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anthimaeria put together a post with the Best Awful One-Star Amazon Reviews of HP, that just has to be seen to be believed.
Excerpts:

• You might like Harry Potter if you believe in ghosts, goblins, magic, and bag guys that kill people with magic.
  
• If you don't enjoy reading children's literature, then you probably will not enjoy this book and should not be beguiled by the inaccurate label.
  
• Why doesn't Harry carry a gun, probably because he lacks the upper body strength to even fire a bb gun.

And! Thanks, twistedm, for giving me the link to the fic I was talking about, that I had thought started out so awful but steadily wormed its way into my heart. I'll re-read it once I'm done A Song For Arbonne ;)

Lush Life
Author:Dillys Wellbeloved
Rating: R
Pairing: Draco/Harry
Recipient.: Written for Tithonia Incledon
Summary: Draco Malfoy has just had his fortieth birthday, is currently editor of a soft porn gay men's magazine published in the U.S., is the author of a no-holds-barred tell all of his life as a former rentboy, and is perfectly happy. Uh, not really perfectly happy, because we wouldn't have much of a story, now would we. Enter one Harry Potter.