Who are the Drarry Veterans?

[snowgall]

Because I'm curious about these things, I wondered which authors had been writing Drarry for the longest time. There have been literally thousands of Drarry fanfic authors over the years (not kidding: I've got over a thousand names in my database alone). So in order to find an answer to this question I decided to limit my results by these requirements:

• The author should have published their first Drarry fic before Deathly Hallows came out on July 21, 2007
  I needed some cut-off date to start with, and this seemed as reasonable a way to limit the list as any
• Authors should still be currently writing Drarry
  What this means for me is that an author will have published at least one new Drarry fic since May 1, 2014 (i.e. approximately in the last year)
• Authors should have written at least five Drarry fics in this time period
  I included this restriction because there were a few authors in my database who happened to have written one early Drarry and another one more recently but who usually write for other fandoms or ships. It didn't feel as comparable to the other authors on this list who had been more dependably Drarry/HP focused.
  

So who did I come up with using these restrictions?



AuthorEarly fic exampleRecent fic example

alisanne
12/2006
Holiday Assignment
05/2015
A Good Night (AO3 here)

charmed310
02/2007
You took WHAT?
04/2015
Whole (AO3 here)

create_serenity
12/2005
I Don't Want To See That In Your Mind
04/2015
Carnal Desires (AO3 here)

dysonrules
03/2007
Draco's Escort Service (AO3 here)
12/2014
Twelve Months (AO3 here)

enchanted_jae
11/2005
The Remedy
03/2015
Potion First, Passion Second

femmequixotic
12/2006
Gone Down The Angel On A Lonely Night (AO3 here)
12/2014
A Private Reason for This (AO3 here)

gatewaygirl
09/2004
Whispers (AO3 here)
07/2014
Breaking the Curse (AO3 here)

lomonaaeren
05/2007
A Year's Temptation (AO3 here)
04/2015
Dark Land of Wonders (AO3 here)

lordhellebore
12/2005
Saving Angel
03/2015
Go Gentle (AO3 here)

mab
03/2004
Best Two out of Three * (AO3 here)
01/2015
'Twas Brillig (AO3 here)

megyal
04/2007
When Love beckons to you, follow him
03/2015
The first of all pleasures (AO3 here)

Melusinahp
07/2007
Bells and Whistles
12/2014
Chaos Theory (AO3 here)

oldenuf2nb
07/2007
Anything for Charity
06/2015
Something Spectacular

pir8fancier
10/2004
Lettered (AO3 here)
02/2015
Eight Things that Annoy--HIJACKED BY DRACO MALFOY, FANGIRL

ravenna_c_tan
04/2006
Tempus (AO3 here)
07/2014
Beautiful Oblivion (AO3 here)

samaelthekind
03/2006
All I Ever Wanted (AO3 here)
08/2014
Getting Off And Getting Even (AO3 here)

sassy_cissa
05/2007
Three Little Words
03/2015
Seamus Finnigan is Lucky He's Alive (AO3 here)

sdkshelly
06/2006
Good Day To Be Alive (AO3 here)
07/2014
Pub Night (AO3 here)

taradiane
09/2004
Inevitable (AO3 here)
12/2014
Love Comes Tumbling (AO3 here)

twistedm
03/2006
Captured
05/2014
Harry Potter and the Obnoxious Heirloom (AO3 here)

zeitgeistic
07/2006
Black, in the Smothering Dark
07/2014
Potential Gravity (AO3 here)

* the original link to mab's early fic "Best Two Out of Three" is locked. But here's a screenshot for anyone who'd like to see the evidence :)

My database is large but not infinite. Any omissions are unintentional - if you know of an author who should be on this list who I didn't include, please let me know ASAP!

Keep in mind:

• You might be wondering where faithwood and who_la_hoop are on this list. So far as I can tell, they published their first Drarry fics after DH came out. If I'm wrong about that, I would love to know it!
• If an author has currently written a fic which is still anonymous for a fest, I can't know that, so I couldn't factor that in. I'm sorry if that means I left anyone off this list. Let me know after reveals, and I'll fix it.
• Co-authorship sometimes messes up my search results (for *reasons*) so if an author co-authored early fics I might not have realized it and may have missed them in my search. Let me know and I'll add them in!
• If an author's early fics aren't dated, then I can't know when they were published and so couldn't include them in my search. Please try to verify dates for me if you think I've missed someone. (Oh hey, another reason dates matter :)