r/HPfanfiction • u/the-phony-pony Headmistress • 6d ago
WeeklyDiscussion What are you writing? Bi-Weekly Post
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What are you working on this week? Share your WIPs, updated chapters, and most recent Harry Potter projects! Feel free to ask for feedback or other constructive advice in this post.
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u/GrubbyInsides 6d ago
I'm writing a fic called creeps (previously called Harry's Summers but I didn't like the literal title) Rated mature at the moment and unsure if I'm going to bump up to explict.
Summary: Harry returns to Hogwarts for his Eighth Year, but a game of Never Have I Ever starts to reveal what he really got up to during his Summers in Little Whinging.
I've only posted 2 chapters so far and I'm working on my 3rd and have tons of ideas for future chapters. I had this thought that there is a lot of missing time from Harrys summers spent in Little Whinging in canon and what would he have got up to if he was able to just have normal muggle teen experiences.
He's kept his muggle friend and his summers secret this whole time. It's essentially set eighth year with flashbacks/memories/stories being told throughout his eighth year.
(Posted this in the wrong thread before lol how embarrassing)
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u/Senior_Cow_4544 5d ago
A little summer project. My take on the postwar Harry goes to America and reinvents himself story. This time with an athletic twist. I’m trying to channel my best sport writing for this one. It’s been quite fun to write up so far. Weekly updates.
AU. Harry Potter traded his wand for a baseball glove, but you can't outrun magic forever. Now a star college pitcher throwing 96-mph heat, Harry's carefully constructed Muggle life begins to unravel when MLB scouts come calling and his body starts breaking down. When your fastball is your only ticket out, even a wizard might be tempted to cheat.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14492966/
Chapter Eight now up, number nine soon to follow! Near complete, just need to write up the epilogue!
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u/Altruistic-Hand4436 5d ago
i'm working on a fic called magimedicology! trying to get on a regular update schedule :). it's dramione with a slight enemies to lovers vibe, and i can't wait for yall to read it! if anyone has any suggestions/tips to make the writing flow smoothly(currently i feel like i struggle with inserting good imagery), PLEASE let me know! this is my first time writing a fic, and i'd love any help i can get. i specifically struggle with the transition from chapter to chapter, because it feels abrupt but i'm also not sure how to fix it? (okay first writer syndrome is clearly showing hahaha)
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u/AnaraliaThielle 4d ago
I'm trying to get back to writing more regularly on my Watch Over Meseries, which is canon divergent from the start of GoF and begins with Bill Weasley discovering the horcrux in Harry's scar. I've had a bit of a crisis of confidence lately with it but with all the lovely feedback I've had, I'm doing my best to get back to writing and posting on a proper schedule.
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u/WispandInk 4d ago
Just posted the next chapter of my WIP Hollow Hearth. A story about Harry discovering old magic, political legacy and finding his place in the world after the defeat of Voldemort. 40k words so far.
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u/Open_Preference4419 4d ago
Alternative Universe in which Voldy Won the War If you enjoyed the auction you would like this as well (morally grey Draco x Original Female Character). Premise: Draco’s heart stopped beating the day the war ended. Then came the girl who made it stir.
HE had declared that they would be expanding their efforts and taking over other wizarding nations in the years to come.
Fic rec: Heart of Stone Author: Kulfi 26
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u/asromta 3d ago
I'm still posting chapters of my second-year original plot genfic Harry Potter and the House that Slytherin Built. In this latest chapter, 'Honour Duel', we see a brutal side of Magical Britain in my fic: They still settle disputes by fighting it out publicly.
Anyone else also dealing with lots of bots right now? I've gotten more in the last few weeks than I have ever before, total. (Don't worry, I'm also getting plenty of very nice and genuine comments.)
Link to first year: Harry Potter and the Stolen Sun
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u/frackann1987 2d ago
In this week’s chapter of Ghost of You and Me: What a Broken Heart Feels Like, the war is over, and the battle has been won… or has it? The dead have been gathered and taken to be buried, but more than lives were lost that night. With the weight of the world on their shoulders, first, they must be the heroes of it, smile, and play a part. Why does it feel more like a sentence than a reward?
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/66275386/chapters/182987471
FFN: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14479110/1/Ghost-of-You-and-Me
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u/magic8ballzz 5d ago
I'm working on a collection of Drarry songfic oneshots. I have a playlist of songs I'm using for inspiration.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/70312731/chapters/182610386
Here's the playlist I'm using. If you want to suggest a song to add, let me know.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Q07kI9mxfyRU4KL5SLXHe?si=38361d409eac4399
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u/empathetic-wizard 6d ago
This is my ongoing, near-finished fic - first in a series to be - about a "lost generation" cohort of Hogwarts students in 2006 trying to navigate the beginning of the end of the Statute of Secrecy in the face of the digital age.
Despite the serious descript, it's also a fair bit about friendship/found-family, humor, banter, coming of age, and anti-nihilistic quiet drama. Light bit of romance too.
expect the likes of:
- introverts
- teenagers overthinking things
- teenagers underthinking things
- people who are definitely reading
- wingmanning with nuclear subtlety
- snakes as metaphors
- snakes as non-metaphors
- toast
- umbrellas
- magical history building
- kids looking after first year babs
- oh and the Statute issue nbd
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u/Cmdr-Tom 5d ago
Still on my re-write of DH, but starting arc 2. Team is leaving Beauxbatons and heading for Rome.
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u/Green_Curve7104 5d ago
I thought I had just one more chapter to go on this Snape/young Sprout prequel, but then the final chapter was approaching 15k words, so now it’s to be split!
A Different Shade of Green — this close to being finished! Then onto ‘Severus Snape & the Philosopher’s Stone’ 😅
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u/JustWowinCA 5d ago
I'm working on a HP/GOT crossover/fix-it. Harry Potter reborn as Rickon Stark. With the chaos and magic inside.
