harrypotter

Welcome to

harrypotter, a community for Harry Potter fans! Posts of fanwork, discussion, fic searches, resources, event promotion, and promotion of new Dreamwidth-based HP communities are welcome.

The Rules | Promotion Banner (Place-holder Link) | ( Template for Event Promotion )
‡ Link List of Non-Dreamwidth HP Resources, Archives, Etc. (Place-holder Link)

‡ ( Masterlist of HP Communities on Dreamwidth )

femmefest_mod

Link:

femmefest

Description: An exchange fest with a Harry Potter femmeslash theme.

Sign-up date/deadline: Sign ups have already begun, and will close on February 6.

Due date: Assignments will be due on April 2.

Posting date: I hope to start posting April 6!

Type of Media Accepted: Fanfiction and fanart that must be centered on a female/female relationship.

alternate1985

Sorting! Be voted, via application process, into one of the four houses. Games! Contests! House points! Exclusive common room-style sub-comms! Sounds awesome, right? Then help get this community off the ground. Advertise if interested. :)

SORTING | RULES | FAQ
ADMINISTRATION CONTACT | APPLY

After not seeing an active Harry Potter community here on Dreamwidth (and dying a little on the inside), Headmistress Ari set out to create one!
Welcome potential applicants to Enchanted Elite. You get one chance to make it in (because what's the fun if you don't have a little bit of a challenge). We aim to have loads of fun activities, lots of conversations (I mean, we have Pottermore to look forward to), and other things as time goes on.
Join in the fun, be part of the experience. We hope to see you get sorted!

We currently do not have any house heads, once we get a bit of a memberbase in each house, we will be holding elections.

FIRST TERM START DATE IS CURRENTLY TBA! PLEASE TELL YOUR FRIENDS TO JOIN SO WE CAN GET THIS COMMUNITY OFF THE GROUND!

boundbooks

If you need to reach the admins of

harrypotter, leave a comment to this post with a description of the issue or question.

All comments are screened.

memories_child

Hello!

azurelunatic's given me permission to post this here, so I hope it's ok with all of you. I'm actually hoping for a favour: I'm writing a paper on Pottermore, which I'll be presenting at the Magic is Might conference in July. I'm specifically looking at Pottermore and participatory culture and was hoping to conduct some email interviews with Harry Potter fans who are also on Pottermore. I thought I'd give you a bit of information about my research and how the interviews will be conducted, and if anyone is interested in taking part you could PM me to let me know. Thanks in advance!

About the project
In June 2011, a website appeared containing J.K. Rowling’s signature and the words ‘Pottermore: Coming Soon.’ As new details came to light, Pottermore was revealed to be a free, collaborative website in which fans would be able to find extra-textual information on characters and places, upload artwork, be sorted into houses, buy ebooks and connect with the series on a much more interactive level. Yet not everyone is convinced of the benefits the site may have.

The purpose of the study is to examine the role that Pottermore might play in shaping canon, fans’ relationships with the text, and participatory culture itself. This paper seeks to examine the impact that Pottermore may have on Harry Potter fandom by addressing existing notions of what participatory culture means, conducting an analysis of the site’s content and questioning fans on their fan activities on and outside of Pottermore. The interview questions will concentrate on your involvement in the Harry Potter fandom and your experience of Pottermore. The interview will take place via email and will comprise of approximately ten main questions, with the potential for further questions to be asked based on your initial answers.

Email responses to question will be stored in a password-protected folder on a password-protected computer belong to myself. Any hard copies or electronic copies on CD, external drive or USB stick will be stored in a locked filing cabinet in my home office. The data will be kept for five years on completion of the project (estimated to be by July 2012).

Participation in this research project is voluntary. You may decline to answer any of the questions and you may withdraw at any time during the data collection period. No physical or psychological risks are anticipated as a result of participating in this project.

Your name and any identifying information will be held confidential, except when legislation or a professional code of conduct requires that the information you provide be reported. Your identity will only be known to myself, unless you consent for your name to be used to refer to you and attribute direct quotes in all conference papers and publications based on this research. You may chose a pseudonym at any time during the data collection process should you prefer for your identity to be withheld. Keep in mind that full anonymity cannot be guaranteed. It is possible that friends, acquaintances or members of the same fan community who read a publication or attend a conference presentation could identify you based on contextual information.

If you have any questions regarding this study, or would like additional information to assist you in reaching a decision about taking part in the interview, please contact me by PM.

arobynsung

hp_diversity is a community that welcomes posting of fanfiction, fanart, recs, discussion of characters of color from the Harry Potter fandom. The community exists to perpetually increase the volume of diversity in HP fandom.

