Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

AU: Harry doesn't grow up with the Dursleys


This list more or less goes hand in hand with the other list I started today, Mentorship and adoption (Harry-centric) - where I only take stories that follow canon at least for a while. This list is for Harry having a different childhood - which means in a lot of cases also being adopted or at least mentored by someone.
Stories where Harry grows up with the Dursleys but that diverge from canon afterwards, see AU: Harry grows up with the Dursleys but story diverges from canon once at Hogwarts.

I only take a very specific kind of AU, though:
- The fateful attack on Halloween happened. James and Lily are dead. Harry is the Boy Who Lived. (For AU-stories where James and Lily are alive, check out [info]painless_j's list James and/or Lily live(s)).
- Harry is magical and comes to Hogwarts when he's 11 (or earlier). Or story can of course stop before Harry's years at Hogwarts. But I don't take any stories with "Harry comes to Hogwarts at 15..."
- Harry can be with the Dursleys originally but leaves them before he turns 11.
- No Redo-stories. See my Timetravel-list for those.
- Other than with my Mentorship and adoption-list, I accept Severitus and similar - provided they start pre-Hogwarts.
- No stories where Harry's caretaker lateron becomes his lover.
- No abandoned stories or WIPs with less than five chapters, please. And no badly written stories.

On to the fics )
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Mentorship and adoption (Harry-centric)


Having worked so much on my pairing-lists the last week, I need a break from them. ;)
So I'm making a list for Harry being mentored or adopted.
- For this list I accept only stories that follow canon at least for one book. (AU-stories belong either in AU: Harry doesn't grow up with the Dursleys or AU: Harry grows up with the Dursleys but story diverges from canon once at Hogwarts.)
- No Redo-stories. See my Timetravel-list for those.
- For Dumbledore as (only) mentor, see my Grandfatherly and mentor!Dumbledore-list.
- No Severitus-stories, "Sirius is Harry's father" or similar. (Unless the blood-relationship is secondary and someone else is the primary mentor! Or someone becomes Harry's mentor before the blood-relationship is known.) - for Severitus-stories see [info]enahma's list Complete Severitus stories.
- And no stories where the mentor-relationship developes into a romantical one, please.
- No abandoned stories or WIPs with less than five chapters, please. And no badly written stories.
- There are a couple of stories where Harry gets adopted but the adoption is very far from being the focus of the story, so I probably won't add any of those.

On to the fics )
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Saturday, June 24th, 2006

Dumbledore in Harry/Snape-fanfics


I have been getting lots of Harry/Snape-fics for both my Manipulative Dumbledore and Grandfatherly and mentor!Dumbledore lists. For the most part they don't seem to fully fit in either of the lists, so I won't be adding most Harry/Snape-fics with Dumbledore playing an important role as the chief-manipulator in getting them together in either of those lists. Instead I'll try to categorize them somewhat here.

On to the fics )
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Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

Grandfatherly Dumbledore or Dumbledore as mentor to Harry


This is the list that goes together with the one before about Manipulative Dumbledore, kind of its counterpart. It will contain Dumbledore being grandfatherly towards Harry or his mentor. Or fics where they simply have a positive relationship.
For the most part Harry/Snape-fics where Dumbledore plays an important role (as catalyst, master-manipulator or whatnot) belong in my Dumbledore in Harry/Snape-fics-list though I might add one or two if Dumbledore very actively mentors them during the fic.

On to the fics )
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Saturday, February 11th, 2006

Personal favorites, part 1: Family, mentorship, adoption, Severitus, Sevitus,...


An absolute favorite theme of mine is Harry interacting with adults: they can be true family by blood or simply adults who mentor him. Some of the stories in my other favorites also have Harry adopted or mentored by someone but are centered more closely around another theme, so I won't put them up here. Likewise I will not put stories that I find center on family in Sixth + Seventh year even if the story takes place during sixth year for instance.

On to the fics )
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