Published March 8, 2011
Meh. I didn't like this.
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Oh boy. This deserves a crit ticket. Ill do it in sections. Ill do section one on saturday.
I'm going to say right now that I've never liked fanfiction. So get ready for a harsh review.
I'm also going to say that I have no idea why you would color the text pink. It's distracting and makes the whole thing nearly impossible to read.
One of the major rules of fanfiction is to capture not only the plot and characters of the original story, but to emulate the writing style as well. That's where your paramount flaw lies. You don't have the British style of writing - it seems like you took a shot at it, but airballed the thing. To properly hook Rowling's technique, I'd recommend rereading some of her books - the seventh, especially, since that's the one nearest in consecutiveness to the piece you're writing - and going to write this immediately after you've finished, so the style is still fresh in your mind.
Moving onto a smaller criticism, yet still important if you're planning on continuing with this, in Harry Potter seven, the Malfoys actually did rethink their ways. They betrayed Voldemort. This fact coincides with a large portion of this - indeed, the actual focus, the point - of this piece. Draco realized how malicious he had been toward the threesome (meaning Harry, Ron, and Hermione). Lucius ceased to care for Voldemort's cause when he discovered how precarious a position it put his son in. Narcissa - why else would she go through the trouble of saving Harry's life? All this in mind, one could say with certainty that Draco would not call Hermione a Mudblood, and that Lucius would not devise such a disgusting plan for redemption. If someone reading this just out of the blue forgot everything regarding the Malfoys at the end of Deathly Hollows, maybe this would work. But the goal of fanfiction is to build on what's there, not to conveniently ignore a piece of key information. This is most annoying simply because this is almost directly after the events that occurred nearing the end of Harry Potter seven, and so the newfound beliefs of the Malfoys would still be fresh in their minds. Even if it were later, and the ideas had at varying levels decayed, this would still not work. There was nothing unfriendly about Harry's brief encounter with the older Draco in the nineteen years later section, was there?
Thirdly, I couldn't stand the plot of this, or where it's going. It is completely cliched and not intriguing in the slightest. This is how I see it. You're taking an awesome story, focusing in on one of the secondary characters, and trying to make her the hero. Already it sounds extremely odd, since in Rowling's story, Harry was the main character and hero. After that, you thrust her into this petty little scene that I'm guessing is supposed to be a bad one. But it doesn't sound bad at all, because Hermione seems to be onto it the whole time. So this is doomed to be an annoying, almost cheerful goose chase or adventure or whatever. You start it off right off the bat with a dumb little crisis scene, and shooting right into the crisis in the way you did will never turn out to be anything more than a Scooby Doo episode.
Sorry if this was harsh. Believe me, it'll help you, both with this and future stories. I've always toyed with the idea of a Harry Potter sequel, but the way you illustrated it simply did not intrigue me. For now, I'd just leave this story be. If you want to start a different Harry Potter fanfic, I welcome you. But don't tie more onto a string that's already snapped. 'Kay? Okay. Well, keep writing. Again, I'm sorry about being harsh.
-Kafka
Hi! First off, the thing that made me not really want to read was the color of the text. It's really bright and makes it hard to read the words. Maybe changing it to a darker color will help.
Sorry if I sounded harsh ^^' I hope I helped!