YMMV / Partially Kissed Hero

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Many readers think that Harry gets corrupted by the bit of Voldemort's soul that gets freed by the Dementor's Kiss.
  • The commenters on Das Sporking had a field day when Luna is able to age Blinky the basilisk from infancy to adulthood in two seconds just by placing a hand on its head and saying, “Believe.” Considering her prior actions, they promptly read this as her being so purely evil that Dark magic exuded from her very being to give a Dark creature a power-up. (A later chapter suggests it was just the unpredictability of fairy magic just happening to give them a beneficial result, and that she couldn't do it again at will.)
• Arc Fatigue: The author interrupts his own narrative to dive into a series of side plots and digressions that have absolutely nothing to do with the central story, including time travel, the Space Race, and a fight with vampires. Several of the story's reviewers used the phrase “gone off the rails,” while other reviewers claimed the author has "lost sight of the original plot". Most events in the story are never relevant or referenced again, meaning that Arc Fatigue can set in very rapidly as the reader starts to see the story as an unrelated series of vignettes.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • One chapter is devoted to the history of Beauxbatons (or at least Ornstead's take on its history). Well, it claims to be about Beauxbatons, though the first half of the chapter is devoted to explaining that the Greco-Roman gods were actually wizards. Beauxbatons is never referenced again, with the author’s subsequent claims that it would be relevant to the story being complete lies, although Ornstead's take on Classical Mythology is following up on a passage from earlier (which is overshadowed by the horrific torture that the Dursleys are subjected to), and it comes up again near the end (which is to say, where the story is Left Hanging).
  • Luna's mother, who was thought to be dead, shows up to help make the in-universe "Boy-Who-Lived" books real, but appears in only a single scene, doesn't interact with her daughter or the alleged heroes in any appreciable way nor explain how she survived, and all later story beats use Alice in Wonderland for this role instead.
• Canon Defilement: Probably intentional, given the header to Chapter 1:
  “Every so often the entire Harry Potter universe offends me so deeply that I just have to react by folding, spindling and mutilating it.”
• Crosses the Line Twice: Ornstead loads Dumbledore with such an over-the-top rap sheet and mustache-twirling level of villainy (even before it becomes literal) that it's pretty much impossible to take seriously.
  "That was tragic in a way the deaths of every student under his care would NOT be!"
• Designated Hero:
  • Harry, whose Protagonist-Centered Morality is so extreme that it would most likely make Stalin terrified.
  • Luna is also awful, because she encourages Harry to continue when even he realizes he has gone too far. By Chapter 91, no less than Voldemort thinks her conduct should be rewarded, and somehow the author still denies that she is even morally grey, let alone black.
  • Rounding it off, once Hermione orchestrates the plot to turn innocent witches into Harry's sex slaves, she’s as bad as the above two.
  • Trelawney, after being turned into a dryad, when she goes back in time. She thinks of killing a baby just because he will be evil in the future, and nukes Moscow. Undermining the human civilization is something she does on purpose, and the reader is supposed to root for her. Downplayed however, as she is brainwashed by the three monsters above!
  • Queen Alice. She has her childish fun at the expense of actual humans, thinks nuclear weapons are mere trifles, and abuses the power she has over Muggles. She is nothing more than a childish dictator, such as Harry really wants to become. By Chapter 99, she starts advocating for the forced resettlement of entire populations of people (and the reestablishment of medieval feudalism) as a remedy for disasters that she caused.
  • In general, the protagonists torture and kill anyone who stands in their way, want to end human civilization and will do so through Reality Warping and nuclear weapons, have as a primary goal to gather more and more power, and their leader has a harem of sex slaves. In any other work of fiction, they would be portrayed as irremediably evil.
• Designated Villain:
  • Dumbledore, whose list of crimes is so long as to be laughable. Snape may not have quite as big a rap sheet, but his own Offscreen Villainy and Undying Loyalty to Dumbledore causes the same reaction.
  • Surprisingly, Draco is one! Even though he is really vilified by the narrative, he is actually much more sympathetic than his canonical counterpart.
  • The supposedly Dirty Cop that tries to stop Hermione when her fairy powers turn a city park into an Eldritch Location. We are only informed that he is corrupt, and his actions instead read as one who wants to prevent anybody from getting hurt.
  • The Muslims. According to this story, they deserve to be nuked to oblivion because of their religion.
  • The goblins, who, despite being turned into a hodgepodge of the worst antisemitic stereotypes, are not directly shown to commit any of the evil acts the narrative claims they do constantly, and wind up the targets of a genocidal war once Voldemort takes over the Ministry, which the narrative blames on them closing down Gringotts, glossing over that they only do so because Harry had effortlessly robbed them blind without even realizing it. The goblins have a legitimate grievance against the wizards, and did nothing wrong here.
