Welcome to Our Archive
Welcome to the collection of original works and conversations created from 1999 until December 2019 by the Harry Potter For Grownups fandom community. For the on-going conversations please join us on groups.io.
First hosted on Yahoo! Clubs, then eGroups, and then finally Yahoo! Groups, the fangroup’s mailing lists, files, and photos have been preserved here. Our group is documented on fanlore.org as well as by our own Penny Linsenmayer and Cindy C. in Harry Potter for GrownUps: A History. Here are one and two screen captures taken on the final days of Yahoo! Groups.
The available archives are listed in the following table.
Name | Number of Posts | Files | DTables | Photos | Group Summary |
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HPforGrownups |
Main group |
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HPforGrownups-Archives |
Original main group from Yahoo! Club |
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HP4GU-FAQ |
Mod subgroup for creating FAQ writeups |
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HPFGU-Movie |
Movie subgroup |
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HPFGU-OTChatter |
Off topic discussions |
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the_old_crowd |
Subgroup of the HPFGU founders |
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HP4GU-OTEvents |
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HPforGrownupsChatScripts |
Group member live chats |
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HPFGU-Announcements |
News worthy items in the wizarding community |
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HPFGU-Feedback |
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HP4GU-California |
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HPFGU-Texas |
Localized HPFGU discussions |
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HPFGU-London |
London convention talk |
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HPFGU-NewYork |
Convention talk |
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HPFGU-Catalogue |
Early preservation and catagorization activity |
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HPforGrownups-Graphics |
Select Group Descriptions
HPforGrownups
Until September 2019, the HPforGrownups group on Yahoo! Groups hosted the core conversations on Harry Potter cannon and, at the time, predictions of the unwritten cannon. The list’s high traffic limited nearly all off-topic conversations. As a celebration to reaching 10 years as an Internet community, however, we celebrated in a rare "Are We Really This Old?" series of off-topic posts by members sharing how we found each other. The HPFGU A History in addition to the complete background of the group also references many posts available here and the supplemental HPforGrownups-Archive.
At the time of the group’s scheduled deletion by Yahoo! on 14 December 2019, the group reached 26,372 members.
Technical Note
Throughout the HPforGrownups archive as well as its subgroups, URLs may reference a particular post using its number. Since the original list contained gaps that were closed during the archival process, a spreadsheet (1.4M) is available to assist in this conversion. Alternatively, a processed version of the full email list in numbered files (using the original numberings) is also available to download (123M).
Each message in this primary and supplemental HPforGrownups-Archive has been prepended with the tag HPFGUIDX followed by a number (or C+number) in order to use Google to find any referenced message.
HPforGrownups-Archive
For a short time from 1999 until 2000, the HPFGU mailing list was hosted on Yahoo! Clubs prior to its transition to eGroups. Since the transition did not offer any migration path, group members preserved the messages at the time. The messages have been preserved here and use a C to prepend its HPFGUIDX number.
HPFGU-FAQ
This subgroup consolidated well reasoned posts and frequently recurring topics into articles and FAQs.
the_old_crowd
As the size of the main HPFGU group exploded with members and threads, this sister group formed for off- and on-topic, behind-the-scenes conversions among founding members.
HPFGU-Catalogue
The HPFGU-Catalog was an early attempt by a small number of members to group and classify the main group’s individual posts into various categories.