In "How Harry Potter Fanfic Changed the World (or at Least the Internet)" Heidi Tandy explores the history of Harry Potter fanfiction.
The rollout went quite smoothly except for one detail: anyone who visits the website atClintonKaine.comis greeted by the latest chapter of "Hillary Potter," a silly satirical comic mashup featuring characters like Timotonous Kaine, Don Marvolo Trump, Mike Pent and of course, Hillary P...
” Wood inspected it closely but then smirked, “Potter…this is a golden snitch, not a ferrero rocher chocolate… It's wicked fast and down near impossible to see.” Harry’s face drooped, “So it isn't chocolate?” asked Harry, disappointed. “No potter it's not…A toddler would ...
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality HPMOR.com is an authorized, ad-free mirror ofEliezer Yudkowsky‘s epic Harry Potter fanfic,Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality(originally under the pen nameLess Wrong). The story is complete now, so therss feedfor the story mirror won’t ...
In 1998, when there was no Harry Potter phenomenon, I heard of the J.K. Rowling book from my children. Their friends had read an "amazing" book and encouraged them to read it too. I was very protective of my children; to the extent of having sway over the books they could read. ...
Treading water, as any Professor Trendhound does in such situations, I said that I could live with it, if done by Cronenberg, but thought Saw and Hostel were nasty. "No, no," it was explained. "Slash -- as in fanfic." I didn't know Fanfic from Harpic.Sutherland, John...
Why You Should Care:This is light, fuffy fair that has no broader purpose than to have a bit of fun with Tonks and her Hufflepuff contemporaries, and in that it does its job splendidly. In the Harry Potter books, we spend so much time with Gryffindors looking out at the other houses ...
years that preceded the movie. The process of adaptation is always fraught; add in a million hypervigilant fans and it gets even trickier. To understand how a movie based on Harry Styles fanfic became a film that doesn’t mention Harry Styles at all, you have to go back to the beginning...
In this paper I look at how gender is performed in fanfiction, specifically in gender-swap stories within the Harry Potter fandom. Fanfiction is not constr