My new favorite fanfic until the next one.

[dira]

(Icon irrelevant except that Amy is even awesomer than this fic and tomorrow is Saturday which = DOCTORDAY. AGAIN. AND EVERY WEEK FOR MANY WEEKS.)

Ahem!

The awesome fic is Harry Potter fic which I totally assumed, upon reading the title, was Harry Potter fic where Harry is raised by Vulcans, and you know what? I was not entirely wrong. This really is, I think, a lot like the story of what would happen if ten-year-old Spock found out he was, incidentally, also the Boy Who Lived. Or if Jim Kirk had been raised by Sarek and Winona Amanda after losing his parents and then found out he was the Boy Who Lived.

Uh. This was meant to be a fic rec, not a horrible-plot-bunny generator. MOVING ALONG.

This story also, not coincidentally, reminds me a bit of--was it synecdochic's?--story of what SGA might have been like if they had just turned the stupid-generator off. And God knows the world needs more stories of that variety, so here:

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

...Yes, it's on ff.net, and yes, it's a WIP, and you know what, I don't care. But for my own fic-following convenience, I have attempted to turn the RSS feed option into a DW feed: hpmethods_feed. That should update when the fic updates. The link it serves up goes to the author's profile, where notes for each new chapter will appear, so I think that makes sense.

(The last time I attempted to create a feed of a blog it wound up bringing me every comment posted to that blog and I had to open a service request and let denise sort me out, so now I'm really skittish about feed-creating. But this one seems okay, so far.)

Comments

[ellen_fremedon]

...I haven't had any interest in reading HP since I finished DH.

Until now.

Damn you.

[ellen_fremedon]

This really is, I think, a lot like the story of what would happen if ten-year-old Spock found out he was, incidentally, also the Boy Who Lived. Or if Jim Kirk had been raised by Sarek and Winona after losing his parents and then found out he was the Boy Who Lived.

Or Rodney McKay as the Boy Who Lived.

[dira]

:D

I mean. Sorry?

And he IS very Rodney-ish, which led to me contemplating how John Sheppard would have turned out as the Boy Who Lived, which makes me feel like John Sheppard actually is sort of "Harry grew up in America and never got a letter so he joined the military instead."

[ellen_fremedon]

Didn't isis write that story?

[dira]

Ahahaha, oh man, did she? I suppose it's got to be out there somewhere. If only on account of the hair.

[ellen_fremedon]

Yup-- Clarke's Law. John isn't actually Harry, but he is a wizard who never got his letter.

[dira]

Oh, God, GENIUS. I love this.

[cesy]

That's brilliant. Thanks for the link.

[clodia_risa]

This is the best HP fanfic I have ever read. And there's real science!

[dira]

Right? AND it's educational! ♥

[ladyvyola]

Okay, I see everybody's Spock, Jim, and Rodney.

And raise you a Lex Luthor.

eta: Early Smallville vintage, natch.

[dira]

Also a distinct possibility! My Lex Luthor exposure is entirely via fanfic, but that doesn't exactly lessen the resemblance....

[ladyvyola]

Oh, yes. He's definitely a fanfic!Lex, with a soupçon of fanfic!Tim Drake (Robin III). Which are two great tastes that taste great together, IMO.

[ladyvyola]

You couldn't change history. But you could get it right to start with. Do something differently the first time around.

Aaaaaaand there we find direct descent from Miles Vorkosigan.

This story is fascinating.

[dira]

Ahahaha oh MILES. Yes. ♥

[(Anonymous)]

I have seldom been so flattered in my mortal existence.

-- Less Wrong

[intemerata]

That story is so good, omg, thank you so much for taking the time to recommend it! Am on chapter three now, and it seems to get better and better by the paragraph. Heeee!

[dira]

Yay! OMG such things to come--I thought Chapter Five was the single greatest thing I had ever read IN MY LIFE until I got to Chapter Seven and changed my mind. :)

[kass]

thank you for the hp story feed!

[dira]

And--I should have said in the post!--thank you for reccing it the other day, I would never have found it otherwise. :)

[grey_bard]

Okay, now I must see this. The stupidity generator fic? (eager)

[mmeg]

The Stupidity Generator fic

[grey_bard]

AWESOME! You win one internet!

[petra]

Thank you so much for this rec. It's good enough to make me wonder what in the heck I did with my ff.net login that's almost certainly dead so I can comment to the author.

Re: Chapter Five -- Amazing. And I was sure that was going to be the apex--but no!

[dira]

CHAPTER SEVEN, OKAY. I think that was where I lost the power of speech. ♥

[litheavocado]

Oh my. Thank you for the rec! Chapter five was a pure shot of GLEE straight into the vein. A part of me is still surprised that I'm enjoying a Harry/Hermione story (not that it's pairing focused at all) and that I'm finding Harry the most interesting character in the fic (when usually it's Draco or Snape).

Oh man. I love stories that subvert canon in unexpected ways. And the author avoids the pitfalls of Super Gifted characters, too! I like that Empathy for Others is something Harry has to consciously work on and it's not, as an issue, lost in the scientific glee.

And good ravenclaw AUs are so rare. *_*

[litheavocado]

Also, when reading the first chapter I was slightly disappointed when it became er obvious that this wasn't actually a real ST/HP crossover with Spock being, by some twist of fate, The Boy Who Lived. Like, for a few seconds.

[dira]

Right? I'm adoring it. I don't even care about the ship at this point--they're eleven! Whatever!

And, oh man, for a little while I was dead seriously thrilled at the idea of it being a HUFFLEPUFF AU. OH HARRY.

[grammarwoman]

A very happy thank you for this link! This is some amazing stuff. *grin*

[dira]

Isn't it delightful? I was driven to sign up on ff.net so I could get chapter updates (as the DW feed alas seems not to work as I would have hoped).