• Fan Nickname: For a given value of "fan", at least:
  • Das Sporking nicknamed this version of Harry "Harrymort", Hermione "Herminion", or "Herbomination" after she corrupts a Muggle park just by being there, and Luna is "Not!Luna", or "Luna Nogood", or "Lunatrix". Trelawney becomes Treelawney, and Queen Alice is called Queen Malice. To the point that they are never called their actual names after Harry absorbs Voldemort's soul, and the girls join up with him. On the villain side, Dumbledore becomes "Darth Dumbledore", or "Dastardore", or "Darth Dumb", as a remark about his competence (or lack thereof).
  • They sometimes call the story itself “Harry Potter and the Dunning-Kruger Effect”, in reference to all the times the author isn’t nearly as smart as he thinks he is.
  • In another MST, Harry becomes "Harcrux", while Dumbledore is called "Dumdumdore".
  • The author himself gets called either "Perverse Loinhard" or "Leomort" by Das_Sporking.
• Fridge Brilliance: Of course Harry turns evil— the whole story gets kicked off by him absorbing a piece of Voldemort’s soul. This would be much more interesting if the author appeared to realize it, though.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Eventually Harry gets a harem, which is strongly hinted to eventually expand to 100 members, though only a handful of these receive any characterization or scene presence and the way he gets the harem is unethical in the extreme. Much later, a harem this absurdly large will be the main draw of a certain manga, which manages to keep the cast sympathetic throughout because the whole thing is played off as absurd and unbelievable, and the harem members are never objectified.
• Humor Dissonance: Luna and Alice are frequently presented as lovable lunatics, playing by the rules of Wonderland while the rest of reality tries to keep up. This is how they're presented. They're portrayed as written, on the other hand, as a complete sociopath (in Luna's case) and a psychotic megalomaniac who doesn't care if reality snaps like a Twix bar under her feet (in Alice's case). Lionheart never realizes this and keeps writing them as if their actions are simple whimsy.
• Karmic Overkill:
  • Casting a castration hex is apparently punishable by ten years forced pregnancy, along with a permanent sex change if the offender were not female at the time he cast it. Our “heroes” endorse this.
  • Even with the Dursleys' abuse being far worse than in canon, most readers wouldn't say they deserved the truly horrific Fate Worse than Death they got, no matter how much the story tries to claim it was their just deserts.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Sybill Trelawney could be treated with some sympathy due to her brainwashing, until she brainwashes the Russians to nuke their own capital and then castrates a child with a waffle iron.
  • The Death Eaters cross it by raping Muggle girls as routine.
• Narm:
  • The demonization of Dumbledore is so extreme that he becomes a mustache-twirling villain... literally. He’s also unable to tell the difference between literal shit and a Michelangelo sculpture and genuinely thinks Colonel Sanders is a Dark Lord.
  • Luna's increasingly inexplicable relations to various fantasy characters. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz were pushing it, but by the time Ornstead brings in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, it's pretty much impossible to take seriously. And that's before a throwaway line revealing that Batman exists in this universe. And later, after the biggest war crime of his heroes, he introduces Barney the Dinosaur like nothing happened.
• Narm Charm: Dumbledore, by sheer coincidence and for a number of convoluted and unrelated reasons, taking on the exact resemblance of Snidely Whiplash is just so gloriously idiotic that it crosses the line into being utterly hilarious.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Chapter 9. Snape tries Legilimency on Harry, only for Harry to rebound the effects at him, making him claw out his own eyes, breaking his mind, and finally exploding his head, all while he’s screaming in complete agony the whole time. This is in front of a class full of third year students. This is only topped by what he does in a later chapter: stick his own head in a bucket of acid to scare the class!
  • Which is nothing compared to what the Dursleys and Draco get. Even though they are not good people, you can't help but feel genuinely sorry for them. Nobody deserves to be raped for ten years straight or be forced to eat and be eaten by their relatives forever.
  • Entire parts of Earth get obliterated by nuclear fire and the author doesn't shy away from showing the results.
• Rooting for the Empire: The immense length of the story and the horribly abusive and later outright evil actions of the central characters makes it easy to hope that one of their enemies will knock them down to size. Of course, by the time one is a certain depth in, it is more than clear this won't happen:
  • Perhaps due to receiving criticism on his Showy Invincible Hero habits, the author eventually introduced Moody. While he's practically the Anti-Moody where canon is concerned, he is the first character to actually get the drop on the heroes and he mortally wounds Bellatrix, her only surviving due to Deus ex Machina and an Ass Pull.
