Gender-Flipped Harry Potter

Over the summer, I drew 206 illustrations for Gender-Flipped Harry Potter. I'm now posting them up on Tumblr. Captions may contain spoilers for later parts of the series; for example, a caption for a Philosopher's Stone picture might refer to something that happens in Prisoner of Azkaban.

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Epilogue: "Nineteen Years Later"  It is nineteen years later, and all of our friends are taking their children to King's Cross station so that they can go to school.  Harriet and Dude Ginny's three children are Jane Sagitta, Alba Severine (which I actually think is much better than Albus Severus, as it doesn't have two names in a row that end in "us"), and Liam Luther, while Lady Ron and Horatio's children are Dude Rose and Lady Hugo.  Drusa Malfoy is also there with her daughter, Lady Scorpius.  It is Alba's first year, and she is worried about being put in Slytherin; Harriet reassures her that Slytherin is not so bad and that she has a choice.  And so it all ends happily.

I've covered the gender issues I wished to mention in the individual chapters.

And that's the end of Gender-Flipped Harry Potter!  Thanks for reading and/or following.  I hope it has been entertaining and at least mildly thought-provoking.

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Chapter Thirty-Five: "King's Cross"  Harriet winds up in limbo, which bears a striking resemblance to King's Cross, where she meets up with Alba Dumbledore.  Dumbledore explains everything, including why Harriet is not dead.

Chapter Thirty-Six: "The Flaw in the Plan"  When Harriet wakes up, Dude Narcissa checks to see if she is dead (by, among other things, putting his hands up her shirt, which is a lot creepier when gender-flipped) and lies and says that she is not.  The Death Eaters triumphantly return to the castle, where Lady Neville continues to defy them and kills Dude Nagini, proving that she is probably the coolest person of all time.  The battle then breaks out again, with Harriet's friends and allies acquitting themselves well; many take on Death Eaters, and Dude Molly kills Dude Bellatrix after shouting, "Not my son, you bastard!"  Harriet then reveals that she is still alive and finally defeats Lady Voldemort.  The war has come to a close.

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Chapter Thirty-Three: "The Prince's Tale"  Harriet looks at Severine Snape's memories and learns that she and Harriet's father, Liam, were good friends as children.  Snape fell in love with Liam, but she called him a Mudblood and ruined their friendship.   She then turned to the dark side, but she eventually rejoined Dumbledore in order to attempt to save Liam's life and, after he died, to protect Harriet for her.  Harriet also learns that she must die in order to defeat Lady Voldemort.  I think that Snape would be differently perceived in a gender-flipped series.  While many readers see Severus Snape's long-standing love for Lily as admirable, I feel that Severine Snape's long-standing love for Liam would be more likely to be seen as pathetic. 

Chapter Thirty-Five: "The Forest Again"  Harriet heads into the forest to die, telling no one what she is doing.  There, she uses the Resurrection Stone and is greeted by shades of Jane, Liam, Sagitta, and Lady Lupin, who promise to stay with her.  She then encounters Lady Voldemort, who uses the Avada Kedavra curse.

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Chapter Thirty-One: "The Battle of Hogwarts"  The battle between good and evil rages at Hogwarts.  Lady Fred is killed; the shocked Priscilla, who has just reconciled with her family, and Lady Ron kneel by her body.

Chapter Thirty-Two: "The Elder Wand"  Lady Voldemort kills Severine Snape, believing that this will make her master of the elder wand.  The trio arrives as Snape is dying; she gives Harriet her memories and begs Harriet to look at her.

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Chapter Twenty-Nine: "The Lost Diadem"  The trio returns to Hogwarts and finds that Dumbledore's Army has been operating as a resistance organization, led by Lady Neville.  The group has been hiding out in the Room of Requirement.  DA members who have graduated soon begin to turn up to join in the fight.  From left: Lady Michael, Dude Parvati, Dude Padma, Lady Neville, Lady Seamus, Lady Fred, Lady George

Chapter Thirty: "The Sacking of Severine Snape"  The professors are prepared to join in the fighting as well.  Dude McGonagall, backed by Dude Sprout and Lady Flitwick, duels with Severine Snape, who has been headmistress all year, but Snape escapes the castle.  I chose the name Severine for its similarity to Severus.

