This week, Potterdom had its twentieth anniversary. I always felt somewhat on the periphery of the fandom - I enjoyed the books and read some of the fanfic, I did have some opinions and theories while the books were published, but I never felt compelled to write fanfic myself, I didn't ship anyone with anyone else, and I don't think I had a Harry-Potter-related argument with anyone. Oh, wait, I think I did argue, but only in one post, about how whoever sorted the Beatles into HP houses and put John in Slytherin and Paul in Gryffindor was completely wrong, and then I wrote some silly meta fic to prove it. But other than that.
Anyway: I'm still fond of the books and some of the fanfic, and so I was delighted to see![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
fernwithy celebrated the anniversary by writing a story about Harry shortly after Voldemort's death, trying to figure out where to go from there, and, not so coincidentally, what to do with Grimmauld Place 12, which as you'll recall Sirius left him, co-starring Kreacher and Andromeda Tonks, with cameos for Dudley and Petunia Dursley,
Broken
It captures grief, survivor's guilt, empathy, hope so very, very well.
Meanwhile, I just found there's this lovely bit from the last convention which both Stephen Furst and Peter Jurasik attended:
Boo on the cheapness of Warner Brothers, but aww on these two.
Anyway: I'm still fond of the books and some of the fanfic, and so I was delighted to see
fernwithy celebrated the anniversary by writing a story about Harry shortly after Voldemort's death, trying to figure out where to go from there, and, not so coincidentally, what to do with Grimmauld Place 12, which as you'll recall Sirius left him, co-starring Kreacher and Andromeda Tonks, with cameos for Dudley and Petunia Dursley, Broken
It captures grief, survivor's guilt, empathy, hope so very, very well.
Meanwhile, I just found there's this lovely bit from the last convention which both Stephen Furst and Peter Jurasik attended:
Boo on the cheapness of Warner Brothers, but aww on these two.
