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Umbrus Shade, The Incredibly Annoyed Ravenclaw [Harry Potter/SI]

Shade, why?

  • For the glory of the Hypno-Toad!

    Votes: 840 28.5%

  • For the glory of Satan, of course!

    Votes: 402 13.6%

  • For the glory of Shade, of course!

    Votes: 639 21.7%

  • For the glory of feeling like a hero yet!

    Votes: 188 6.4%

  • For the glory of-why are you doing this, I don't want to get on the Shade Train *again*!

    Votes: 260 8.8%

  • Avada Kedavra, Muse-chan! Avada Kedavra!

    Votes: 618 21.0%
  • Total voters
    2,947
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What shade did in the ending seemed like what a superhero would do, but here it seems out of place, Harry Potter is a story of kids growing up to adults and the adventures attached with it, thus the ending is very disappointing
 
InterstellarHobo said:
I rather disagree. The ending was "Shade goes free, Voldemort vanquished, big party, Dumbledore foists literally all the responsibilities on Shade." That nicely wrapped up all the important plot threads, there was no real place for the story to go from there. The payoff was trouncing Voldemort and thwarting the death eaters. We can imagine the Happily Ever After for ourselves.
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But Voldemort wasn't vanquished, because Shade isn't Harry Potter, and because of the Prophecy only Harry Potter can actually vanquish Voldemort.
 
Vaermina said:
But Voldemort wasn't vanquished, because Shade isn't Harry Potter, and because of the Prophecy only Harry Potter can actually vanquish Voldemort.
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Only they can kill each other while either of them are alive, that is true.

However, once one of them is dead, the other is free game which was kind of the point in the epilogue of Shade only acting after Harry dies in the Alternative Ending.

Srihari1234 said:
if you just analyse the first 5 Movies/Chapter, the review score could be over 8+/10, and it was really interesting and captivating, but as time went on, one could notice that in the 6 Movie/Chapter, the quality declined somewhat, but it was still good and interesting enough
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Eh, it was pretty much like canon to me. The first four years is pretty awesome, whereas year five and beyond was the start of the downward spiral into the crap chute. There was some hope when he started interacting more with his friends, but it turned out to be a false positive when they ended up unreliable and he had to take things into his own hands again.
 
Scope said:
Eh, it was pretty much like canon to me. The first four years is pretty awesome, whereas year five and beyond was the start of the downward spiral into the crap chute. There was some hope when he started interacting more with his friends, but it turned out to be a false positive when they ended up unreliable and he had to take things into his own hands again.
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Which is why it was so good, it felt like how it would occur in the canon, from chapter 5 we could see faults, but it was the chapter 6 and the ending that ruined the story for me
 
Let's all appreciate the fact that the story got completed, thanks shade

Is there any other good male of Harry potter?
 
It was fantastic till the end. The continuity of charecter traits (eye twinkle) and growth was perfect... I would request more underdog fics (boy on the team) where the main charecter struggles to gain ground and only ever ends up a master of one because it requires creativity within a restriction but honestly I dont care what you write next, I always find your stories interesting.
 
I was genuinely surprised that Shade actually had an epilogue. I full expected him to die or disappear after the final fight, because I though he lived his life like that - knowing that he's in a fictional world, sacrificing himself, not having any long term plans after protecting Harry and defeating all evil and injustice. I was actually cheering when he was facing Voldemort, hoping he'd drown in his arrogance and hubris soon enough.

The ending was very much like Shade. Leaving everything open, 'make your own conclusions' that explains nothing and just leaves some people frustrated. Though it's very hard to please everyone with endings.

I already said earlier that I like and dislike Shade's fics. I though this was weak at start, solid at middle, good at most middle books and turned into boring slog near the end, causing me to abandon the fic. There weren't many chapters to the end, though, and I'm kinda glad I finished this now.

Shade will keep being Shade. Doing his own thing, delighting and infuriating people with his style of writing and self-inserts.
 
Wow, this was great! Truly an entertaining story from start to finish. This is actually the second fic of yours I've been around for the first chapter of and read all the way to the end, the first being the Dark Souls/Danmachi crossover.

I'm glad this didn't devolve Into angst, I had my fill of that stuff after I read through Bond Breaker a couple months ago. You write pleasant fluff.

I'm excited for what you do next. Good luck Shade! :D
 
I don't really understand how the horcrux thing would work. I mean, it doesn't really explain his metaknowledge and he doesn't seem to retain the memories of his supposed maker which is the whole point of a horcrux.
 
Vaermina said:
I don't think there was one, Shade just expected Slughorn to be a certain way and when Slughorn wasn't Shade just wasn't capable of dealing with it so defaulted to "Slughorn doesn't like me".
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Megan also seemed to notice. Plus, it doesn't really make sense for Slughorn not to be interested, given that by that point he was already triwizard champion and known as Dumbledore's apprentice.
 
I dare you to do a Bleach SI, because really why not?

That said, it was a decent story.

The Froggy Ninja said:
Megan also seemed to notice. Plus, it doesn't really make sense for Slughorn not to be interested, given that by that point he was already triwizard champion and known as Dumbledore's apprentice.
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Yeah that was weird. Is one thing if he feared the guy was another Tom Riddle but honesty what networking Shade was gonna do at his party that he couldn't already do by having an Order of Merlin and the fame he had?

Slughorn was kind of a dick honesty and a bad host.

Edit: Also the tiara ending is just Shade trolling us. You honesty think the MC didn't just use their magic knifes to kill all the soul jars they could?
 
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@shadenight123 I started reading this two days ago. I am halfway through and I've laughed at least once a chapter. This is a ridiculously amusing story. It is almost as amusing as Russel Peter's standup comedy show tour last night.
 
Sebazu said:
So, what was Slughorn's deal with Shade?
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I think he was afraid of Shade being another Tom Riddle.

Vaermina said:
I don't think there was one, Shade just expected Slughorn to be a certain way and when Slughorn wasn't Shade just wasn't capable of dealing with it so defaulted to "Slughorn doesn't like me".
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No, there was something. He was purposely interrupting Shade when he was trying to socialize if I'm remembering correctly. Probably thought he was another Tom Riddle and wanted to curtail his social influence.
 
So, as a Ravenclaw with an Occamy patronus, I heartily approve of this protagonist :V. More seriously, I absolutely had a blast reading this story, and it got me perfectly in the mood to watch Crimes of Grindewald. I really enjoyed Megan Mandy and Wayne, and while they were only truly fleshed out as more than potion girl thrill seeker and chocolate Hufflepuff later on, that later characterization was worth waiting for. Great story :)
 
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