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diff --git a/faith/dudley-has-witch.rst b/faith/dudley-has-witch.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 8999b5e..0000000 --- a/faith/dudley-has-witch.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,54 +0,0 @@ -Dudley has a witch as a daughter -################################ - -:date: 2018-10-26T10:28:12 -:category: faith -:tags: HarryPotter, review, blogComment - -(review of `Must Have Changed A Lot`_) - -This certainly works as a one-shot, but as many (most?) fanfics -it is necessary to distinguish between exposition and story. -There are zillion fanfics with at least interesting exposition -(OK, so not only "what if Harry was a girl/has a sister"), but -with none story. And story is the only thing which matters for -anything longer than one chapter. - -Especially "what if Dudley has a witch" (surprisingly, almost -never a wizard) tend to get completely empty after the initial -fun scene of the panic coming over Dudley from the receipt of the -Hogwarts letter and almost inevitable frantic call (owl post) to -Harry for help. And then what? - -I know really only about two Dudley-has-a-witch stories which -have a good story line: `Dursley's daughter`_/`Dursley's -Dilemma`_ on Wattpad (unfortunately, still unfinished), and -incredibly good (and depressive and paranoid) `series of stories -about Holly Wycliff on AO3`_ (yes, for reasons I have never -understood, all Dursleys for security reasons changed both their -first names and the last name is Wycliff). But for both of these, -the initial exposition of what-if-Dudley-has-a-witch is just -start to an interesting story: the first one of just a plain -coming-of-age and troubles-of-teenager story (and I really like -“Stalky & Co.” so there is nothing wrong with that; on the top of -it, Esther Dursley is a Hufflepuff and there are so few good -Hufflepuff stories, if I, as a Ravenclaw, may say so). The second -goes to completely different, highly original and good stuff -(she is an empath and there is a lot of weird and dark story -about that). However, the point is, that for both them their -exposition is just that. The exposition. - -Now, let's see what the story brings. … Oh well, last updated -nine years ago. Oh well. - -.. _`Must Have Changed A Lot`: - https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4923697/ - -.. _`Dursley's daughter`: - https://www.wattpad.com/story/12122491-dursley's-daughter-a-harry-potter-next-generation - -.. _`Dursley's Dilemma`: - https://www.wattpad.com/192985075-dursley%27s-dilemma-sequel-to-dursley%27s-daughter-1 - -.. _`series of stories about Holly Wycliff on AO3`: - https://archiveofourown.org/series/62351 |