Harry Potter Fanfiction

This story has one, but rather painful, problem: it ends unfinished after 45 chapters (221,852 words; last update Nov 15, 2012), which is quite painful.

Aside from that, the story is excellent: Harry after returning from the Heavenly King Cross station freaks out that he is The Master of Death (whatever it means), that he would be hunted forever by to-be-Dark-Lords and decides to pretend to be dead and hide in the Muggle world.

Fifteen years later he is provoked to reveal himself (and he is also hunted down by the Head of DMLE Hermione Granger), and then they are trying to work out from there. Everything resolves nicely, Hermione becomes the Minister, the whole Britain starts to unite in fighting against The Great Evil™, I was expecting Ginny finally finding out she was completely misused by the evil, all good stuff … and, that’s it. Oh, well.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11003645

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11003585

It's one of the first things I would expect from a site like this. I know that J.K. Rowlings views are very controversial to put it mildly, but:

1. The fandom/books are not the author
2. Harry Potter will become a part of the Fediverse at some point anyways - better to support it early on and shape its developing rather than having a company build a H.P. social network on top of the fediverse, which will be to our disadvantage
3. In terms of potential users, this could be huge for the threadiverse
4. We are in the Fediverse: defederation is always a possibility

Or was it just never tried before / no one wanted to yet?

I have written some time ago this prompt about Ginny’s troubles learning to live in the high-society:

I generally like “Long Live The Queen” by offsides, It is unashamedly a muggle-wank story, if you like them, a story I would consider classic in the trope. However, I have been disappointed with its (arguably rather small and generally unimportant in the overall story) romantic subplot: in the beginning, Harry and Ginny finally find an understanding (and sharing a first kiss), then the story happens, Sir Harry is suddenly buddy-buddy with the Queen, high-society flying, and what he does in the romantic arena? He dumps all his old friends (including but not limited to Ginny) and he says that he has to start to build his friends network again. I really believe that not just Bat-Bogey hex, but good ol' fashioned kick in the balls was deserved there.

I was thinking about the similar situation (Harry gets to be unbelievably important), but he doesn’t leave Ginny and they together try to navigate the new waters they found themselves in. I was thinking about mostly Ginny-centered story, where she struggles with her being originally a working class farm girl picking up eggs from their hens in the morning to private dinners with Queen and Royal Household. I was thinking for example about her becoming a friend of then (1995, just before their divorce) Lady Diana and her common sense and her ability to keep cool would help the princess to sail through better than how she in the real life did. Or something like that. And yes, of course, all small jokes about Harry and Ginny struggling with the order in which to pick forks and similar stuff.

It was two years ago, when I wrote this, and since then I have met only one story which at least distantly resembles this prompt: “The Commoner Queen” by Pilargirl. The summary describes it pretty decently: “AU. A 1000 years ago, a plague extinguished 3/4 of Britain's magical population, including 3 of the 4 founders; Godric Gryffindor remained and founded a new world, with a monarchy that would last for years to come. Now, Ginny Weasley is the Holyhead Harpies' star Chaser and a simple commoner, but Harry James Potter of Evans and Gryffindor, Prince of Wales, has his eye on her.”

It is very AU and I really don’t like much any kind of royalist!universe, because it clashes horribly with the original bourgeois spirit of the canon, but when working with this kind of prompt some kind of upper class/aristocracy is necessary. And at least it is not Hermione-is-pureblood racism whitewashing type of story.

It is nice that the length of the story is pretty reasonable (21 chapters more or less just exhaust everything which is available) and the story doesn’t waste MUCH space on nonsense.

However, the principle conflict I wanted to have: Ginny working her way out of la merde des poulets towards being an upper-class lady is well preserved. Thank you.

I came across this story, and thought it was worth linking as a cautionary tale

https://news.sky.com/story/lord-of-the-rings-sequel-must-be-destroyed-after-tolkien-estate-wins-copyright-case-against-writer-13033765

There have been a lot of questions on another site I am on about making money from Fanfiction, and after reading this story -- the guy was forced to pay $134,000 in damages and destroy all his work -- I think that we have a more or less definitive answer.

