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-Dudley has a witch as a daughter
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-
-:date: 2018-10-26T10:28:12
-:category: faith
-:tags: HarryPotter, review, blogComment
-
-(review of `Must Have Changed A Lot`_)
-
-This certainly works as a one-shot, but as many (most?) fanfics
-it is necessary to distinguish between exposition and story.
-There are zillion fanfics with at least interesting exposition
-(OK, so not only "what if Harry was a girl/has a sister"), but
-with none story. And story is the only thing which matters for
-anything longer than one chapter.
-
-Especially "what if Dudley has a witch" (surprisingly, almost
-never a wizard) tend to get completely empty after the initial
-fun scene of the panic coming over Dudley from the receipt of the
-Hogwarts letter and almost inevitable frantic call (owl post) to
-Harry for help. And then what?
-
-I know really only about two Dudley-has-a-witch stories which
-have a good story line: `Dursley's daughter`_/`Dursley's
-Dilemma`_ on Wattpad (unfortunately, still unfinished), and
-incredibly good (and depressive and paranoid) `series of stories
-about Holly Wycliff on AO3`_ (yes, for reasons I have never
-understood, all Dursleys for security reasons changed both their
-first names and the last name is Wycliff). But for both of these,
-the initial exposition of what-if-Dudley-has-a-witch is just
-start to an interesting story: the first one of just a plain
-coming-of-age and troubles-of-teenager story (and I really like
-“Stalky & Co.” so there is nothing wrong with that; on the top of
-it, Esther Dursley is a Hufflepuff and there are so few good
-Hufflepuff stories, if I, as a Ravenclaw, may say so). The second
-goes to completely different, highly original and good stuff
-(she is an empath and there is a lot of weird and dark story
-about that). However, the point is, that for both them their
-exposition is just that. The exposition.
-
-Now, let's see what the story brings. … Oh well, last updated
-nine years ago. Oh well.
-
-.. _`Must Have Changed A Lot`:
- https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4923697/
-
-.. _`Dursley's daughter`:
- https://www.wattpad.com/story/12122491-dursley's-daughter-a-harry-potter-next-generation
-
-.. _`Dursley's Dilemma`:
- https://www.wattpad.com/192985075-dursley%27s-dilemma-sequel-to-dursley%27s-daughter-1
-
-.. _`series of stories about Holly Wycliff on AO3`:
- https://archiveofourown.org/series/62351