  • Soon after this, Harry and company go on a culling in the Forbidden Forest to remove all of the Dark creatures from it. Their march through the wood is fairly easy and unchallenged, until they meet Aragog's coven, a thousands-strong horde of Acromantulas. The heroes are nearly overwhelmed in a sea of giant spiders and are nearly killed, until Harry drops a Deus ex Machina bomb on them. It's even more impressive as Harry was riding a basilisk, their mortal enemy that they are stated to be so terrified of that they won't even speak of it. And even more impressive as the basilisk, despite doing the most damage to the spiders until Harry has to burn the forest, is one of the casualties.
  • Chapter 79 is widely considered one of the best chapters for this reason. Dumbledore finally finds out that Harry is his new enemy, and actually manages to defeat him and his army in a fight, even outsmarting them initially. It takes an even bigger Deus ex Machina for Harry to manage to even escape and kill him (the latter isn't a really big setback to Dumbledore), but he was already exposed and got enough damage. He even considers it a defeat.
  • As mentioned in Das_Sporking, if the Death Eaters did not rape anyone in their spare time, they would be more likable than Harry's forces.
• Serial Numbers Filed Off: Lionheart "adapted" (that is to say, lifted word-for-word with only names changed) large chunks of text from various chapters of the Fablehaven books.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: A common criticism of the story. Of the three main factions in play, Dumbledore is hideously, disgustingly evil and Lionheart spells it out repeatedly at length (and does the same for his more important cronies, especially Snape); Harry doesn't have the same length of a rap sheet, but his (and Luna's, and to a certain extent Hermione's) obsessive pursuit of power by any means (to the point of willingly employing Bellatrix Lestrange) and fondness for brutally excessive Karmic Overkill and paying evil unto evil makes it hard to see him as remotely heroic; and Voldemort is, well, Voldemort. Add in the fact that Lionheart's take on wizarding Britain has it as a horribly corrupt Crapsack World, that Harry is associated with The Fair Folk who have no problem with initiating an apocalyptic nuclear war or turning a hundred women into brainwashed dryads for Harry's harem, and there's just very little reason left to root for any of these people or care about the outcome of their conflict.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The concept is fascinating and the story actually seems to play it out, but then you realize the author doesn’t intend for Harry to be Drunk on the Dark Side, and he really is supposed to be the hero, and his morality really is supposed to be white as the driven snow.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic:
  • Draco Malfoy is probably supposed to be seen as an obnoxious, dickish Smug Snake who brings the bad things that happen to him on himself, but he goes through so much horrible shit that the reader can't help but feel sorry for him. It certainly doesn't help that being a snobbish, bigoted bully is very tame compared to the kind of stuff the "heroes" get up to.
  • Dumbledore is supposed to be repulsively evil, but ends up being so pathetic he doesn't make readers hate him, but instead pity him or laugh at him. He unintentionally comes off as more of an underdog than Harry, and the punishment he goes through is too far for any crime he might have committed, even if it had actually been shown on-page.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic:
  • Harry, who's supposed to be as purely good as his canonical self, but with a boost in power and the knowledge of Voldemort on Halloween 1981. Between the main page and the YMMV items, it's pretty clear how it comes off in practice.
  • By extension, Hermione and Luna, who go along with all of Harry's actions. Luna is the more extreme of the two, since she tells Harry that he did the right thing by condemning the Dursleys to eternal torture.
  • Alice, Luna's grandmother, is supposed to have the mentality of an innocent child. In practice, she is a more conniving psychopath than her granddaughter, and causes a nuclear war in order to seize absolute power.
• The Woobie: A spell cast upon Snape causes him to horribly torture Draco Malfoy in the Slytherin common room, in front of, among others, first year students. The timing is such that Memory Charms can’t be used on any of the kids. Regardless of the trauma, somehow Draco lives, and apparently Jared Ornstead thinks it’s just deserts for him to be turned into a girl, and forced into a breeding program in which he has to bear twenty-four children to Crabbe and Goyle. They get killed before this happens, but that doesn't void the contract, instead defaulting to him having to marry their fathers, who think that beating their wives ensures conception, and is forced to allow the other purebloods to torture and abuse him repeatedly because thanks to Harry's machinations he has no title, no money, no last name and no family. Thus, it’s understandable why he is more than willing to become a fanatical killer like Bellatrix to escape the breeding contracts so that he can’t be raped or abused anymore. If that were not enough, Narcissa says at one point that, “All three of them [Lucius, Rabastan and Rodolphus] were far more interested in Draco than they ever were in [her] or Bellatrix.”

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