And the definitive answer is no -- it is not worth trying to make money from fanfiction :)

Taken from somewhere else, seems interesting.

A review from someone else:

"Wow wow wow, I just finished reading the Ever Upward series. What an absolutely wonderful and magical fic series.

The quick gist is Harry runs away from the Dursleys around 8 years old and is taken in by the Basilisk under Hogwarts. He spends the next years secretly exploring the castle, the forest, the lake all while making friendships with the beings he meets everywhere he goes and getting hilariously tangled up in inter-species-nation affairs. As time goes on Harry becomes a pivotal point of revolution for the rights of non-wizard beings.

First off: I cannot speak highly enough of the magical world building. More so than any author (including Canon) I have never gotten so caught up in the places that Harry travels and the creatures and beings he meets there. Especially so in his journeys deep into the forest, I can only describe it as magical. There is such an intense feeling of wonder and awe that carries out of the text. The systems and conventions and languages the author creates for each nation of beings feels fleshed-out and authentic.

The other highlight and really the core theme of the book is Harry's friendships he builds throughout the series. I don't want to spoil anything but this fic did something that few others I've read have done, which is make me care about every character in a massive cast. Each one feels unique and individual and Harry's relationship with each of them is so genuine and charming. The characters are all just absolute joys. Canon characters are written well.

The story itself is very far from canon while not feeling out of place in the HP world. There are some classic canon beats but even those get a very fresh twist. Some characters definitely act out of character but they are eased into that over time.

Take heed of the "queer themes" tag as it gets very queer prominent as time goes on, especially the final 2 books. There's nothing graphic, it makes sense in the plot, and it's much less ham-fisted than fics I've read like Lack of Lamb Sauce but be aware if that's not your cup of tea.

I think the peak of the series is somewhere in the center when Harry is just getting to go on adventures with his friends and things are less politically complicated. It's not to say that the rest drags on or that it's poorly written. It's just that the early wonder and adventure is so well done it always had me excited when the author returned to those kinds of things for a quick break later on.

Absolutely wonderful fic series. Easily Top 10 for me, probably Top 3."

Does anyone else ever feel that they have run out of ideas?

That they are just telling the same story over and over again with only the most minor of variations?

I've been stuck on the same chapter of the same story for two and a half months, trying to figure out what to write next because I've written every variation before, sometimes twice.

Should I just give up?

This is a really fun adventure story! The tales of Regulus the BAMF cursebreaker. Reg is a (legally dead) Gringotts cursebreak and works out tricky puzzles. Also later becomes a nanny for baby Harry. Exciting and generally wholesome story. A little bit of pining in the Sev/Reg relationship, but they figure it out. Updates regularly!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/41160495/chapters/103180302

One of the best characters in the first Fantastic Beasts film, Modesty Barebone, was left alone in her old childhood home, abandoned both by all adults and her brother Credence (who turned into Obscurial, so he was really not in a shape to take care for her), and never mentioned again (AFAIK).

Let me start here small story as a prompt:

She didn’t even know why she took pieces of the wand with her when she left for her old childhood home. When Credence exploded and left she was completely washed in pure magic. She thought in the first moment, that she is going to die, that the explosion is going to kill her. But nothing like that happened. Credence’s magic recognized her and protected her even when the whole building collapsed around her. Showered with magic, she saw weird fragments of stories in front of her eyes, she heard sounds she couldn’t hear, she was flying in the middle of the room for a moment, she lost consciousness in the end.

When she woke up, she was in the ruins of the building, hidden in the hole in the wall just the size for her to comfortably fit in. After the experience of the pure magic surrounding her, she was not even surprised when she found out that pieces of the wand Mary Lou broke were together again and the wand was pleasantly warm in her hand.

So, that is how it was: abandoned and lost little witch with her wand in the middle of New York with nobody knowing about her, without any food and without any money …

That’s it. I would like somebody to continue with this story. Little (eight years old) girl living on streets of New York, who has wand (well hidden, because she knew from the experience with the New Salem Philanthropic Society that many people could hurt her), but not much else. She will have to learn how to live on streets with the children gangs of New York, and perhaps later she will meet somebody who will teach her to use her magic. Something like a cross-over between HP universe and Oliver Twist.

