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diff --git a/literature/good-petunia-stories.rst b/literature/good-petunia-stories.rst index f17f413..a618b06 100644 --- a/literature/good-petunia-stories.rst +++ b/literature/good-petunia-stories.rst @@ -90,6 +90,17 @@ I have found these later: and with Petunia's knowledge and Dan Granger's cunning, plots are made. +---- + +**{update 2024-03-14, PI-day!}** + +`/u/Lynxroar`_ on Reddit reminded me that I have forgot to add to +this list “`Flowers by the Wayside`_” by TalaRae, which quite +obviously deserves to be here, it is quite well-written story: +it seems everybody got an opportunity to return to past and fix +it. This is Petunia’s chance. + + .. _`LF: Petunia is a witch afterall`: https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/bvj24t/lf_petunia_is_a_witch_afterall/ @@ -131,3 +142,9 @@ I have found these later: .. _`The Daisy Chain by slytherinsal`: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13106883 + +.. _`/u/Lynxroar`: + https://www.reddit.com/user/Lynxroar + +.. _`Flowers by the Wayside`: + https://archiveofourown.org/works/23090008 diff --git a/literature/modesty_barebone-after.rst b/literature/modesty_barebone-after.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..abbfff4 --- /dev/null +++ b/literature/modesty_barebone-after.rst @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +Modesty Barebone … after being left alone +######################################### + +:date: 2023-07-14T17:31:25 +:category: literature +:tags: storyPrompt, harryPotter, plotBunny, fromReddit + +Originally published as “`Modesty Barebone … after being left alone`_” +on Reddit. + +.. _`Modesty Barebone … after being left alone`: + https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/14zjj4v/modesty_barebone_after_being_left_alone/ + +One of the most interesting characters in the first Fantastic +Beasts film, Modesty Barebone, was left alone in her old +childhood home, abandoned both by all adults and her brother +Credence (yes, he turned into Obscurial, so he was really not in +a shape to take care of her), and never mentioned again (AFAIK). + +Let me start here, a small story as a prompt: + +---- + +She didn’t even know why she took pieces of the wand with her +when she left for her old childhood home. When Credence exploded +and left, she was completely washed in pure magic. She thought in +the first moment, that she is going to die, that the explosion +is going to kill her. But nothing like that happened. Credence’s +magic recognized her and protected her, even when the whole +building collapsed around her. Showered with magic, she saw weird +fragments of stories in front of her eyes, she heard sounds she +couldn’t hear, she was flying in the middle of the room for a +moment, she lost consciousness in the end. + +When she woke up, she was in the ruins of the building, hidden +in the hole in the wall, just the size for her to comfortably +fit in. After the experience of the pure magic surrounding her, +she was not even surprised when she found out that the pieces +of the wand Mary Lou broke were together again and the wand was +pleasantly warm in her hand. + +So, that is how it was: an abandoned and lost little witch with +her wand in the middle of New York with nobody knowing about her, +without any food and without any money … + +---- + +That’s it. I would like somebody to continue with this story. A +little (eight years old) girl living on the streets of New +York, who has a wand (well hidden, because she knew from the +experience with the New Salem Philanthropic Society that many +people could hurt her), but not much else. Oliver Twist meets +Harry Potter. She will have to learn how to live on the streets +with the children gangs of New York, and perhaps later she will +meet somebody who will teach her to use her magic. + +Inspired by `this prompt`_, +but I have never seen anybody to pick it up and do it justice. + +.. _this prompt: + https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12278819/1/Street-Smart diff --git a/literature/on-the-sisterhood.rst b/literature/on-the-sisterhood.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..733ea17 --- /dev/null +++ b/literature/on-the-sisterhood.rst @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +Sequel to “Harry Potter and the Cloud with the Silver Lining” +############################################################# + +:date: 2024-03-17T20:18:00 +:category: literature +:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, storyPrompt, fromReddit + +“`Harry Potter and the Cloud with the Silver Lining`_” by +ev11235813 is one of those stories which frustrate me to no +end. It feels like a prologue to a much larger story, but the +writing has stopped exactly at the moment when I felt the +real story may finally start. The whole story is one of those +“one tiny change unravels all powers of the darkness” kind of +stories (something like “`Petrification Proliferation`_” by +/u/TheWhiteSquirrel, but that goes a way further on that path). I +can even see the story, which could start, but unfortunately I am +absolutely not in the position of the one to write (firstly, I am +a man). + +So, let’s make an inventory of what we have in the beginning of +the story, right? + +- Harry changed into a girl, with a promise of lots of small + substories on the theme “I had no idea your life is so + different”, which could be funny (or otherwise). + +- Group of five girls living together. I think that has + a huge potential for a great story. Something in the + style of a possible sisterhood, much like The Parlour in + “`The Changeling`_”, but much smaller so more tight and + personal. Sharing adventures, supporting each other, fighting + together (in both senses of the word), The Power of Sisterhood, + plenty of good stuff. + +- Many of Harry personal problems resolved (either + good!McGonagall, or liberated!Sirius or possibly even + Sirius/Amelia Bones are her guardians, Dursleys and 4 Privet + Drive are to be liquidated very soon, Malfoys are licking their + wounds), Horcruxes are being searched for. + +- good!Dumbledore (perhaps slightly confused or overworked, + perhaps with `personal problems`_, but to use terminology of + D&D he is chaotic good) and Competent Adults™ with Not Too Much + Corrupt Government™ + +The point of our story should be probably a series of +interwoven sub-stories of all girls, some of them typical +afternoon-high-school-TV-series ones (boys, school, jealousy, +etc), some of them less so (hunting Horcruxes, hunting +Pettigrew). I know that the original story slightly hinted into +femslash fem!Harry/Hermione, but I wouldn’t go there. Aside +from the fact that I don’t like femslash (nothing against +lesbians IRL, but I am an adult straight man, so I have a hard +time to identify with them), I would be afraid that such strong +relationship between two of the most important characters would +completely derail whole story from my idea of a story of whole +group, not story of any of these individuals. + +.. _`Harry Potter and the Cloud with the Silver Lining`: + https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13185192 + +.. _`Petrification Proliferation`: + https://archiveofourown.org/works/14031132 + +.. _`The Changeling`: + https://archiveofourown.org/works/189189 + +.. _`personal problems`: + {filename}broken_dumbledore.rst diff --git a/literature/on-wiolence-in-magical-world.rst b/literature/on-wiolence-in-magical-world.