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+On Harriet Potter
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+
+:date: 2018-06-13T22:49:55
+:status: draft
+:category: literature
+:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment
+
+While looking for some nice fanfiction story I randomly hit on 
+the story with the enticing title
+“`Harriet Potter: What it is like to be a witch`_”. It had also 
+rather interesting summary. Only later I woke up to how many 
+Harry turns to girl stories there, and most of them are trash.  
+However, my first half-conscious thought when looking at this 
+was: “That’s a splendid idea, I wonder whether the happy world of 
+magic would be so magic for a girl. Crossover between Harry 
+Potter and feminism?  Interesting.” I don’t want to write about
+that particular story too much, because unfortunately I found it
+to be a complete piece of trash. I am not sure about the author,
+but it seems like the author was actually not a woman, but a gay
+(transgender? something) male, and the story not much more than
+a graphomaniac description of his fantasies without much touch of
+a story. After spending a (long) chapter on endlessly describing
+process of physical transformation with details of every part of
+her body changed, and after (another!) long chapter spent on
+shopping for clothes with her friends (Fleur Weasley & Nimphadora
+Tonks! Can you imagine her to go for a shopping spree?), it went
+straight to sex. I haven’t finished reading more than first few
+chapters, and then left it where it belongs, in trash. So, this
+is not a proper review of that particular story, just the highly
+disgusted impression.
+
+However, the idea of taking on the patriarchy inside of the 
+magical world still seemed tempting to me. So, I went to 
+intentionally search for some story like this, but better 
+written. Only then I found that this story is probably just the 
+second one in numbers after “Do you wonder what would happen if 
+Harry Potter had a sister-twin?” (no, I am not), and most of them 
+are not better than that one. However, in the end, I found one 
+which seems interesting. “`Becoming Harriet`_” by Teao. 
+
+.. _`Harriet Potter: What it is like to be a witch`:
+    https://archiveofourown.org/works/4699043
+
+.. _`Becoming Harriet`:
+    https://archiveofourown.org/works/4876630