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Hi, all.

I read HP when I was around 13 and I loved it. As I've aged, I find myself preferring several fics over the original.

If your favourite fic was the original, do you think you would've enjoyed it as much/more/less than the JKR ones?

(Ofc fics build on pre-existing material so they largely rely on the assumption that we already know the original work. Let's pretend they don't. Please be normal.)

It was likely on Fanfiction as I read it sometime between 2017 and 2019. The story starts in summer before Harry's 3rd year with him getting onto the night bus. Rather than going to the leaky cauldron he decides to head to Hermione's place since if anybody he knew and trusted understood wizard law it was likely her. This leads to her parents meeting him (Hermione's father says something about Harry atleast not being the ginger kid who made Hermione cry) and after an explanation of events Hermione basically clears the kitchen table to spread out her books and research what can be done. Since the 1st incident was Dobby related they decide to contact the DMLE via Hedwig. This kicks off Amelia and Tonks showing up the next morning to 1: get a statement about the Dobby incident which does result in his first warning being recinded, 2: explain about sirius black and 3: explain that Tonks was now playing bodyguard for the duration of the holidays.

Hermione and her father both point out that the situation with Sirius Black makes no sense as if there was an explosion then there'd be bits of Peter everywhere and not a clean cut finger. This gets the case reopened but without Sirius turning himself in for questioning they couldn't do much.

I am a lifelong HP fan, and Wolfstar girl since….2010? I’m a little out of the loop with the new fans interpretations of Marauders lore, but I love the creativity and how much research has been poured into it. Jegulus of course, being one of the “newer” popular ships that I am not as familiar with. I personally love the idea and potential of it, but do not want to dig through pages and pages of fics that don’t suit my taste, get frustrated, and bail (happened last time haha). Shoot me your best recommendations! I’ll leave my requirements/preferences below.

-No A/B/O or mpreg lol (nothing wrong with it! Just not my jam)
-No Soulmate/soul mark/etc
-No chatfics
-Honestly…the less AUs the better. I love the HP world! However, I’ll make an exception if it’s extremely well written
-I loveeee some angst, hurt/comfort. Not required, but a bonus!
-Open to one shots/short fics/character studies (love these!)

Thank you so much! I’m excited to dive in.

I’m writing an OC HP fanfic that’s been received very well over in Space Battles and slowly in AO3. I won’t say more details than that, in attempt to respect the spirit of the bi-weekly promotion thread, but I was wondering if it was worth the effort of cross posting in FFN to try and expand my audience?

I find the site a miserable hellscape to read in but it seems like especially for this community there might be a portion of readers that still discover new works there. Authors that have pushed a first time story to the site this decade, did you find the juice worth the squeeze?

Wondering if anyone still has this? I lost it a long time ago but now my daughter is keen to read it before she reads the real 6th and 7th books. Anyone willing to dm me a link please?

This might also be considered a prompt or a fic request but I was just thinking. Milicent bullstrode isnt really used that much. Usually as an example of an unfortunate girl being used as a female crabbe/goyle by pansy or as a punching bag by the author for some reason.

Has anyone ever seen her made a proper love interest. And not as a joke "harry and the troll i mean millicent" type story. Cause based on the way she was described in CoS I always thought she'd be the ugly duckling type and grow into a tall statuesqe amazon of a woman.

Managed to get a friend to give Harry Potter fanfiction a try. Anyone have any well known good stories with minimal romance (They do not want slash). Something with barely any fanfiction only tropes that he wouldnt understand yet. Probably something that is mostly canon compliant so they know most of the stuff going on. They base a lot of things on a good first impression so please help me find a couple to give them.

I am specifically looking for a Hp fanfiction mainly after Order of the Phoenix where he realizes that he let all of his friends get hurt badly and indirectly in a way kinda caused Sirius’s death and takes into account that there is a literal prophecy hanging over his head…so gets his shit together and starts training to stand a better chance against the Death Eaters and Voldemort. (If there’s none after Order of the Phoenix then I’ll just take any in general)

However what I really want to avoid is cliche fics where Harry acts completely OOC, acting edgy, bashing of his friends, goes around gathering a harem, becomes lord of multiple names, has Wesley’s tryna rob him or love dose him, and lastly instantly surpassing Voldemort and Dumbledore to the point where he can beat them with only his left hand (I’d really prefer if he was only just roughly below or close to their level but no where near surpassed because you’d need at least a lot more time and experience to catch up with these two folks) also no slash it’s just not my cup of tea no offense to anyone .

As the title might suggest, I'm looking for a specific type of crossover fanfic.

It's the trope of an adult, powerful, capable harry (MoD or otherwise), getting transported to the world where the crossover takes place and generally just getting involved in the events/characters that are there. Any crossover is fine.

Some examples:

'Post-Apocalyptic Potter from a Parallel Universe' by burnable

'Why not' by burnable

Magician By: WiseTomato

The Havoc side of the Force by Tsu Doh Nimh

Illusions of Grandeur by Kanathia

I've also read that really popular firefly crossover which was excellent (and an example of what I'm looking for)

Ideally I'd like to be able to understand what's going on without having an in-depth knowledge of the other universe's cannon.

To be perfectly honest I'm just looking for competence porn and I feel I've exhausted all the fics with good examples of that in the non-crossover section, the longer, the better.

(by all means if you know of a niche non-crossover fanfic that features an adult, powerful, competent Harry please do suggest it but I think I've read most of them, especially the ones involving time travel)

No slash or fempotter pls. Ideally no romance at all but I understand that can't always be avoided.

Thanks.

Edit: The aforementioned firefly crossover

So I had the random idea pop into my head, of a true seer harry, and now I just wanna see if anyone knows of any good fic's. Also no m/m plz

Please and thanks gents and ladies of reddit!

