Harry Potter is the fandom I keep going back to — the constant that’s always there, no matter how many new fandoms I dip my toe into. Harry/Draco is my original OTP, and it’s followed me through the years. I’ve read practically every H/D classic there is, beginning with Rhysenn’s Irresistible Poison in 2002.
I still remember huddling in my school’s computer lab back then, waiting for new chapters, re-reading the chapters that had already passed, stalking the mailing list for cookies and reading everyone’s speculations about what was going to happen next.
After Deathly Hallows, it seems that canon’s closed, especially with the dreaded epilogue, and that the fic is dying down. The last run of hd_holidays at the end of 2012 also brought with it a sense of finality — what would happen to our beloved pairing, especially with the dreaded epilogue? Aja’s H/D revival post in 2009 (has it already been four years?) brought with it much nostalgia — and a pleasant shock when I realised I could identify every single fic on the list, having read most of them multiple times.
But is back the only way to look? For a while, it seemed to me that the answer was yes. There were some new fic and authors writing H/D fic (and the Fest exchanges were probably the best place you’d hope to get a good 50k fic waiting for you), but the real epics, the 100k and beyond, the ones so thick and meaty it will take a good few hours to sink your teeth into — I’d given up this battle for lost.
So imagine my surprise when over the weekend, I stumbled across not just one, but two epics that made me weep with how perfect the world-building was, and give me hope that there was indeed life beyond Deathly Hallows.
