Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2023: Week 6
All The Young Dudes is a Harry Potter fic by MsKingBean89.
It is a canon divergent fic that fills in the Marauders timeline and is focused on Wolfstar (Sirius Black/Remus Lupin), spanning from their arrival to Hogwarts and all the way until the events of Order of the Phoenix & Deathly Hallows and is a total of 526,969 words long (188 chapters).
In April 2021, it became the first English work on Archive of Our Own to reach 2 million hits. It currently (as of February 2023) has more than 9 million hits, making it the fanwork with the highest hit count on AO3. It also holds the highest number of comments and kudos in the fandom.
Many fans, especially Gen Z fans, consider it their canon version of the Marauders and some prefer to consider ATYD-influenced Marauder fandom as separate from regular Harry Potter fandom, particularly as it rose to fame after Rowling's controversial statements about trans people and fans' subsequent desire to distance themselves from the author. Jokes about how MsKingBean89 "actually wrote Harry Potter" are somewhat common.
Grant Chapman, a particularly well-loved OC from the story, has started appearing in other fanworks.