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authorMatěj Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu>2020-06-12 00:59:39 +0200
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@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ Cepl’s Introduction to fem!Harrys
There are two types of fem!Harry stories:
-1. Where Harry (with different name, of course) is naturally
+1. Where Harry (with a different name, of course) is naturally
a girl, always was and always will be. Usually, I guess, the
- motivation is that the author is a woman and she feels
+ motivation is that the author is a woman, and she feels
uncomfortable writing from the male point of view (I know
something about that, somehow, without me wanting it, most of
my stories have a female protagonist, and it is really hard).
@@ -32,14 +32,17 @@ There are two types of fem!Harry stories:
turned to a girl (or he was born as a girl and then his sex
was magically hidden and now he/she turns back into his
natural state). There are many wrong reasons why somebody
- could write such story. First of all, and I am afraid it
- applies to most of them, the author wanted to write a lemon
- and femslash was more juicy for (I guess, usually) him. One
- unashamedly so is IMHO `11396276`_ and I will leave it at
- that. The second is that they are Snape/Draco fans and they
- didn’t want to write a slash story, so they turned Harry into
- a girl to suite them better to their planned pairing. One
- classical example would be `Snape's Daughter by Tribi`_ with
+ could write such a story. First, and I am afraid it applies to
+ most of them, the author wanted to write a lemon and femslash
+ was juicier for (I guess, usually) him. One unashamedly so is
+ IMHO `11396276`_ and I will leave it at that. Or there is
+ non-smutty, just fun, variant in `Pranking The Tournament by
+ Gardevoir687`_.
+
+ The second is that they are Snape/Draco fans and they didn’t
+ want to write a slash story, so they turned Harry into a girl
+ to suit them better to their planned pairing. One classical
+ example would be `Snape's Daughter by Tribi`_ with the
unbelievably horrible choice of name for the main protagonist
(I won’t even write it here). I am not a big fan of either
Snape or Draco, so when the story turned to be Drarry, I quit,
@@ -49,26 +52,29 @@ There are two types of fem!Harry stories:
it suffers from the deluge of smut (including some of the most
obnoxious tropes like magical-hormone-makes-you-horny), but if
you skip that, there is a rather good story hidden beneath it.
- Alternative to that “something weird happened” is `A Fair Life
- by Rtnwriter`_, where it is Harry (the canonical male one)’s
- death in the Forbidden Forest in the end of DH and returning
- back as a girl on the eve of the announcement of champions for
- the Triwizard tournament and it is so far rather decently
- written Hermione/Harry femslash (not even too smutty). Similar
- idea with different execution is `A Different Perspective by
- StellaStarMagic`_, where the canonical Harry jumps after
- Sirius into the Veil in the Death Chamber of the Department of
- Mysteries, but he is kicked back by rather Pratchettish Death
- into being a twin-sister of more or less canonical Harry
- Potter just before the letters from Hogwarts are delivered to
- them. She is sorted as a Hufflepuff, and it develops into
- so-far interesting timeline repair story. Usually the sticky
- part of gender bender stories is treatment of unease of the
- former Harry with him being a female suddenly with all bits in
- wrong places. One example of rather anxious treatment of the
- situation is `To Reach Without by inwardtransience`_ which
- turns into rather interesting pairing of Harry/Susan Bones,
- but again further the development, more weird it becomes.
+
+ An alternative to that “something weird happened” is `A Fair
+ Life by Rtnwriter`_, where it is Harry (the canonical male
+ one)’s death in the Forbidden Forest at the end of DH and
+ returning as a girl on the eve of the announcement of
+ champions for the Triwizard tournament and it is so far rather
+ decently written Hermione/Harry femslash (not even too
+ smutty). Similar idea with different execution is `A Different
+ Perspective by StellaStarMagic`_, where the canonical Harry
+ jumps after Sirius into the Veil in the Death Chamber of the
+ Department of Mysteries, but he is kicked back by rather
+ Pratchettish Death into being a twin-sister of more or less
+ canonical Harry Potter just before the letters from Hogwarts
+ are delivered to them. She is sorted as a Hufflepuff, and it
+ develops into so-far interesting timeline repair story.
+
+ Usually, the sticky part of gender bender stories is the
+ treatment of unease of the former Harry with him being
+ a female suddenly with all bits in wrong places. One example
+ of rather anxious treatment of the situation is `To Reach
+ Without by inwardtransience`_ which turns into the rather
+ interesting pairing of Harry/Susan Bones, but again further
+ the development, weirder it becomes.
----
@@ -87,6 +93,9 @@ There are two types of fem!Harry stories:
.. _`11396276`:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11396276/1/
+.. _`Pranking The Tournament by Gardevoir687`:
+ https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13132217
+
.. _`Snape's Daughter by Tribi`:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7618752/1/