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Chapter Twenty-Seven: "The Final Hiding Place"  Harriet, Lady Ron, and Horatio escape from Gringotts on a dragon and jump off the dragon's back into a lake.

Chapter Twenty-Eight: "The Missing Mirror"  The trio goes to Hogsmeade and meets Lady Aberforth, Alba Dumbledore's younger sister.  They find that she has been watching them through Sagitta's mirror and helping them when necessary.  Lady Aberforth tells the trio the story of what happened between her, Alba, their younger brother Dude Ariana, and Lady Grindelwald.

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Chapter Twenty-Five: "Shell Cottage"  Everyone spends some time at Shell Cottage.  One night, Lady Lupin arrives to announce that she has just given birth to a daughter; Harriet, Lady Bill, and Luther, among others, congratulate her.  Wizarding obstetrics must be really great to get Lady Lupin out and about so soon!  Alternatively, Lady Lupin comes to announce that her husband, Dude Tonks, has given birth, Harriet comes around to accept mpreg, and Luther is excited because he always knew that such things were possible.

Chapter Twenty-Six: "Gringotts"  The trio, along with the goblin Lady Griphook, attempts to carry out a plan to break into the Lestrange family vault at Gringotts.  Horatio uses Polyjuice potion to pose as Dude Bellatrix, while Lady Ron takes on a fake identity and Harriet wears the invisibility cloak.  In Diagon Alley, they meet the Death Eater Lady Travers and try to act natural.

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Chapter Twenty-Three: "Malfoy Manor"  Harriet, Lady Ron, and Horatio are captured by Snatchers and taken to Malfoy Manor, home of Lady Lucius, Dude Narcissa, and Drusa.  There, Dude Bellatrix notices that they have the sword of Gryffindor, which he believed to be in his Gringotts vault, and panics; he tortures Horatio to try to find out how they got it.  Harriet and Lady Ron are placed in a dungeon, but they manage to escape and do battle; Dude Bellatrix, however, threatens to kill Horatio, and the two girls are left in a tense position. Fortunately,  Lady Dobby comes to their rescue; sadly, she is killed.

Chapter Twenty: "The Wandmaker"  The group escapes to Shell Cottage, home of Lady Bill and Dude Fleur.  There, Harriet, Lady Ron, and Lady Dean, who was also captive at the Manor, dig a grave for Lady Dobby.

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Chapter Twenty-One: "The Tale of the Three Sisters"  Xenophilia tells the trio the story behind the Deathly Hallows.  The three also investigate Luther's bedroom and find that he has painted pictures of his friends--Harriet, Lady Ron, Horatio, Dude Ginny, and Lady Neville--on the ceiling.  Luther himself, however, is mysteriously absent.  He has been kidnapped by the Death Eaters, and Xenophilia hopes to turn Harriet over to them in order to get him back.  The trio barely escapes.

Chapter Twenty-Two: "The Deathly Hallows"  Back on the run, Harriet, Lady Ron, and Horatio listen to Potterwatch on the radio. 

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Chapter Nineteen: "The Silver Stag"  While keeping watch one night, Harriet sees a silver stag patronus and follows it into the woods, where she finds the sword of Gryffindor in a frozen lake.  She dives for the sword but is choked by the locket horcrux.  Luckily, Lady Ron shows up to rescue her!  Harriet offers Lady Ron the opportunity to destroy the horcrux, and she does, although it taunts her by producing an image of Harriet and Horatio kissing.  The horcrux destroyed, Harriet and Lady Ron return to camp for what is, in my opinion, the single most startling moment in the gender-flipped series.  Horatio, angry at all that Lady Ron has put him through, "start[s] punching every part of [her] that [he] could reach."  This would NEVER fly in the gender-flipped series--Horatio would be perceived as violent and abusive--but it's not considered a big deal in the original.

Chapter Twenty: "Xenophilia Lovegood"  The trio decides to visit Luther's mother, Xenophilia Lovegood, in order to question her about a mysterious symbol.  I simply changed the ending of Xenophilius's name.

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Chapter Seventeen: "Berthold's Secret"  In Gurda's Hollow, Harriet and Horatio encounter magical historian Berthold Bagshot, who knew both the Dumbledores and the Potters.  When they follow him home, however, it turns out that his body is possessed by Dude Nagini, Lady Voldemort's snake.  The two barely escape.  I chose the name Berthold for its old-fashioned sound.

