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