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u/Scyldwyn 4d ago
The Weighing of the Wands: The Stone Beyond Desire
(OC duo, canon rewrite year-by-year)
Two first-years, Alex Carter (creative loudmouth) and Theo Reid (quiet strategist), refuse to be background characters in this cannon-structured AU rewrite.
Small choices snowball: a rebuilt DA, cursed vaults in Year 4 instead of a tournament, resurfacing in Year 6 instead (when our characters are actually old enough!), and a total of eight years mapped out (six already drafted! I started writing in 2019!). Luna (moved a year forward) and Neville play major roles as our POV foils.
Darker stakes and physics-leaning spellcraft await this story, where rivalries turn into friendships and a scene could turn on its head at any moment. Currently updating biweekly (editing or draft refining takes so long sometimes! When I'm done editing I'll post faster.) Currently on Year 1 Chapter 6, posting 7 next Sunday.
Expect a slow burn where patience is rewarded.
Chapter 1 is ~3k words. Im looking for hook and pacing feedback, as well as voice for Neville and Luna starting in Chapter 5, given how important they are in this AU. Hope you enjoy!
~Scyld
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u/Savings_Market_4423 3d ago
Mary MacDonald only makes mistakes
Coming back an abandoned fic I found in the deepest depths of google docs hell.
It’s a Mean girls inspired ‘who done it’ mystery, which really empathises the messiness of being a teen.
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u/Wonderful_Map_8048 3d ago edited 1d ago
I’m currently writing a fanfiction centered on Evan Rosier and Rabastan Lestrange (Sirius, Narcissa, Barty, Prewett) set during their final year at Hogwarts.I actually started this fic 18 years ago on FF, in German. A few people seemed to enjoy it back then. Now I’m rewriting it in english or at least, I m trying to. It’s dark, definitely niche, and I know these characters aren’t the most popular but they’re the kind I always wish I could read more about.
It’s not a masterpiece, far from it, but it’s something I care about. If you like morally ambiguous Slytherins and dark romance, maybe it's worth giving it a try.
Hogwarts is a stage. The Tournament is only the curtain. Behind it, Slytherin rules like a court of vipers. Rosier, Lestrange, Black, Crouch. Already marked. Already dangerous. Already obeyed. Into their circle steps Lyra Lestrange, the sister buried abroad, the mistake that survived, the weakness they did not plan. She was meant to vanish. Instead, she came back from Durmstrang like someone who endured Crucio and learned to walk with it.
“She is like you, Rosier. She casts spells like death warrants.”
https://archiveofourown.org/works/66161665/chapters/182805416
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u/the-radio-wolf 2d ago
Posted chapter 15 of my Harry Potter/Tolkien crossover.
Title: where wings soar, hearts sing and dragons dance.
Summary: The Skyfall Program isn’t for the faint of heart. Dragons aren’t either.
Merida Eliza Potter was raised among both — dragon handlers, retired riders, and fire-breathing beasts at her family’s sanctuary.
While most first-years struggle to find their footing, uncertain of the path they’ve chosen, she fits into the saddle like she was born there.
She’s a mystery to her instructors. A spark waiting to ignite — an ember flickering, doused in water for too long.
And once she earns her wings… there’ll be no bringing her back down.
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/63771652/chapters/170329495
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u/RisingGear 1d ago
Was just Starting Chapter 6 of James Silvers and the Mysterious Boy. But also was considering getting a spinoff focusing on Harry’s grandson Sam Potter.
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u/Sofipond 1d ago edited 1d ago
Rating - Mature
Title - Dust, Mars, and Other Omens
Word/Chapter count: 2 chapters so far/17,798 words.
Genre - Dark Academia/Psychological Drama, Slow Burn Romance
Off-site link - Dust, Mars and Other Omens
Relationships - Theodore Nott/Ginny Weasley
Summary - Theo becomes Head of House Nott after the Death Eater trials post-Battle of the Department of Mysteries. Has to figure out how to survive at sixteen with inherited wealth, trauma, and a signet ring he can't remove. Meanwhile, he keeps running into a certain Weasley and discovers he's terrible at pretending he doesn't find her impossible.
Set during Theo's sixth/seventh year. Follows HBP/DH canon from background characters' perspective - same events, different angle. Diverges from Department of Mysteries but otherwise sticks to main storyline.
Slow burn, more like a simmer. A story written over 3 years that finally came together. 12 hefty chapters written, no idea how many total. Weekly updates.
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u/makomania 19h ago
Just posted chapter 19 of The Lines Between Us.
Mostly canon compliant but the story takes place about 7 years after the end of the war. It features Auror Draco and an original character Mina de Vries.
Slow burn, enemies to lovers set against the backdrop of high stakes magical crimes.
Draco is not thrilled to be the Dutch Ambassadors bodyguard, and Mina de Vries is not happy to have him as such. She's here to assist an elite task force, not to be barked at by a surly watchdog. When they meet, it's mutual loathing at first sight. But as cases close in, and secrets are being revealed, it becomes clear that the only way to survive is to rely on each other. Equal parts thrilling, clever, and just a little bit chaotic, this is a story about enemies, uneasy alliances, and the magic that happens when opposites collide.
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u/fatpinkchicken Dr PansyParkinson on AO3 6d ago
I'm trying to finish my George/Millicent married at first sight fic.
If you like dealing with grief and self-esteem, this is the fic for you. Low/no smut.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/68191281/chapters/176420071
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u/KiwiWestern2876 lunalive on ao3 3d ago
Another chapter of my Harry/Pansy secret child fic! Post-war, slow burn, enemies to lovers: https://archiveofourown.org/works/45814576/chapters/115297573