Draquia Reviews Harry Potter Fanfiction
A collection of reviews of Harry Potter fanfiction. To nominate a fanfiction for review, please leave me a comment here or on reddit.
Pretty, Popular, and Good at Quidditch: The Narrative Rivalry of Ginny Weasley and Cho Chang
The Defence Association?’ said Cho. ‘The DA for short, so nobody knows what we’re talking about?’ ‘Yeah the DA’s good,’ said Ginny. ‘Only let’s make it stand for Dumbledore’s Army… Ginny and Cho together make the name for the DA. Cho’s suggestion comes first, but it is Ginny’s that sticks. Here we have a microcosm…
The Ginny Essays: The Girl Who Always Loved Quidditch
This essay is one in a series of works surrounding a critical review of the character of Ginny Weasley. Although these essays will address a multitude of issues with the writing of Ginny Weasley, one which underpins this particular piece is the idea that Ginny in books 1-4 was written as a different character to…
Manacled by Senlinyu. The Handmaid’s Tale-esque Dramione war story that’s taking AO3 by storm.
Title: Manacled Author: Senlinyu Source: AO3 Length: 370k words Chapters: 77 Genre: Dystopia/Tragedy/Romance Rating: Explicit Published: 2018-2019 Trigger Warnings for discussions of violence, torture and rape. This is an incredibly bleak, heavy story. Not recommended if you are in a bad place, and definitely not recommended for minors. I think the rating “Explicit” is often…
Eternal Sunshine of the Scourgified Mind by Solstice Muse. A post-war amnesia story about mental health.
Trigger warnings for today’s review include heavy themes around mental health, depression and suicide. Title: Eternal Sunshine of the Scourgified Mind Author: Solstice Muse Source: Fanfiction.net Length: 177k words Chapters: 49 Genre: Angst/Drama Rating: T – but should be M for violence and adult themes Published: 2005-2006 – pre DH. If you dislike long form…
The many Deaths of Harry Potter by ShayneT
Today’s fic was recommended to me here rather than reddit, and it blows my mind a little that people are now reading these reviews across two platforms. Slightly changing up the formatting this time. Title: The many Deaths of Harry Potter Author: ShayneT Source: Fanfiction.net Length: 242k words Chapters: 78 Genre: Suspense/Horror Rating: T -…
G is for Gabrielle by Polkaking2
Trigger warnings below for discussion of sexual situations involving minors. Also for language because I get a little carried away talking about the first trigger warning. Premise In the summer of 1997, eleven year old Gabrielle Delacour comes to the Burrow ahead of Fleur and Bill’s wedding sans her parents. Shenanigans ensue as Gabrielle turns…
The Man Who Lived by SebastianL
This is a very popular and also very controversial fic. Firstly it is heavy. 250k words heavy in volume, and even heavier in content. The fic’s rating is Explicit, but not really for sexual content (although there is some of that as well). I would advise not reading this fic if you are triggered by…
Hermione Granger’s Hogwarts Crammer for Delinquents on the Run by Waspabi. In which Harry Potter learns he is a wizard at seventeen on a tube platform.
Premise Hermione Granger’s Hogwarts Crammer for Delinquents on the Run was based on this Tumblr prompt. It is an AU set during the Deathly Hallows, in which Harry never received his Hogwarts letter because the Dursleys moved around a lot and the ministry lost track of him for several years. He is now a seventeen-year-old…
Beyond the Curtain by Bobika
Premise Beyond the Curtain is an AU sequel in which Voldemort sees Snape’s memories and changes the outcome of the war by avoiding killing Harry. Within four years, he has established his empire and an impenetrable magical Curtain is brought down over most of Europe. Our story is set in 2019, 17 years after the…
Harry Potter and the Forests of Valbonë by Enembee
In which 12-year-old Harry accidentally flies to Albania and starts a goblin war. Premise The story is a canon deviation from around the end of Chamber of Secrets. Ginny has been rescued and Tom Riddle foiled – all should be well. Instead, Harry has some genuine PTSD from the events of the Chamber. A…
Seventh Horcrux by Emerald Ashes
So Seventh Horcrux is definitely a very good quality fic. Whilst it is a solid parody of the Harry Potter canon, there are also plenty of tongue-in-cheek references to fanon, and not having a solid knowledge of the latter will not impede your enjoyment of the work. This author knows what they’re doing. I’ll say…
A Black Comedy by Nonjon
Warning below for language and discussions of sexually explicit and unsavoury topics. The fic itself is not NC-17. Sex is talked about and referred to almost constantly, but there is almost nothing in the way of graphic depictions of sex scenes. I’ll note before diving in that this fic was written as Deathly Hallows was…
The Downward Spiral Saga by BolshevikMuppet99
I have to preface this review with a loud and clear trigger warning. There are mentions of torture, suicide, murder, sex between minors and childhood sexual abuse. I do not recommend reading on or looking up the fic if any of these things are distressing to you. The Premise Harry Potter is bastion of good…
The Sum of Their Parts by holdmybeer
The Premise The main idea of The Sum of Their Parts is to ask what it would take for Harry Potter to decide to be a Dark Lord and how he would go about establishing himself without sacrificing the depth of his bonds with Ron and Hermione. Fed up with the Ministry of Magic priming…
What You Leave behind by Newcomb
The Premise What You Leave Behind is an AU rewrite which, aside from a prologue, begins at Kings Cross Station on September 1st when Harry is 11 years old. Rather than a singular premise for the AU, the author’s purpose is fourfold. From their profile: An exploration and expansion of Hogwarts as a truly magical…
Robes of Green Series by KZ55
Trigger warnings for sexual references and sexual content between minors discussed below. I didn’t link the fic in Reddit because it breaks the ‘Sexual Content Involving Minors’ rule, but also it’s not very good. Premise The Robes of Green series follows Harry Potter had he been sorted into Slytherin, though the story picks up in…
Drop Dead Gorgeous by Maya
The notion of my reviewing a story that I unequivocally enjoyed was raised recently, so I interrupted my reading list to revisit an old favorite of mine. I last read it about a decade ago and wanted to see if it still held up, which for the most part it does. Maya was considered a…
The Dark Lord Never Died by Starfox5
Premise The Dark Lord Never Died features a canon divergence from 1981, on the night James and Lily are killed. Lucius Malfoy rallies the Death Eaters after Voldemort’s downfall, pretends to the rest of wizarding Britain that the Dark Lord is still alive and takes over the Ministry of Magic in his name. With Dumbledore…
Harry Potter and the Problem of Potions by Wyste
Premise Once upon a time, Harry Potter hid for two hours from Dudley in a chemistry classroom, while a nice graduate student explained about the scientific method and interesting facts about acids. A pebble thrown into the water causes ripples. This is the direct quote from the AO3 summary for Harry Potter and the Problem…
Turn by Saras Girl
This time I’d like to review a slash fic, which came highly recommended over on r/HPSlashFic. I only finished it a couple of months ago, but it left an impression on me, which fanfiction doesn’t often do. The Premise The story is loosely based on the concept of the movie ‘The Family Man’. It opens with…
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