Okay, it's a time travel story, so cliches are expected and present. The writing, however, is very good, and the story is indeed humorous, which makes it at the very least a guilty pleasure. And there are some non-cliched elements sprinkled in the story (magic scar, a Harry who takes advantage of some Lockhartian concepts-- to name two).

I'm giving it 4 stars because it's a good story in a genre that's become cliched yet is still entertaining.

 

I agree with knothead; this is a good guilty-pleasure story. I haven't read the whole thing, but it's holding my interest and the humor is just odd enough to keep it interesting. It's hard to tell sometimes if the author is parodying time travel stories or writing a serious story in the genre. Could be both, I guess.

4/5

 

It was certainly entertaining at the beginning, but after 'xx'th time when Harry used the scar, as a reason for his knowledge I just lost interest.

Good for a few laughs if someone is in the mood, but it isn't anything special.

3/5

 

I dont really understand why this story got 4 stars out of 5.
I guess 3 stars , is possible. But 4 is just too much.
There are plenty of inconsistencies throughout the fic that glare out at the reader.
For example, this is the first one I spotted:

Why the hell is Harry using Sectumsempra, a spell that shouldn't be public, not to mention how can the others use it, without ever hearing or reading about this spell before. I mean it takes them most of a class period to get a standard first year spell. How can they master it on their first try, by just looking at Harry do the spell. After this Snape comes to the room, and doesent mention a thing about his personal spell.

Here he tells Tonks, that Sirius is his godfather.

Here he tells Tonks(who believes him) that the dog is his godfather, while she already knows that it is Sirius who is the godfather.
This is all I could read. Aakunen is right in saying that the stupid aliby that the scar told him that Quirrell is going to steal the philisopher stone(which he shouldnt know about), or that the scar told him that dobby(who Harry claims has never herd of before) will steal his mail, or the scar told him what will happen in the next year, gets old very fast.
If I am reading a rewrite of cannon, the fic has to be above average for me to even consider it reading, which it is not. There are just so many things that could have been done a lot better.
2/5 from me.

 

The inconsistencies are intentional since "Oh God Not Again!" is a humor story.

 

Some of them aren't inconsistencies at all. Canon!Harry managed Sectumsempra on his first try for example. And, to me, it's perfectly logical that Snape didn't hear what Harry said when he wasn't in the room.

 

Just because it is humor, you cant ignore the fact that letting Tonks forget about Harry`s godfather is an error.
Cannon Snape, didn't need to hear Harry say the spell to know what spell he used.
Besides Cannon Harry read about the spell before probably in detail.
And yeah, the fic seems to get better later on.
Which would raise my rating to 3.

 

It's essentially taking just enough refuge in audacity by playing with the idea of the best lies being truths.

And that's what makes it incredibly funny.

 

Also, it is said in the fic that the spell had different, much weaker, effect on the troll.

As for Tonks, I think it's safe to assume she didn't believe him in either of situations.

 

Eh... Started off pretty decent. As it got further along, It couldn't seem to keep my attention. Everything seems kind of... forced?

I gave up reading it after harry got up on his soap box during the dueling club scene. Also, it really doesn't have the "it" factor to get my waiting on an update or even to turn to the next chapter.

That said, it did have a couple of places that cause me to lol, and I finally found a story where Harry actually uses his "image" to turn a profit...

2.5/5

 

Since the rating went down to 3 stars, the story's moved to the Recycling Bin (it's recent enough that it doesn't need a trip back into FR).

 

I see three stars.

 

Sorry. I should give a real review:

I don't like the tone of the story. The humor is alright whenever the author isn't congratulating herself on her own cleverness.

It also annoys me whenever Draco is treated as a character as importance and the author makes it sound that it is crucial Harry make a friend out of him. That's a personal issue though, so I set it aside.

Even so, the motive for Harry trying to keep the possibility of a friendship with Draco is skewed. At the handshake scene, Harry only wants to avoid a petty schoolboy rivalry. I'm assuming it is after Deathly Hallows, because the list of deaths at the opening paragraphs match canon. Remus, Tonks, Crabbe et al, the deaths correspond.

And yet, it doesn't even occur to him that Draco ended up masterminding Dumbledore's death.

It isn't handled humorously - it's pure fangirlism.

There's the killer irony: this is nearly undiluted canon rehashed, yet the author is sloppy in paying attention to it.

 

Frankly, I'm agreeing with Andromalius here. I'm also going to add that lifting dialogue straight from canon sounded rather... stilted to me. It didn't fit with the author's writing style, and subsequently, it hurt the flow of the story. 2.5/5 for me, and nothing higher.

And btw, happy birthday Tinn!

 

Is it possible for normal members to view votes in threads?

 

On a scale of 10, ratings of 2.5 and 3.5 would become 5 and 7 respectively. I don't think it's silly at all. And people have to round anyway, so no reason to begrudge them their decimals.