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diff --git a/literature/dudley-has-witch.rst b/literature/dudley-has-witch.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2991394 --- /dev/null +++ b/literature/dudley-has-witch.rst @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +Dudley has a witch as a daughter +################################ + +:date: 2018-10-26T10:28:12 +:category: literature +: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 |