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+Cepl’s Introduction to fem!Harrys
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+
+:date: 2020-03-16T09:09:21
+:category: literature
+:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit
+
+(my comments on “`LF Fics to introduce me to fem!Harry by
+u/frostking104`_” Reddit thread)
+
+.. _`LF Fics to introduce me to fem!Harry by u/frostking104`:
+    https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/fje6nu/lf_fics_to_introduce_me_to_femharry/
+
+There are two types of fem!Harry stories:
+
+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
+   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).
+   For some of them the difference in result is minimal (I like
+   `The Videus Charm by OfPensandSwords`_ as an example), for
+   some of them it leads to completely different stories. I like
+   `Victoria Potter by Taure`_ and I *really* liked the very good
+   setup of `The odds were never in my favour by Antony444`_, but
+   it turns kind of weird in the second year and later with the
+   hidden cabala running the world and similar crap. Also, for
+   very different story `Tea Cures All Ills by delizabethl22`_.
+
+2. Gender-bender stories, where Harry was originally our Harry
+   from the books, but then something weird happened and he
+   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 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 (other is
+   `21206021`_). 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,
+   and I remember just the overall feeling about it now.
+   A reasonably good variant on this theme is `Becoming Harriet
+   by Teao`_, where the pairing is with the Snape’s AU son, and
+   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.
+   
+   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.
+
+**{update 2022-03-05}**
+
+There are some more stories with fem!Harry which deserve
+recognition:
+
+.. A Change in Circumstances-ao3_1844407.epub
+    A Skirt's Not So Bad-ao3_32212609.epub
+    Back again-ao3_27089722.epub
+    Feminea Inextensi-ao3_34390174.epub
+    Gryffindor's Girl-ffnet_11483591.epub
+    Harriet Potter Is-ao3_6109822.epub
+    Harriet Potter_ What it is like to be a witch-ao3_4699043.epub
+    Harry is a She_-ffnet_13914661.epub
+    Harry Potter and the Cloud with the Silver Lining-ffnet_13185192.epub
+    Harry Potter and the Gang of Giggling Girls-ffnet_11268925.epub
+    Harry Potter Witch-ffnet_7706345.epub
+    Harry & the Mysterious Curse of the Girl-Who-Lived-ffnet_6343543.epub
+    High Heels and Hippogriffs-ffnet_13952417.epub
+    Jamie Evans and Fate's Fool-ffnet_8175132.epub
+    Magical Metamorphosis-ao3_11063298.epub
+    Not a Girl-ffnet_5883303.epub
+    Past an Hour the Prospect's Black-ffnet_13437829.epub
+    Skirt-ao3_20188459.epub
+    The Daisy Chain-ffnet_13106883.epub
+    The Pureblood Pretense-ffnet_7613196.epub
+    The Traitor's Daughter-ao3_33974866.epub
+    To Walk A Mile In someone else's Shoes-ffnet_7452425.epub
+
+----
+
+.. _`The Videus Charm by OfPensandSwords`:
+   https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13197260/1/
+
+.. _`Victoria Potter by Taure`:
+   https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12713828/1/
+
+.. _`The odds were never in my favour by Antony444`:
+   https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11517506/1/
+
+.. _`Tea Cures All Ills by delizabethl22`:
+   https://archiveofourown.org/works/5372018
+
+.. _`11396276`:
+   https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11396276/1/
+
+.. _`21206021`:
+   https://archiveofourown.org/works/21206021
+
+.. _`Pranking The Tournament by Gardevoir687`:
+   https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13132217
+
+.. _`Snape's Daughter by Tribi`:
+   https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7618752/1/
+
+.. _`Becoming Harriet by Teao`:
+   https://archiveofourown.org/works/4876630
+
+.. _`A Fair Life by Rtnwriter`:
+   https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13285012/1/
+
+.. _`A Different Perspective by StellaStarMagic`:
+   https://archiveofourown.org/works/22953583
+
+.. _`To Reach Without by inwardtransience`:
+   https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11862560/1/To-Reach-Without