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diff --git a/faith/another_on_animagus.rst b/faith/another_on_animagus.rst index 4b2f2a6..24e2274 100644 --- a/faith/another_on_animagus.rst +++ b/faith/another_on_animagus.rst @@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ On top of that I have two comments: 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 diff --git a/faith/historical-hp.rst b/faith/historical-hp.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..513bd0f --- /dev/null +++ b/faith/historical-hp.rst @@ -0,0 +1,138 @@ +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 |