saw your tags on the ao3 experience post, what pairing was the harry potter fic for and what do you remember about it?
Okay, so the first fic I ever read was mainly gen, for like 100k and then Draco came out of the Forbidden Forest and kissed Harry and I was like “Huh? I guess that works? Let’s go out and find a million more fics like that!”
I think I came across it in ... approximately 2005? Definitely before 2007, by that time I was writing my own fic (never published, no need to go looking for it^^°). I think I was trying to find some theories or something for the next book and clicked on something that sounded interesting and that turned out to be a fic!
I’m pretty sure it was posted on fanfiction.net and for some reason I believe the author was male, or at least the pen name made me think of a male author? But that might be completely wrong^^° The title was either Latin, or something that sounded like it should have been Latin - something like House of the Badger or something like that? Definitely something like “Something of something” (and that’s a lot of somethings, sorry^^°) It was definitely an epic, possibly a continuation post Order of the Phoenix, though I’m not entirely sure about that? I don’t remember any details unfortunately but for that scene of Draco coming out of the Forbidden Forest and him and Harry embracing and I think kissing, and that that happened near the end of the fic as it existed? The Drarry part of it all didn’t get much more than that I think, even though I was so intrigued!!
It was a longer fic I believe, at least in memory I want to say it was in the 100k range, though I can’t say for sure any more! It was either already a series or otherwise definitely planned as a series, I think there were four books planned? They definitely didn’t get finished while I still had a functioning link, I think they might have even been abandoned before I started reading (guess why I stick to completed fics 99,9% of the time now?^^° Burnt by my very first fic!)
I think that’s all I remember for that fic! If it rings any bells, please let me know!!!
If I’m already talking about old Harry Potter fic(s), I’ve also been looking for some fics that I think were all by the same author - all Harry/various male characters fics. I think they were almost single handedly responsible for me having read a fic for Harry/just about every single named male character of the series^^° I definitely remember a Harry/Cormac McLaggen fic and a Harry/Marcus Flint fic. I think the author might have been doing some sort of challenge to write many ships? I thought it might have been shocolate (the spelling doesn’t seem quite right) at some point but I think I didn’t find them amongst their fics when I looked.
And finally, there was a Harry/Romilda Vane fic that was really different from what I usually read, but really fun!
If any of that rings any bells for anyone, I’d love to know but really, give me any of your fic recs; I’ve not read HP fic in too long!