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diff --git a/literature/intro-to-femHarry.rst b/literature/intro-to-femHarry.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3be899b --- /dev/null +++ b/literature/intro-to-femHarry.rst @@ -0,0 +1,144 @@ +Cepl’s Introduction to fem!Harrys +################################# + +:date: 2020-03-16T09:09:21 +:category: literature +:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit + +(my comments on “`LF Fics to introduce me to fem!Harry by +u/frostking104`_” Reddit thread) + +.. _`LF Fics to introduce me to fem!Harry by u/frostking104`: + https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/fje6nu/lf_fics_to_introduce_me_to_femharry/ + +There are two types of fem!Harry stories: + +1. Where Harry (with a different name, of course) is naturally + a girl, always was and always will be. Usually, I guess, the + motivation is that the author is a woman, and she feels + uncomfortable writing from the male point of view (I know + something about that, somehow, without me wanting it, most of + my stories have a female protagonist, and it is really hard). + For some of them the difference in result is minimal (I like + `The Videus Charm by OfPensandSwords`_ as an example), for + some of them it leads to completely different stories. I like + `Victoria Potter by Taure`_ and I *really* liked the very good + setup of `The odds were never in my favour by Antony444`_, but + it turns kind of weird in the second year and later with the + hidden cabala running the world and similar crap. Also, for + very different story `Tea Cures All Ills by delizabethl22`_. + +2. Gender-bender stories, where Harry was originally our Harry + from the books, but then something weird happened and he + turned to a girl (or he was born as a girl and then his sex + was magically hidden and now he/she turns back into his + natural state). There are many wrong reasons why somebody + could write such a story. First, and I am afraid it applies to + most of them, the author wanted to write a lemon and femslash + was juicier for (I guess, usually) him. One unashamedly so is + IMHO `11396276`_ and I will leave it at that (other is + `21206021`_). Or there is non-smutty, just fun, variant in + `Pranking The Tournament by Gardevoir687`_. + + The second is that they are Snape/Draco fans and they didn’t + want to write a slash story, so they turned Harry into a girl + to suit them better to their planned pairing. One classical + example would be `Snape's Daughter by Tribi`_ with the + unbelievably horrible choice of name for the main protagonist + (I won’t even write it here). I am not a big fan of either + Snape or Draco, so when the story turned to be Drarry, I quit, + and I remember just the overall feeling about it now. + A reasonably good variant on this theme is `Becoming Harriet + by Teao`_, where the pairing is with the Snape’s AU son, and + it suffers from the deluge of smut (including some of the most + obnoxious tropes like magical-hormone-makes-you-horny), but if + you skip that, there is a rather good story hidden beneath it. + + An alternative to that “something weird happened” is `A Fair + Life by Rtnwriter`_, where it is Harry (the canonical male + one)’s death in the Forbidden Forest at the end of DH and + returning as a girl on the eve of the announcement of + champions for the Triwizard tournament and it is so far rather + decently written Hermione/Harry femslash (not even too + smutty). Similar idea with different execution is `A Different + Perspective by StellaStarMagic`_, where the canonical Harry + jumps after Sirius into the Veil in the Death Chamber of the + Department of Mysteries, but he is kicked back by rather + Pratchettish Death into being a twin-sister of more or less + canonical Harry Potter just before the letters from Hogwarts + are delivered to them. She is sorted as a Hufflepuff, and it + develops into so-far interesting timeline repair story. + + Usually, the sticky part of gender bender stories is the + treatment of unease of the former Harry with him being + a female suddenly with all bits in wrong places. One example + of rather anxious treatment of the situation is `To Reach + Without by inwardtransience`_ which turns into the rather + interesting pairing of Harry/Susan Bones, but again further + the development, weirder it becomes. + +**{update 2022-03-05}** + +There are some more stories with fem!Harry which deserve +recognition: + +.. A Change in Circumstances-ao3_1844407.epub + A Skirt's Not So Bad-ao3_32212609.epub + Back again-ao3_27089722.epub + Feminea Inextensi-ao3_34390174.epub + Gryffindor's Girl-ffnet_11483591.epub + Harriet Potter Is-ao3_6109822.epub + Harriet Potter_ What it is like to be a witch-ao3_4699043.epub + Harry is a She_-ffnet_13914661.epub + Harry Potter and the Cloud with the Silver Lining-ffnet_13185192.epub + Harry Potter and the Gang of Giggling Girls-ffnet_11268925.epub + Harry Potter Witch-ffnet_7706345.epub + Harry & the Mysterious Curse of the Girl-Who-Lived-ffnet_6343543.epub + High Heels and Hippogriffs-ffnet_13952417.epub + Jamie Evans and Fate's Fool-ffnet_8175132.epub + Magical Metamorphosis-ao3_11063298.epub + Not a Girl-ffnet_5883303.epub + Past an Hour the Prospect's Black-ffnet_13437829.epub + Skirt-ao3_20188459.epub + The Daisy Chain-ffnet_13106883.epub + The Pureblood Pretense-ffnet_7613196.epub + The Traitor's Daughter-ao3_33974866.epub + To Walk A Mile In someone else's Shoes-ffnet_7452425.epub + +---- + +.. _`The Videus Charm by OfPensandSwords`: + https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13197260/1/ + +.. _`Victoria Potter by Taure`: + https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12713828/1/ + +.. _`The odds were never in my favour by Antony444`: + https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11517506/1/ + +.. _`Tea Cures All Ills by delizabethl22`: + https://archiveofourown.org/works/5372018 + +.. _`11396276`: + https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11396276/1/ + +.. _`21206021`: + https://archiveofourown.org/works/21206021 + +.. _`Pranking The Tournament by Gardevoir687`: + https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13132217 + +.. _`Snape's Daughter by Tribi`: + https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7618752/1/ + +.. _`Becoming Harriet by Teao`: + https://archiveofourown.org/works/4876630 + +.. _`A Fair Life by Rtnwriter`: + https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13285012/1/ + +.. _`A Different Perspective by StellaStarMagic`: + https://archiveofourown.org/works/22953583 + +.. _`To Reach Without by inwardtransience`: + https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11862560/1/To-Reach-Without |