Inspired by the linked prompt, but I have never seen anybody to pick it up and do it justice.

Frickles talks Harry Potter fanfiction, writing it, and more!

(Author of A Malignant Ruse Harry/Daphne, A Discordant Pattern, etc)

There are new chapters of this awesome story! I would never believe that Petunia fixing the story in the Marauders’ time could be such fun! Beautiful mixing of the Muggle and Magical world! Really recommened!

Frickles updated today, and I wanted to post him here since his stories are fun reads and especially 'A Malignant Ruse' happens to be very popular. Personally I like this one (The Discordant Pattern) and two others even more, despite having obsessively read that story (AMR) all in one go some time ago.

I’ve been trying to move entirely away from Reddit’s hpfanfiction, but user growth here is slow. Anyone have ideas? Do we need more posts of recs? Links on author Discords or popular Ao3 fics?

Anyone else working on promotion?

His writing is layered, exciting and detailed. I remember reading his story Shadow of Angmar back in 2015 on a Blackberry with a keyboard of all devices (though I know an author who's written chapters on there 👀). The time periods, various characters and settings had a real and obviously intentional, 'Fellowship of the Ring' feel to them.

It sits at more than two hundred thousand words, and I await an update. His crack-fic HP and the Elves Most Fabulous was pretty funny when I read it years ago now.

Link in case you haven’t read it. http://archiveofourown.org/works/33170455

He was smiling. At Tom Riddle. He was going to get murdered before the year ends, he just knows.

Alternate universe/Post-Hogwarts. warnings: mature themes, drinking, swearing. An adult Harry Potter with all his knowledge and experience is transported to his 23yo body in a universe with no war.

This fic is 10x hilarious. Harry is an underemployed government drone studying for his Masters. Well written, hilarious, totally novel story. BAMF Harry.

Any recs for something similar?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2083957

The wizarding family of Potters descends from the twelfth-century wizard Linfred of Stinchcombe, ...whose nickname, ‘the Potterer’, became corrupted in time to ‘Potter’... His reputation as a well-meaning eccentric served Linfred well, for behind closed doors he was able to continue the series of experiments that laid the foundation of the Potter family’s fortune ...as the originator of a number of remedies ...including Skele-gro and Pepperup Potion. His sales of such cures to fellow witches and wizards enabled him to leave a significant pile of gold to each of his seven children upon his death.

So that's how the Potter family initially get their wealth. Fanfiction writers often attribute it to 'Sleekeazy’s Hair Potion' which is also fact but more recent.

Linfred’s eldest son, Hardwin, married a beautiful young witch by the name of Iolanthe Peverell, who came from the village of Godric’s Hollow. She was the granddaughter of Ignotus Peverell.

Incidentally or otherwise knowing Rowling, Stinchcombe happens to lie 'west of Dursley'.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1920660

Jim Kay's illustration is a cornucopia of Diagon Alley places in a row. The details are abundant and it now features as our community's banner.

The site I extracted it from allows you to look at the details closely - and has a related challenge:

Unlock activities by finding these items. When you have found them all, you will receive a magical certificate.

A red dragon with a book and quill

A sea-faring unicorn

A witch and a Golden Snitch

A potted sunflower

An elephant and castle

A white cat on a roof

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1883631

I found a rare cool resource in the form of a comment from the old place about the various accents of the characters of Harry Potter, in the films. This is not my post or comment. Credit to Travy911

Harry (Daniel Radcliffe): Contemporary RP accent

Ron (Rupert Grint): Speaks with more of a Cockney accent in the earlier movies but transitions into a less posh sounding contemporary RP accent than Radcliffe and Watson. Grint has commented himself on how surprised he is by how Cockney he sounds in the earlier films.

Hermione (Emma Watson): Contemporary to classic RP. Watson sounds the most posh out of the trio.

Most of the cast speak with contemporary or classic RP. Many of the older actors especially would use classic RP as that would have been the go-to accent in the earlier days of British film industry. The following exceptions are below however.

