FF Answers (was Re: FF question)

[heiditandy]

Tamara asked: 

> > Could someone suggest a good fanfic that would sort of take the 
> place 
> > of reading book 6? A fanfic that I can read while I wait (and 
wait 
> > and wait and wait) for book 6 that is v. well written? Thanks!


Helen posted a rec for After the End, as did someone else. While 
there are certainly commendable things about that story, let me give 
you notice that it is *not* a sixth year fic - it was primarily 
written between GoF and OotP, and it takes place in a post-book-
seven timeline. For a long time, SQ actually wouldn't host any AU 
fics, and for about nine months after OotP's release, they wouldn't 
host anything that took place after the post-OotP-summer, but in the 
last month or so, they've relaxed their rules a bit. 

If you're looking for fics that have been written since OotP, you 
can find a few hundred of them in FictionAlley's "Sorting" forum, 
especially at this url: 
http://www.fictionalley.org/fictionalleypark/forums/showthread.php?
s=&threadid=36180 - the most useful thing about the Sorting forum is 
that a fic doesn't have to be hosted on FictionAlley to be listed; a 
number of authors who don't want to post their fics in multiple 
locations add them to the Sorting's "databases" anyway. 


Also, last fall, I wrote an article for Movie Magic Magazine (they 
contacted me, totally out of the blue, last October) with a number 
of fanfic recs - some of the ones I originally included didn't make 
it into the article, but the whole thing is now up here: 
http://www.fictionalley.org/MovieMagic.html - Ari O's fic is a post-
5th-year, as is Cassandra Claire's terrifically funny Draco-and-
Ginny fic A LOT TO BE UPSET ABOUT, which is at 
http://www.astronomytower.org/cgi-bin/links/jump.cgi?ID=10786 and 
features CAPSLOCK!Harry (aka a Harry who yells a lot, like in OotP). 

Sam's fics, which are linked to from that article, are universally 
brilliant, especially is much-lauded Stealing Harry, which is now at 
http://www.schnoogle.com/authorLinks/Samvimes/Stealing_Harry/ - it's 
an alternate universe that explores what could have happened if 
Remus had stopped Sirius before he found Peter. The sequel is 
currently a work in progress, and regularly posted on Sam's 
livejournal - there are links from the end of Stealing Harry to it, 
but since you shouldn't read it without reading SH, I won't post the 
links here; anyone who wants them can email me. 

Hopefully, you'll find some good fics among those recs. 



Heidi
(also an admin at FictionAlley)