All genres welcome- including but not limited to: gen, het, slash, & femmeslash fanwork.

arobynsung

Beta finding community for Harry Potter fandom at

hp_betas_wanted.
All fanworks welcome with a focus on fanfiction.

Both beta requests and offers are welcome :)

Posting is open!

We're on LJ as well :)

hp_betas_wanted

boundbooks

A little while ago there was a request for feedback on the concept for the community, but I failed to do the most obvious thing: make a poll!

General Concept

Make

harrypotter a general discussion/info/meta/announcement community that allowed for cross-community promotion and event promotion.

harrypotter would be a 'bulletin board' for HP fans on DW.

A Sticky Directory of HP on DW

At the top of the community would be a sticky post with a 'Master List' of all communities on DW for HP. It would be organized similarly to this DW F/F Links List on

girlgay.

Non-replication of Existing Communities

I don't see any need for this community to replicate what other communities on DW do. There's already a community for general fanworks (

hp_fanfiction), and there's one for fanart (

hp_fanart), and there's all kind of little ones for things like ships and slash and femmeslash, and even

hp_add_me for things like finding other Harry Potter fans. As a result, the tagging system would be more general.

Tags

There could be tags for fanfiction, fanart, discussion, and promo, but not deeply extensive shipping and character ones like at

hp_fanfiction. Tags might look like the following: media: fiction; media: art; event: exchange; event: fest; event: friending meme

Cross-community Promotion

Like

fandom_on_dw, we could have two templates for posting/advertising:
1) a template for a new DW community that's HP-related
2) a template for an HP event/exchange

Communities would have to be on DW. If you have a community dedicated to Minvera's Hats on LJ, you couldn't advertise it here, because, hey, we're all on DW and not on LJ.

HOWEVER, if you were running a fest dedicated to Minerva's Hats on your Minerva's Hats community, you could advertise it, because a one-shot event is something that's relatively easy to participate in across journaling platforms.

If there was demand for it, we could also have a post, which was linked in the master sticky-list, where non-DW general HP communities could advertise.

Poll #9159 Community Feedback on Plan
This poll is closed.
This poll is anonymous.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 6

The proposed plan for the community

View Answers

Should be implemented as-is
6 (100.0%)

Should be implemented with changes (please leave a comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
0 (0.0%)

(Other; please comment)
0 (0.0%)

(Poll format shamelessly stolen from

dw_suggestions)

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otterandferret | FAQ | 2012 AO3 Collection Profile

Description: Otter and Ferret is an annual Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy gift exchange. Participants submit prompts and create a 1,000+ word story tailored to one or more of another participant's prompts. Gifts are created anonymously, and then shared with the community.

Sign-ups: January 15 - January 30

Works Revealed: April 28

Link:

otterandferret on Dreamwidth and 2012 AO3 Collection Profile.

bethbethbeth

(thanks to boundbooks for permission to post this notice)

The fifth round of

hp_beholder will be getting underway soon!

HP Beholder is a Fic & Art exchange that was created to focus on relationships featuring those HP characters who rarely feature in fanworks because some less-than-discerning people think they're unappealing. For background information relating to the creation of this Fic/Art Exchange, please see the original general information post

For the most current information, please click here to read the 2012 HP Beholder rules and guidelines.

Note: for the 2012 edition, the following timeline will be used:

Sign-ups begin - Thursday, January 26

Sign-ups end - Friday, February 3

Assignments get sent out - Monday, February 6

Submission Deadline - Thursday, March 30

Posting Starts - Thursday, April 12

Join the community (on InsaneJournal or watch on the LiveJournal mirror community to keep up to date with all HP Beholder news and notices.

And feel free to share this information with your f'lists; we'd love to have as many of you participate as possible.

boundbooks

Two Draco Malfoy/Hermione Granger fanart recs from D/Hr Advent 2011 (

dhr_advent), which is posting work through December 24th:

[Art] Christmas Tree by

nejna
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy
Characters: Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger
Summary: Decorating christmas tree is a part of Christmas Eve, but it isn't a work for one, no matter what Hermione thinks...

[Art] A Perfect Snowman Can't Go Naked by

riptey
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy
Characters: Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy, A snowman, A scarf
Summary: When it was done, he decided that it simply had to have a scarf: the scarf was not optional. They had to use Hermione's, but he promised to buy her a new one.

r_grayjoy

We're halfway through December already; can you believe it?!