From the remaining Weasleys, Ginny (Bonnie Wright) has a contemporary RP accent. Percy (Chris Rankin) has what approaches classic RP which would reflect the character's social climbing ambitions. Mark Williams, Julie Walters, James Phelps, Oliver Phelps (Arthur, Molly, Fred and George) are all from the West Midlands which has its own distinct accent(s). This can be heard very faintly in their accents with Williams probably having the strongest accent. But Brummie (Birmingham accent, Birmingham the biggest city in the West Midlands) and Black Country accents (the surrounding area) can be much stronger. Domhnall Gleeson (Bill) is Irish but adopts a sort of Cockney-ish accent in the few lines he has as Bill.

Seamus (Devon Murray) and Luna (Evanna Lynch) have Irish accents. Murray and Lynch both grew up close to Dublin but Murray's accent is closer to a working class Dublin accent. Lynch's accent is more faint, neutral sounding and difficult to place in an exact region, heard in a lot of young Irish people. Rhys Ifans (Xenophilius) is Welsh but adopts a similarly neutral Irish accent. Xenophilius and Luna's nationality is never confirmed in the books.

Brendan Gleeson (Moody) is Irish and uses his natural Dublin accent in the role. Moody's nationality is never given in the books so not sure where you got Scottish from.

Richard Harris (Dumbledore in the first two movies) uses his natural Irish accent. Harris was a classically trained actor and spent much of his adulthood in Britain so it is mostly a soft Irish accent with the tiniest English lilt. Michael Gambon (Dumbledore in the later films) has a more pronounced English accent but has an Irish lilt to certain words to honour Harris' portrayal. Gambon was born in Ireland but primarily raised in England.

Katie Leung (Cho) and Sean Biggerstaff (Oliver Wood) are both from Glasgow and have typical Glaswegian accents. Katie Leung's accent is less strong and she acknowleded her Glasgow accent is stronger when around family on James and Oliver Phelps' podcast. Cho and Oliver's nationalities are never confirmed in the books.

Maggie Smith (McGonagall) is English but adopts a Scottish accent for the role, more like an Edinburgh accent. McGonagall was always implied to be Scottish in the books and Rowling confirmed she was from Caithness which is in rural northern Scotland. The Edinburgh accent is considered the "posh" accent in Scotland so makes sense that McGonagall might speak with this accent so she's more understood by students.

Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid) is Scottish but adopts a West Country accent for role of Hagrid, which makes sense as Rowling writes his dialogue in a West Country accent.

Matthew Lewis (Neville) maintains his strong Northern Yorkshire accent in the role.

Shefali Chowdhury (Parvati) is from Birmingham and has the accent. Afshan Azad (Padma) who is from Manchester and has a Manchester accent confirmed in a YouTube video that she was asked to adopt Chowdhury's Birmingham accent for Padma as she states she's quite good at accents.

David Tennant is Scottish but like many of his famous roles has adopted a contemporary RP English accent as Barty Crouch Jr. Fiona Shaw (Petunia) is Irish but mostly has a classic RP accent as Petunia. Her Irish accent is more pronounced in the deleted Deathly Hallows scene where she acknowledges death of her sister. Shirley Henderson (Myrtle) and Kelly Macdonald (Helena Ravenclaw) are also Scottish but adopt RP English accents for their roles. Ian Hart (Quirrel) has a Liverpool accent but sounds more RP in the movie.

The international cast featured in Goblet of Fire are all cast appropriately based on their nationalities in the book and have the natural accents that go with it. Clémence de Poesy (Fleur) is French and Stanislav Ivaneski (Viktor Krum) is Bulgarian like their characters. Frances de la Tour (Madame Maxime) is English but with French ancestry and seems to adopt a decent French accent. Predrag Bjelac (Karkarofff) is Czech-Serbian. Karkaroff's nationality is never confirmed in the books but his name is Slavic in origin, which is the language group both Czech and Serbian belong too (although Slavic is large language family so someone with more knowledge could probably talk more about this).

