The Ultimate Guide to Harry Potter Fanfiction
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Smile_its_Elli
Ongoing, First published Feb 28, 2016
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This is THE ULTIMATE GUIDE to Harry Potter fanfictions. Here, you will learn the dos and don'ts of the wizarding world, and how to handle your fanfiction in a way worthy of Rowling herself. You can learn to avoid cliches, think creatively, and make your readers forget they're reading a fanfiction at all, which is the goal. 

Hi, I'm Ellie, and I may not be JKR, and my word is not law, I have quite a bit of experience writing fanfiction. I will be the first to admit, too, that some of my earlier works are as cliche as Harry Potter having a twin sister, and there's no shame in that! Just be glad you can learn from your mistakes, and mine, and be prepared for a couple of laughs along the way!

Warning: This is NOT a rant book. I don't just say what I think is wrong with fanfics, I give suggestions to make them better. Very rarely will I let my emotions control what I'm writing in this book. Feel free to rant within the comments, but don't expect me to do the same!
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The One Everyone Calls Crazy by marauders_NSFW
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Being the twins sister of James Potter isn't easy, everything has always been about HIM. It doesn't matter what I like or what I want to do, the world is supposed to revolve around James.... Or at least it is when we're at school. When we're at home James is the sweet, loving, caring brother our parents Fleamont and Euphemia Potter. His biggest excuse as to why he's mean to me at school? I dress weird! The biggest question is, can I find someone who wants to be with me given my 'weird' clothing tastes, and my obnoxious brother. All chapters with this mark: • in the chapter title have a sex scene in them! *I do NOT own any characters from the HP series. They belong to Warner Brothers and JKR* **** TRIGGER WARNING: This book has chapters about infertility and pregnancy loss, if these subjects are a sensitive topic for you please be weary reading this book! I want to bring real life struggles into my books, they're meant to be semi-realistic, no two couples are the same and this is a real struggle couples face every day.****
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***Completed*** 337k words **Some 18+ content! consider this your official warning!** When Violet steps onto the Hogwarts Express for the first time she meets three boys. A pair of twins and their new friend. But everything goes wrong when she's sorted into a different house than her new friends. Follow Violet on her journey through loss, gain, new friendships, family issues, puberty, but most importantly her Hogwarts experience! PLEASE NOTE!!! This is fanfiction. Many of the characters, settings, and lore do not belong to me! ALSO!! some of the story is based on imagines and things I've read on Tumblr over the years. just a little fyi LAST THING!!!! 18+ scenes occur when characters are 18+! I do NOT write that kind of stuff about minors!!!!!
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