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diff --git a/faith/on_harriet_potter.rst b/faith/on_harriet_potter.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2bc4e73 --- /dev/null +++ b/faith/on_harriet_potter.rst @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +On Harriet Potter +################# + +:date: 2018-06-13T22:49:55 +:status: draft +:category: faith +: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 |