Chapter Eighteen: "The Life and Lies of Alba Dumbledore"  Harriet reads Roscoe Skeeter's book, "The Life and Lies of Alba Dumbledore," and learns that Dumbledore was once best friends with the dark witch Lady Grindelwald, who was the girl whom Harriet saw stealing a wand.  Harriet is shocked and angry.

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Chapter Fifteen: "The Goblin's Revenge"  Lady Ron is having difficulty coping with the uncertainty of their quest; she and Harriet get in a furious fight, while Horatio cries and tries to get them to stop.  Eventually, however, Lady Ron leaves.  The trio has been broken.

Chapter Sixteen: "Gurda's Hollow"  Now alone, Harriet and Horatio decide to go to Gurda's Hollow, where Harriet was born.  They take Polyjuice potion to look like random Muggles and lay flowers on Harriet's parents' grave.  I chose the name Gurda for its old-fashioned sound, and I chose Jane and Liam for the senior Potters mostly because of their sound.

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Chapter Thirteen: "The Muggle-Born Registration Commission"  Although Harriet, Lady Ron, and Horatio get the locket, the Ministry becomes aware of their presence, and they must flee.  Impeding them are Lady Yaxley, a Death Eater who works at the Ministry, and Dude Mary Cattermole, the husband of the real Lady Reg Cattermole.

Chapter Fourteen: "The Thief"  Once they have escaped the Ministry, Harriet has a vision of Lady Voldemort's mind.  In it, she sees a young woman stealing a wand.

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Chapter Eleven: "The Bribe"  Lady Lupin shows up at Grimmauld Place.  She announces that she is going to have a baby and that she wants to join the trio on their mission.  Harriet doesn't like this idea at all, as she thinks that Lady Lupin is abandoning her responsibilities to her husband and unborn child.  The two fight as Lady Ron and Horatio nervously watch.  This plot really doesn't work gender-flipped, as Harry's original main concern is that Lupin is abandoning his unborn child, which is pretty hard to do if you're pregnant.  I suppose that Harriet could think that Lady Lupin was being reckless with the child's safety by trying to join a dangerous mission.  Alternatively, one of my friends suggested that this could be an mpreg storyline and that Harriet is angry because she doesn't believe in mpreg.  I rather like this explanation.

Chapter Twelve: "Magic is Might"  Having discovered that Davor Umbridge has the real locket horcrux, the trio decides to infiltrate the Ministry and take it.  They use Polyjuice potion to do so: Harriet becomes Lady Albert Runcorn, Horatio becomes Dude Mafalda Hopkirk, and Lady Ron becomes Lady Reg Cattermole.

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Chapter Nine: "A Place To Hide"  Harriet, Lady Ron, and Horatio escape the wedding and hide out in a Muggle cafe with Harriet under the invisibility cloak.  There they have a run-in with Death Eaters Lady Dolohov and Lady Rowle.  The trio is confused as to how the Death Eaters found them.

Chapter Ten: "Kreacher's Tale"  Now hiding out at Grimmauld Place, the trio finds a picture of Lady Regulus, Sagitta's younger sister, and realizes that she is the mysterious R.A.B who took the locket horcrux.  Kreacher, whose name I have retained as is, tells them of how Lady Regulus was a hero.

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Chapter Seven: "The Will of Alba Dumbledore"  It's Harriet's seventeenth birthday, and Lady Ron gives her a copy of "Twelve Fail-Safe Ways to Charm Wizards."  The trio then learns that Alba Dumbledore has left them some mysterious bequests.  I chose the name Alba because it sounds like Albus.

Chapter Eight: "The Wedding"  Lady Bill and Dude Fleur get married.  Everyone looks beautiful, and it's a happy occasion--until Lady Kingsley's patronus appears to announce that the Ministry has fallen.

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Chapter Five: "Fallen Warrior"  After doing battle with Death Eaters, Harriet and Lady Hagrid arrive at their safe location: the home of Dude Tonks's parents, Dude Andromeda and Lady Ted.  The two are worried about their son.

Chapter Six: "The Ghoul in Pyjamas"  At the Burrow, Harriet, Lady Ron, and Horatio discuss the dangers they are facing and the death of Lady Moody.  Horatio starts to cry, and Lady Ron comforts him.  Horatio is not a man who is afraid to cry.