Lee Ingleby (Stan Shunpike) has a strong Cockney accent in role, as Rowling wrote Stan's dialogue in this accent. Nick Moran (Scabior) also has a Cockney accent as Scabior.

Hopefully that covers all the accents! 😁

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More related links and information: Rowling’s Outline of Order of the Phoenix: What Does It Really Tell Us?

Behind the Scenes of a Bestseller: Rowling’s Revisions for ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’ (Pt II)

https://xkcd.com/657/ (LoTR narrative chart)

Does anyone know if there is a site, or a project for the languages of the magical world?

Not English, French, German etc, but Parseltongue, Goblin, Mermish, Dragon, Dementor, Flobberworm -- the language of the races.

This is a part of a "get out of the same, repetitive stories" thing I've been trying. Instead of saying "The goblins said 'we want to take your account' in Gobbledegook" wouldn't it be more interesting to have them talk in it?

Part of this might be related to me being the child of a language-teacher and generally interested in how languages form.

But also -- creating a language? Doesn't it sound fun?

(cross-post from that other site)

One of the best characters in the first Fantastic Beasts film, Modesty Barebone, was left alone in her old childhood home, abandoned both by all adults and her brother Credence (who turned into Obscurial, so he was really not in a shape to take care for her), and never mentioned again (AFAIK).

Let me start here small story as a prompt:

She didn’t even know why she took pieces of the wand with her when she left for her old childhood home. When Credence exploded and left she was completely washed in pure magic. She thought in the first moment, that she is going to die, that the explosion is going to kill her. But nothing like that happened. Credence’s magic recognized her and protected her even when the whole building collapsed around her. Showered with magic, she saw weird fragments of stories in front of her eyes, she heard sounds she couldn’t hear, she was flying in the middle of the room for a moment, she lost consciousness in the end.

When she woke up, she was in the ruins of the building, hidden in the hole in the wall just the size for her to comfortably fit in. After the experience of the pure magic surrounding her, she was not even surprised when she found out that pieces of the wand Mary Lou broke were together again and the wand was pleasantly warm in her hand.

So, that is how it was: abandoned and lost little witch with her wand in the middle of New York with nobody knowing about her, without any food and without any money …

That’s it. I would like somebody to continue with this story. Little (eight years old) girl living on streets of New York, who has wand (well hidden, because she knew from the experience with the New Salem Philanthropic Society that many people could hurt her), but not much else. She will have to learn how to live on streets with the children gangs of New York, and perhaps later she will meet somebody who will teach her to use her magic.

Inspired by this prompt, but I have never seen anybody to pick it up and do it justice.

With the recent announcement of the Max Harry Potter series, I was wondering, assuming there are high quality AI-generated fanfic audiobooks/movies by then. Would you be more excited about the Max Harry Potter series or the AI generated stuff?

“It’s part of our campaign targeting companies registered in the United States,” the group said in a post on Telegram, suggesting that in the first instance, it’s just part of Anonymous Sudan’s broader targeting of American companies and organisations.

“... we are against all forms of degeneracy, and the site is full of disgusting smuts and other LGBTQ+ and NSFW things,” the post added.

Good to know there are people who are keeping an eye out for our immortal souls. (/s)

In the meanwhile, AO3 is currently unavailable for the most part.

Snape dies & wakes up in his own body (maybe 5th year?) and decides to do everything better - he sets up a potions lab in his backyard, makes friends with his mom, rescues a muggle kid from some faeries and keeps some extra faeries in a cage. I think some birds follow him. AO3, incomplete. I think updated within the last 6 months. Anyone know the name?

Let's get some discussion moving =). One of my outsize joys in life is getting an update to my email inbox. What's been doing that for you recently?

A typical FloreatCastellum story: delightful, very original, well written characters. And brief.

A completely geeky author of the yet-to-be-published book “A Brief History of Red Telephone Boxes in The United Kingdom, Malta, Bermuda and Gibraltar, and their social impact in the 20th and 21st centuries” finds so far unrecognised phone book in the London Whitehall and her passion for the research breaks through all anti-Muggle repellent charms. And the story starts from there. Highly recommended!