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    Tower of the Barad-dûr. Or we should expect another hundred
    chapters of this boring Goblin rebellion, and :math:`\$DEITY`
    have mercy on our souls! The author threatens us with another
-   thirty chapters, but I don’t feel like he can make it is in so
-   few without the story being incredibly rushed.
+   thirty chapters, but I don’t feel like he can make it in so
+   few of them without the story being incredibly rushed.
 
 2. Complete loss of the human element in the story. It is a very
    similar problem to `Divided and Entwined by Starfox5`_. Not
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+Historical Harry Potter stories
+###############################
+
+:date: 2021-05-30T07:56:58
+:category: faith
+:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit
+
+(my comments on the reddit thread “`Fics like Starnlicht?`_” by
+BallZealousideal2109_)
+
+It is strange how little fanfiction authors investigated the
+whole area of the historical stories, a life of the magical
+community outside (and before) the canonical storyline. Aside
+from replants of the normal fanon stories to the past (“Prince
+Draco cannot keep his eyes from the lowly peasant girl Hermione
+…”), there are some which I have already mentioned in `the post
+about the religion-less universe of Harry Potter`_, so I won’t be
+writing about them here in detail, but this is everything I found
+which is in my opinion worthy of mentioning (any additions to
+this list will be eagerly considered):
+
+* “`Makers of Fine Wands`_” — the first Ollivander was a student
+  at The Plato’s Academy, and he experiences very wild adventures
+  while in Athens. Unfortunately, the story was abandoned just
+  when it became interesting.
+
+* “`Makers of Fine Wands since 382 BC`_” This one is completed
+  and it is one of the best fanfiction stories out there. It
+  happens in that fourth century BC, and it is a story about the
+  discovery of magical wands and many adventures around that. The
+  story is crazily too long, and (like I think 90 % of all
+  fanfiction stories) it could use at least cutting to half if
+  not more, but otherwise, I liked it managed to keep even in
+  those ancient times the same bourgeois middle-class Diagon
+  Alley feeling of the story as the Rowling’s books. Highly
+  recommended.
+
+* “Bloodstone_“ This is a very exceptional story. Northumbrian,
+  its author, is usually quite focused on the time area in the
+  Nineteen Years after the Battle of Hogwarts, and this is the
+  only one that gets out of this time frame. And getting out it
+  does, it happens in the fifth century in the context of the
+  falling Roman Empire. During the story, the two main heroines
+  of the story lose absolutely everything and find their new life
+  in the Celtic (?) Brynaich (later Bernicia, later Northumbria).
+  The only thing they save from the ruins of their previous life
+  is a small piece of jewellery with a beautiful (and very magical)
+  heliotrope or a bloodstone. Apparently, this story was meant to
+  be as a foundational backstory for “`James and Me`_”, but that
+  story was never finished enough to include the link to it fully
+  (the stone is just mentioned without any explanation).
+
+* “`Fires of Time by GHL`_” (not available any more on the
+  original site, I have locally downloaded EPub) and “Splinters_”
+  are two related stories where Harry and Ginny are somehow
+  half-transposed into Britain in time of the Ancient Rome.
+  Somehow, the story didn’t mesh with me well (I am sure, it
+  could find its fans), so I have never finished reading them.
+
+* “`The Friar's Calling`_” I wrote about it in the post about
+  religion.
+
+* “`The Mistake`_” medieval monk
+
+* “`With the Devil`_” it is surprising how few stories are
+  located in the era of the Salem Witch Trials, while it is
+  obviously very fertile land for the HP universe. This is one of
+  them, in the theme of “if Professor McGonagall thought that her
+  deliveries to Muggleborn children are complicated …” (together
+  with chapter 75 of “`The Accidental Animagus`_”). Nicely done,
+  from the point of view of the child.
+
+* “`The Western Front`_” very short, too soon abandoned story,
+  cross-over between HP and western.
+
+* “`Redoing it Voldemort Style`_” the person who is sent from the
+  Heavenly Rail-station to fix the screwed up story of Magical
+  Britain is this time Tom Riddle, who is thrown for that purpose
+  back to 1938 while he was still firmly in the Wool Orphanage.
+  Instead of terrorizing other children in the orphanage, he
+  starts to use his magic and that Slytherin cunning to make the
+  situation better for everybody. Except then the story was
+  abandoned just when it started to be exciting.
+
+* “`Letters to Walpurgis`_” it is still in the large HP
+  storyline, but Tom Riddle being drafted to the Royal Army
+  during the Second World War quickly changes so much that the
+  story goes AU so heavily it doesn’t have much to do with the
+  main storyline any more.
+
+
+.. _`Fics like Starnlicht?`:
+   https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/no0bew/fics_like_starnlicht/
+
+.. _BallZealousideal2109:
+   https://www.reddit.com/u/BallZealousideal2109
+
+.. _`the post about the religion-less universe of Harry Potter`:
+   {filename}religionless-hp.rst
+
+.. _Bloodstone:
+    https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9445599
+
+.. _`Fires of Time by GHL`:
+    https://www.siye.co.uk/siye/viewstory.php?sid=130225
+
+.. _`Letters to Walpurgis`:
+    https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6814813
+
+.. _`Makers of Fine Wands`:
+    http://www.mugglenetfanfiction.com/viewstory.php?sid=93428
+
+.. _`Makers of Fine Wands since 382 BC`:
+    https://aaran-st-vines.nsns.fanficauthors.net/Makers_of_Fine_Wands_since_382_BC/index/
+
+.. _`Redoing it Voldemort Style`:
+    https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11000034
+
+.. _Splinters:
+    https://www.siye.co.uk/siye/viewstory.php?sid=129984
+
+.. _`The Friar's Calling`:
+    https://www.archiveofourown.org/works/7460772
+
+.. _`The Mistake`:
+    https://www.archiveofourown.org/works/298504
+
+.. _`The Western Front`:
+    https://www.wattpad.com/story/102514713-the-western-front-a-harry-potter-fanfiction
+
+.. _`With the Devil`:
+    https://harrypotterfanfiction.com/viewstory.php?psid=288707
+
+.. _`The Accidental Animagus`:
+   https://archiveofourown.org/works/14078862
+
+.. _`James and Me`:
+   https://archiveofourown.org/works/8402590