Fic Recs: All-time Favorites
I’ve been meaning to put together several fic recs because there are so many amazing writers out there. I started reading voraciously since end of November 2019, getting completely re-immersed into Harry Potter fanfiction, especially Harry/Ginny (which will make up about 99% of my recs). I haven’t read everything, but by god, I’ve read a lot and am excited to share some amazing stories. There are too many stories to rec in one post, so here are some of my all-time favorites!
Anything with an * is a WIP.
The Changeling by @annerbhp
Ginny is sorted into Slytherin. It takes her seven years to figure out why.
Armistice Series* by @annerbhp
The thing about war is that it never ends. Not really. The battlefields just change locations. Harry and Ginny after the war. (Sequel to The Changeling)
Bonus Materials for The Changeling and Armistice Series & Lucky* by @annerbhp
Because we’re lucky to receive multiple perspectives/missed moments/and an AU of The Changeling.
All right, be prepared to have your mind blow ten thousand ways. The Changeling and the Armistice Series are the pinnacle to fanfiction in my humble opinion. The themes. The themes. The nuance, the character develop, the exploration of the houses, events and circumstances that shape us but keep the core of us the same, the slowest of all slow burns, the absolutely magnetic attraction between Harry and Ginny, learning to accept who you are, feminism, house unity, realistic post-war politics and ramifications, everything that could have been in one amazing package. If I had one story (I’m counting all of these as one – bite me) with me on an island, this would be it. I could read it forever and ever, and still learn, laugh, and cry. Please read this and realize that Ginny should have been sorted to Slytherin and the epicness that would have ensued.
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Everything of @floreatcastellumposts, but my particularly favorites are the Harry/Ginny bits in Missing Hogwarts Moments, Slice of Life One-shots, and those only located on her tumblr
Okay, if I had to choose any writer whose writing reminds me the most of canon, whose writing makes me feel in my bones that I’m reading more of the actual series, who has completely spot-on characterizations, who expands my mind what these characters could have been feeling beyond the canon narrative, this is it. Flo has made me laugh, cry, feel all the feels, and desperately wish for more of the canon world, particularly Hinny.
I love her longer series, such as Not from Others, and still need to read the rest of her amazing work (it’s too good to read all at once, and better to spread out as wonderful gifts over time), but it’s really those stolen, happy, pining, angsty, loving moments of Harry and Ginny during Ootp, HBP, DH, and then post-DH that get me.
There are far, far too many to rec, so really just read everything, but my absolute, absolute favorites include:
Missing HBP moment – Harry trapped in a cupboard with Ginny for the first time
Missing HBP moment - Harry falls asleep being held
Realising – Harry realizes he loves Ginny
Safe – where Harry tells Ron and Hermione that he broke up with Ginny
Missing DH moment - Ron interrupts the kiss
Missing DH moment - Harry thinks about what could have happened with Ginny
Missing DH moment - Harry stares at Ginny’s dot
Drunk in Love – because who doesn’t love drunk!Harry?
Quizards on the Run – who doesn’t like a good pub trivia?
Aunt Marge's Even Bigger Mistake – yes, yes, because Ginny is the best
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gone was any trace of you by @annerbhp
An accident at work left Harry with a mysterious case of amnesia and a wife he couldn’t remember.
I have read this story so, so many times, and I still get emotional every time. Amnesia is one of my favorite tropes, but it’s very difficult to get just right in my opinion. Annerb works her magic once again, even managing to make Harry jealous of himself (an absolute favorite trope of mine).
Read it. Read it again. Read it always. I’m writing my own amnesia fic that was inspired by this one and Annerb’s pontificating on what if Ginny were the one with amnesia. Hope it can hold a candle to this gem.
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such a beautiful blank (but smooth it out) by Pocketfullof
Ginny picks a rose, and her world spins out of control.
I read this over ten years ago, when it was originally posted on LJ. It stayed with me all these years, and I was overjoyed to find it again. It fits the amnesia trope, but not in a conventional way. I love Ginny’s struggles with this, her loneliness, the exploration of the point of life, and the aching loneliness of missing someone who is right beside her.
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All right, I’m a bit of a perfectionist, and I also have way, way too many stories to rec that I can’t possibly fit them all in one post, but these are some of the stories I have reread too many times to count, and my love for them never, ever fades. That’s not to say I don’t absolutely love many more fics, but these hold a special place in my heart.
I’ll be breaking out the rest in additional future posts in which I group them by things like tropes (amnesia, friends with benefits, coffeeshop AU, muggle AU). Because I’m a weirdo and am overthinking this even though no one cares about my categorizations.
