Harry Potter fanfic shenanigans
I said I'd make a post on it, and I am making it now!
I have recently updated my story "Sand in the Time Turner" with four new chapters. The fic is basically just a collection of entirely random missing moments I wrote.
Deluminated simply tells what happened to Ron when he walked out on Harry and Hermione in Deathly Hallows. It goes through his capture by the Snatchers right to just after he rescues Harry from drowning. I just finished it last week, and my God, it took forever. It could be better, but this is the best I can do for now.
After writing it, I randomly went back to look at my old fics on the dearly departed ThinkPotter forums which I have talked of before and found I missed two pages of fanfic thread postings. Holy shit, I wrote a lot of Harry Potter fic as a youngling. I must have had either incredibly discipline or a lot of free time. So I found a bunch more missing moments I could fix up easily, leading to subsequent updates.
In particular, there was a thread called "If these things could speak" where the challenge was to post ficlets from the point of view of various animals or objects in the Harry Potter universe. I saw that I did one on Crookshanks and one on the Time Turner way back when. I sort of liked them both, particularly the Crookshanks one, so I cleaned them up a bit and posted them. They're both very short.
Crookshanks Speaks and he's very cranky that rat keeps getting away!
The Time Turner Speaks but mostly listens.
The one I put up today, which I figured was decent enough, was the goofily named Secret Scenes in the Hospital Wing. It's very talky and by the numbers, but it has some decent moments, so I added some stuff, cleaned up a few things, and put it up. It was written pre-HBP, and was basically about Ron and Hermione being stuck in the hospital wing post- Battle of the Department of Mysteries, and wondering what's up with Harry.
I only have one more old missing moment to clean up (excepting one other I'll put in a series of friendship vignettes about Hermione and Ginny) and then it will be back to writing newer, more action packed ones again. Ginny hexing Zacharias! Ron and Hermione realize Harry's run off to die in DH! Ginny stealing the sword of Gryffindor with Neville and Luna (I've decided to do those three's missing year as a series of seperate moments in this fic, rather than starting a whole other one). All that stuff.
But, back to all the old fanfic I found at Thinkpotter. It was very weird, seeing how much fanfic little me wrote. I'd forgotten I'd written half of it. I wrote this whole "through the eyes of Umbridge thing" that was really pretty boring, and some silly!fic that was mostly stupid. Reading this silly!fic was very odd, because it made me remember things I had long fogotten...like how much I hated Algebra.
“Guys! This is serious!” Hermione whined.
“Um, Hermione? Nothing in this fanfic is serious.” Harry said.
“Well, this is! The Author is getting bored with this story. She says we have three more chapters then we’re through.”
“Oooooh! What story will we be in next?”
“A serious one,” Hermione said. “I think you cry or something, Harry.”
“I liked Reflections,” Ron declared. “It really showed my sensitive side.”
“Well, I didn’t. A bunch of horrible things happened to me! I DIED, then lost the ability to walk for a while, then Ginny yelled at me, then you guys stalked me, then I went all schizoid then I got put in the hospital and we never found out whether I died or not! And now I’m going to CRY?” Harry shouted.
“More bad news,” Hermione cut off Harry’s rant. “Next chapter, you guys have to do everything I say.”
“WHAT?”
“I cut a deal with the Author. I help her pass Algebra and you guys are my slaves for a chapter.”
I broke the fourth wall for fun and profit before I even knew what it was! Take that, Grant Morrison!
Also, a bunch of Pre-HBP fics I'll have to read sometime, it's hard because I had an annoying habit of not spacing between my sentences. Also, I was a bit of an obnoxiouser brat back then judging from a few of my posts. I don't know how the rest of the forum put up with me. I guess they repeated "she'sonlythirteenshe'sonlythriteen" in their heads over and over again. I was lucky to find such kind people.
That's all the HP fic shenanigans for now! More to come!
I have recently updated my story "Sand in the Time Turner" with four new chapters. The fic is basically just a collection of entirely random missing moments I wrote.
Deluminated simply tells what happened to Ron when he walked out on Harry and Hermione in Deathly Hallows. It goes through his capture by the Snatchers right to just after he rescues Harry from drowning. I just finished it last week, and my God, it took forever. It could be better, but this is the best I can do for now.
After writing it, I randomly went back to look at my old fics on the dearly departed ThinkPotter forums which I have talked of before and found I missed two pages of fanfic thread postings. Holy shit, I wrote a lot of Harry Potter fic as a youngling. I must have had either incredibly discipline or a lot of free time. So I found a bunch more missing moments I could fix up easily, leading to subsequent updates.
In particular, there was a thread called "If these things could speak" where the challenge was to post ficlets from the point of view of various animals or objects in the Harry Potter universe. I saw that I did one on Crookshanks and one on the Time Turner way back when. I sort of liked them both, particularly the Crookshanks one, so I cleaned them up a bit and posted them. They're both very short.
Crookshanks Speaks and he's very cranky that rat keeps getting away!
The Time Turner Speaks but mostly listens.
The one I put up today, which I figured was decent enough, was the goofily named Secret Scenes in the Hospital Wing. It's very talky and by the numbers, but it has some decent moments, so I added some stuff, cleaned up a few things, and put it up. It was written pre-HBP, and was basically about Ron and Hermione being stuck in the hospital wing post- Battle of the Department of Mysteries, and wondering what's up with Harry.
I only have one more old missing moment to clean up (excepting one other I'll put in a series of friendship vignettes about Hermione and Ginny) and then it will be back to writing newer, more action packed ones again. Ginny hexing Zacharias! Ron and Hermione realize Harry's run off to die in DH! Ginny stealing the sword of Gryffindor with Neville and Luna (I've decided to do those three's missing year as a series of seperate moments in this fic, rather than starting a whole other one). All that stuff.
But, back to all the old fanfic I found at Thinkpotter. It was very weird, seeing how much fanfic little me wrote. I'd forgotten I'd written half of it. I wrote this whole "through the eyes of Umbridge thing" that was really pretty boring, and some silly!fic that was mostly stupid. Reading this silly!fic was very odd, because it made me remember things I had long fogotten...like how much I hated Algebra.
“Guys! This is serious!” Hermione whined.
“Um, Hermione? Nothing in this fanfic is serious.” Harry said.
“Well, this is! The Author is getting bored with this story. She says we have three more chapters then we’re through.”
“Oooooh! What story will we be in next?”
“A serious one,” Hermione said. “I think you cry or something, Harry.”
“I liked Reflections,” Ron declared. “It really showed my sensitive side.”
“Well, I didn’t. A bunch of horrible things happened to me! I DIED, then lost the ability to walk for a while, then Ginny yelled at me, then you guys stalked me, then I went all schizoid then I got put in the hospital and we never found out whether I died or not! And now I’m going to CRY?” Harry shouted.
“More bad news,” Hermione cut off Harry’s rant. “Next chapter, you guys have to do everything I say.”
“WHAT?”
“I cut a deal with the Author. I help her pass Algebra and you guys are my slaves for a chapter.”
I broke the fourth wall for fun and profit before I even knew what it was! Take that, Grant Morrison!
Also, a bunch of Pre-HBP fics I'll have to read sometime, it's hard because I had an annoying habit of not spacing between my sentences. Also, I was a bit of an obnoxiouser brat back then judging from a few of my posts. I don't know how the rest of the forum put up with me. I guess they repeated "she'sonlythirteenshe'sonlythriteen" in their heads over and over again. I was lucky to find such kind people.
That's all the HP fic shenanigans for now! More to come!