Some absolutely amazing fic and art has been posted to Kinky Kristmas so far. Sadly, reading/viewing/commenting already seems to be dropping off a bit this year. However! A roundup of the pieces posted during the first two weeks is here below the cut for your catching-up convenience. :D

Do yourselves and the fantastic authors and artists a favor -- set aside some reading/viewing time soon. And once you're caught up, be sure to keep watching; some of the very best stuff has yet to be posted!

( Kinky Kristmas Weeks 1 and 2 Roundup )

boundbooks

For Harry Potter fans interested in the ebooks, Pottermore is running a survey asking for things like likelyhood of purchase, where you buy your ebooks, what devices you own, and what would make you not buy (I put down 'the presence of DRM').

If you're interested in giving some feedback, here's a link to the Pottermore blog post:

Like reading Harry Potter? Take part in our survey

boundbooks

Just a quick reminder post about my request for community input on the direction of

harrypotter! I'd love to hear from you! :D

boundbooks

D/Hr Advent December 1st - December 24th: Twenty-four days of art and fiction.

On Dreamwidth | On LiveJournal

D/Hr Advent has invited twenty-four authors and artists to create a short Draco Malfoy/Hermione Granger one-shot or work of fanart. Starting on December 1st, one work will be revealed each day through December 24th.

starlady

The Aurors Prompt-Fest is open for signups and prompts!!

Are you fan of cop dramas on TV? Is Mad-Eye Moody one of your favorite Harry Potter characters? Ever wish the series had chucked Quidditch in favor of more Defense Against the Dark Arts?

Then you would like The Aurors, the TV show that, alas, never existed. Except here, in fanfic form! This is a prompt meme inspired by that fan "trailer," for readers and writers who would love to see a grittier, more adult Harry Potter, focused on the men and women (and possibly some non-humans, too) who defend both the wizarding and Muggle worlds against evil magic.

Signups are open now; close on December 8th at 8 p.m. EST; stories are due by the same time on January 8th, and will be opened for reading on the 9th. They'll be anonymous to begin with; author reveal will follow a week later.

boundbooks

harrypotter community!

I'm one of the co-admins for this community. I know that this is one of the oldest Harry Potter communities on Dreamwidth, and I'd like to see it become a neat community for HP fans. :)

I wanted to ask you for feedback about the shape of this community, and what you think it should do. I cobbled together a loose concept, based on comments from the post on late October.

Existing HP Communities on DW
DW will probably always be smaller than LJ, so I don't see any need for this community to replicate what other communities on DW do.

There's already a community for general fanworks (

hp_fanfiction), and there's one for fanart (

hp_fanart), and there's all kind of little ones for things like ships and slash and femmeslash, and even

hp_add_me for things like finding other harry potter fans.

Directory of HP on DW
What DW doesn't have is a directory of all the HP-focused communities and fests/exchanges on DW, nor a space to do targeted HP community/event promotion, nor discuss HP things in general, nor run friending memes and the like.

My broad concept for the community would be something with a giant stickied post with a 'Master List' of all communities on DW for HP (organization would be something that would need to be hashed out) at the top of the community.

Thoughts for how to organize it?

( Further thoughts )

General Concept
So, the idea would be to have a general discussion/info/meta/'hey I did something cool' community, that also allowed for cross-community promotion and event promotion, where

harrypotter would be a 'bulletin board' for HP fans on DW, which I think would fit a community that's got as general a name as

harrypotter

Feedback, comments, suggestions, thoughts are all welcome! I'll probably let this post float for a week, and asking for feedback, before doing anything to specifically change the goals/purpose of the community. :)

boundbooks

hp_prisonerfest: "An anonymous exchange for authors to write about Harry Potter characters in a prisoner style situation."

Sign-ups end today! The community will be mirrored on DW and LJ, but sign-ups are over on the LJ post.

azurelunatic

Since it might be handy to have these things all in one place, IMDB links for all the movies:

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 1)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 2)

boundbooks

Normally, I would not have made this post, and instead contacted the mod. Unfortunately,

jen does not appear to have any public posts on their journal, and has Private Messaging turned off.

Does anyone know what this community was intended to do, or have any ideas for it?

As far as HP stuff on DW goes, there's got to be some kind of void in HP fandom that this community could fill.

As far as I know, there isn't a community dedicated to promoting HP communities, but I'm not sure people would want one. Any ideas, other people out there who are members of

harrypotter? :)

edit - Suggestions

Occasional tasteful promotion
Directory of HP things
People's favorite fics
Pottermore chat

Fanfiction
Harry Potter discussion
Directory
art

social bookmarking tags for HP fanfic!