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Cepl’s Introduction to fem!Harrys
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: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
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.. _`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
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