Harry Potter digest-sized fanfic blog with lesser characters?

May 16, 2017 3:42 PM

Someone posted a blog here on MeTa a few years(?) ago that was a series of short fictions on lesser HP characters like Goyle and Lee Jordan and how their lives went after the Battle of Hogwarts. Goyle was a petty criminal turned boxer and Lee Jordan was in a boring desk job instead of a play-by-play announcer like he'd always dreamed of doing. What was that called? Thanks in advance.
posted by ostranenie to MetaFilter-Related at 3:42 PM (15 comments total)

Was it How Wizards Do Money (MetaFilter post)?
posted by mbrubeck at 5:36 PM on May 16, 2017 [1 favorite]

Yeah it was Nicole Dieker's stories. I always assumed she was at least partly inspired by her colleague Mallory Ortberg's obsession with Ronbledore over at The (late lamented) Toast.

By the way if you like short little vignettes set in the Potterverse this tumblr was great.
The posts are organized and archived on AO3 here.

Cauterize is also a great little post-war vignette.
posted by Wretch729 at 8:42 PM on May 16, 2017

Yeah it was Nicole Dieker's stories. I always assumed she was at least partly inspired by her colleague Mallory Ortberg's obsession with Ronbledore over at The (late lamented) Toast.

I think you're confusing Nicole Dieker with Nicole Cliffe.
posted by Shmuel510 at 8:49 PM on May 16, 2017

Though I see that Dieker did have three posts on The Toast, so perhaps not!
posted by Shmuel510 at 8:57 PM on May 16, 2017

Maybe colleague was too strong a word but I knew she was a contributor and reader. Now I have unearthed twitter proof of the link! #Ronbledoresallthewaydown
posted by Wretch729 at 10:19 PM on May 16, 2017 [2 favorites]

There was a post that I think was linked on the blue which was a long series of snippets that followed the characters after the books, major and minor, interleaved as micro-scenes like Cauterize above, but with no framing conceit. It may have focused on the women, but touched on almost everyone. It may have been a blog post rather than fanfiction.net.

I realize that I'm basically describing a genre of fic instead of a single work, but it's what came to mind. It was good, and I cannot find it for the life of me.
posted by postcommunism at 5:24 AM on May 17, 2017

postcommunism, I also remember something like that, and went looking for it recently but couldn't find it. The one I remember had a lot of bits about Ginny and Harry's failed marriage, Hermione trying to give Ginny advice, Neville and Luna being generally awesome...

I thought maybe it was a very long Twitter thread, and I do think it was linked from MetaFilter.
posted by mbrubeck at 7:53 AM on May 17, 2017

The one I remember had a lot of bits about Ginny and Harry's failed marriage, Hermione trying to give Ginny advice, Neville and Luna being generally awesome...

Ginny and Harry's marriage fails? Huh. I always figured that Ron and Hermione would be the doomed relationship. But I can see it, the widening division that occurs after Harry insists on naming one of their kids after Severus Snape.
posted by nubs at 11:34 AM on May 17, 2017

postcommunism: There was a post that I think was linked on the blue which was a long series of snippets that followed the characters after the books, major and minor, interleaved as micro-scenes like Cauterize above, but with no framing conceit. It may have focused on the women, but touched on almost everyone. It may have been a blog post rather than fanfiction.net.

I believe you are thinking of dirgewithoutmusic's works! Love "The Family Evans," a what-if where Petunia opens her heart to Harry and raises him as a son.
posted by saturngirl at 2:01 PM on May 17, 2017 [1 favorite]

So maybe this is the place to ask - I'm in the middle (well, actually close to the end - we're about to start book 7) of reading the books to the my kids (a re-read for me). Anyways, one of the things I've been wondering about is why the heck the school of Hogwarts (and/or the Ministry of Magic) doesn't hire one of the actual Muggle parents of one of the children who attended Hogwarts as the Muggle studies teacher or in Muggle affairs? Like, wouldn't even using the Muggle-born students to help the wizardworld students understand the Muggleverse be a pretty effective solution in itself? I'm constantly struck by how bizarre Arthur Weasley's understanding of the Muggleverse is, and that's his job! Why wouldn't they have hired someone from the Muggle world who knows about wizards? Has anyone written a fanfic on that?
posted by nubs at 2:27 PM on May 17, 2017 [2 favorites]

I found the series of fic snippets that I was thinking of! Modern Day Harry Potter, originally posted to the author's Twitter account tagged with #mdhp. I couldn't find any mention of it on MetaFilter, so I guess I saw it elsewhere.
posted by mbrubeck at 3:39 PM on May 17, 2017 [3 favorites]

> Modern Day Harry Potter

That's it! Good stuff. Remembered to bookmark this time.
posted by postcommunism at 5:20 PM on May 17, 2017 [1 favorite]

it was, thanks very much
posted by ostranenie at 7:32 PM on May 17, 2017

nubs: The Statute of Secrecy would not allow that to happen.
posted by divabat at 3:48 AM on May 20, 2017

Oh thank you mbrubeck that Modern Day Harry Potter link is saving my afternoon. Bless.
posted by Wretch729 at 12:40 PM on May 22, 2017 [2 favorites]