing. A competent MC, 800k words, and - let me just fan myself - complete. Having just finished a run of 5 night shifts, and with a week off work, imagine my excitement when I see this. Imagine my surprise then when the other day some new poster to the forums makes one of those generic banal threads, "Looking for Cool Harry" or some such - and he's linked several fics of which this is one. Ladies and Gentlemen, it's been a while since my last foray into Harry Potter fanfiction because I honestly thought I had read everything good that meets my general interest criteria.
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