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Dudley has a witch as a daughter
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:date: 2018-10-26T10:28:12
:category: faith
: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