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c6c4c49 --- /dev/null +++ b/literature/on-wiolence-in-magical-world.rst @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ +On Violence in the Magical World +################################ + +:date: 2024-03-11T17:37:51 +:category: literature +:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment + +(a comment on the Reddit thread “`Lavender Brown is a good +friend.`_” started by `u/Fan_of_Fanfics`_; more discussion on +that thread) + +This is actually a very good comment, because it forced me +to think more about the magical world. Of course, I agree, +that culturally we are learned to be much more harsh about the +violence of man on women (for many good reasons) than the other +way around, but I don’t think it is it. + +From the Dolyist point of view, I am angry with “`Golden +Bullets`_” (and all bashing!Ron stories) that they manipulated +the story to be more violent and made Hermione look worse. It +is the same as with many Harmony stories, where Ron is not only +jealous and not believing Harry about the Goblet of Fire. No, he +even had a letter from Charlie informing him about dragons, and +he didn’t tell Harry anything, because he wanted him to be hurt +by a dragon! And this is the same here, not only Ron was hit by +twenty fluffy hairball-like little birds (which is what happened +in the film), but he was bloodied and wounded to the level he +required hospitalization! I don’t like it. + +However, that is not what is really interesting. The situation +is fascinating for me from the Watsonian point of view. I had to +rethink again how very violent the magical world is. Yes, you are +right, children are cruel and violent, but in the magical world, +every child since age eleven, got a lethal weapon in his hand +and training how to use it. I studied for a PhD in criminology +(not criminalistics, like the crime scene investigation, but a +sub-category of sociology, studying reasons why people commit +crimes and possible methods of prevention) and as such, I am +persuaded that the number of violent crimes in the United States +is directly correlated with number of weapons in population. + +There is that stupid argument that if you take weapons from +people, only criminals will have them. It completely misses +the point. The point where they are wrong is not that we would +like to prevent Cosa Nostra from committing crimes. We cannot, +or not by arms control. However, that is not our aim, because +most violent crime is not committed by criminal syndicates. What +we can do, is to prevent the casual availability of lethal +weapons in the population. As you said, children (or teenagers) +are cruel, violent, and completely lacking means of conflict +control. Conflicts, especially among male teenagers, happen, +and sometime end in violence. The difference between the United +States and other countries, is that in other countries they +use fists (or in the worst case, knives), which can hurt, +wound, but it takes much more effort to kill. In the US, +they have immediately guns in their hands, and somebody gets +killed. The highest number of murders in the United States among +non-relatives (of course, you know, that your most probable +murderer is among your relatives, especially your spouse, not +some evil criminal, right?), so the highest number of such +murders there is among teenagers, either in relation to drugs or +not. + +Now switch to the magical universe. It is the society which is +absolutely completely saturated with lethal weapons, in the +literal meaning of the word. Absolutely every magical child, +man, or woman has a lethal weapon in their hands all the time, +and they are trained to use it. The violent crime rate must be +incredible. I was joking that the Harry Potter universe is a lot +like the Wild West, where everybody has a gun on their belt, +but it is much, much worse. In such a world, the punishment for +any unjustifiable violent action, should be much, much more +strict, otherwise they would kill each other pretty quickly. And +of course, it is combined with all those hundreds of hormonal +teenagers being held together in a boarding school for a whole +year. + +.. _`Lavender Brown is a good friend.`: + https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/1bb1hvi/lavender_brown_is_a_good_friend/ + +.. _`u/Fan_of_Fanfics`: + https://www.reddit.com/user/Fan_of_Fanfics/ + +.. _`Golden Bullets`: + https://archiveofourown.org/works/18935341 diff --git a/literature/sexy_lamp_test.rst b/literature/sexy_lamp_test.rst index 3436240..ced4662 100644 --- a/literature/sexy_lamp_test.rst +++ b/literature/sexy_lamp_test.rst @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ acceptable: also `Dorothy Sayers on the Trinity and art of writing`_, but it is a difficult book to read). That is the only acceptable outcome. I don’t like much story “`Yule Ball Drama`_” by - FurySerenity for other reasons, and I really `don’t like the + FS_VanceMcGill for other reasons, and I really `don’t like the trope of Molly Weasley, the evil Potioneer`_, but if Molly, Ron, and Ginny Weasley don’t behave as they do in this story, its whole plot collapses and nothing remains. @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ acceptable: https://archiveofourown.org/works/18502153 .. _`don’t like the trope of Molly Weasley, the evil Potioneer`: - https://matej.ceplovi.cz/blog/molly-weasley-the-potion-mistress.html + {filename}molly-weasley-potion-mistress.rst .. _`Thank You Ms Bones`: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3230439 |