What ever you think is long please recomend just any fics i will read i need something good something peak even just give me all all all

I read a fic a few days ago, and there is a part that stuck with me because it was the first time I've seen it done: Dumbledore bashing/Weasley bashing where they wanted the Potter lordship (super cliché), but it turns out there are two Potter families in the wizarding world: the Potter family, which is a moderately wealthy family, and the House of Potter, which has a lordship. It turns out Harry is part of the Potter family, and Dumbledore thought he was of the House of Potter, so Dumbledore's plans of letting James get away with things and controlling Harry to get the lordship and control the Wizengamot seats were for nothing. In the fic, this was found out in the great hall while they tried to convince Harry to marry Ginny, and the student ended up laughing at them.

So after telling this, I'm looking for fics with this premise or at least as a side thing, like in the fic I found it in.

I’ve recently gotten into fanfic and while I’ve read some truly phenomenal stuff I’ve also recently fallen into a slump of reading a lot of stuff that does not match my vibe. Now, I’m not too fussy with the ships (though I am very biased toward wolfstar) as long as the pairings feel realistic (e.g adequate slow burn and strong character arcs to make dramione make sense etc). Would looove to hear what you guys have read that I should check out!

Some fics I’ve LOVED are All The Young Dudes(OG and Sirius’ perspective), The Disappearances of Draco Malfoy, Manacled, DRAMATMOBIL.

What I like in a fic: characterisation and premise that feels very realistic or true to canon, complex and well developed characters/arc,

What I don’t like in a fic: heavy smut, heavy focus on the ship especially when at the expense of good storytelling or accurate characterisation, crack fics, AU that is too far from canon (eg Art Heist, Baby!)

I don't mean this to insult anyone. If you still find it that way, then I'm sorry.

It's just that, when you're looking at some of the posts here, it can be a little confusing of what exactly the OP actually wanted. The most common thing is mixing up flairs. You see someone asking for fanfiction recommendations, and if it's something that you have read before, you would just recommend it to the OP. There doesn't seem to be a problem. It only might becomes confusing when you click on the post, and see the flair. On this sub-reddit, when you are asking for recommendations, you would use the "Request" flair. Seems easy enough. But from what I see, some people mixing this up with the "Recommendation" and "Find That Fic" flairs. "Recommendation" is an understandable mistake to make, since you are asking for recommendations. It's just that this flair isn't meant for that. "Recommendation" is used when you, the OP is recommending fanfictions to others to read. While "Find That Fic" is used you are asking for a specific fanfiction that you (might) have read before, but you don't recall the title (and/or the author). So this one makes a little less sense of why would they use it when they are requesting for possibly multiple fics.

I could imagine that those who have made these mistakes are still new to this sub-reddit. I mean, I have first found this sub-reddit back in the late 2010s, and even I made similar mistakes back then, because I didn't know what each flairs were meant to be used for. As hilarious as it sounds, I only noticed that is a Flair Descriptions page a few months ago. Though to be fair, I don't think that many people actually notice it at first.

Can someone please explain to me why is it every time I read a story with a Harry/Pansy pairing there is always a draco/Hermione side pairing

I just desperately need to read something purely fluff that ideally a happy family fic with a happy kiddo Harry or him getting rescued really young and being happy.

Any recommendations?

I want to read a fic where Lupin is actually treated with complexity (or even bashed), cuz let's face is he was a coward and a terrible husband, friend, whatever.

I am sick of the chocolate eating soft boy that's shown in every fanfic.

Any- Harry does a re do, Harry in past, Harry a part of Black family, Harry time travelling..whatever.

Just. A better picture of Remus. Not Harry getting emotional and soft at one sight of "his Uncle Moony. "

Please. ​​​

If you ever have tried to look for Harry Potter in a superhero story there's a million Harry's adopted stories or somebody's child in superhero fics. I'm looking for stories where he's an independent hero. No bashing or lordship please.

People in the HP subreddits love to point out that others completely overthink the details of a world that was never meant to be that deep. It's meant to be a whimsical world to ignite the imaginations of kids. In the fanfiction world, we need to fill in the holes, and smooth out the rough edges of the setting to have it make sense and have a sense of structure for our stories. Whether it's something you came up with for your stories, or something you read that resonated with you, what's your headcanons?

Mine is that Hogwarts isn't the only magical school in the UK. It's the premier elite school in the UK. It's the exclusive school for the social elites and the gifted kids. When you look at all the kids, they're a who's who of prominent wizarding families. They're the kids from the sacred 28 families and the families that should have been on the list, had the author not snubbed them because he hated them.

Or they're kids with extraordinary potential. Harry was told that the patronus charm was advanced powerful magic that trained adults had trouble figuring out. Ministry officials were absolutely amazed that a kid his age had pulled it off during his O.W.L. exams. Meanwhile, he gathered up a random sample of his fellow students and taught them how to do it within a couple weeks. These kids aren't your bog standard high school kids. They're the exceptional stand outs.

So, a few years ago I read a Harry Potter x reader ff on wattpad. The reader was Cedric Diggory's younger sister. At the end of every chapter Harry's parents and other characters as they died had a small moment where they talked about what they were seeing from heaven. I also remeber the readers mom, an OC, Rebecca I this her name was, divorced Cedric's dad and got with Sirius Black. Reader also had a pigmy puff that was a he and I think also a cactus that they "shared custody" with Harry

This are the few details I can remeber from the story but I can't seem to find it anywhere.

It was on wattpad and I don't know if it was deleted or something and I never got to know who it ended.

So if anyone has the authors name/story name/link, could you let me know.

I have been looking for quiet some time and I can't find it 😭

Help me find it, please