Cepl’s Introduction to fem!Harrys ################################# :date: 2020-03-16T09:09:21 :category: faith :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