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

HPforGrownups

190,201

435

11

yes

Main group

HPforGrownups-Archives

7,818

40

yes

Original main group from Yahoo! Club

HP4GU-FAQ

2,520

259

9

yes

Mod subgroup for creating FAQ writeups

HPFGU-Movie

17,318

7

2

yes

Movie subgroup

HPFGU-OTChatter

41,079

56

3

yes

Off topic discussions

the_old_crowd

5,147

12

5

yes

Subgroup of the HPFGU founders

HP4GU-OTEvents

65

2

HPforGrownupsChatScripts

62

132

Group member live chats

HPFGU-Announcements

1,334

2

yes

News worthy items in the wizarding community

HPFGU-Feedback

1,012

30

yes

HP4GU-California

671

6

yes

HPFGU-Texas

312

Localized HPFGU discussions

HPFGU-London

759

17

yes

London convention talk

HPFGU-NewYork

324

10

yes

Convention talk

HPFGU-Catalogue

2,872

21

8

yes

Early preservation and catagorization activity

HPforGrownups-Graphics

55

545

yes

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.