Historical Harry Potter stories
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: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