Alohomora.com
| Website | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Alohomora.com |
| Owner/Maintainer: | Flourish |
| Dates: | c. late 1999 – 2001 |
| Type: | Fanfiction archive and challenges |
| Fandom: | Harry Potter |
| URL: | alohomora.com (before 2001) geocities.com/slytherinkeeper (before 2001) open.zosteria.net (2001) |
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Alohomora.com was one of the first Harry Potter websites to house fiction. It was run by Flourish.
The site became just Alohomora and stopped using the alohomora.com address following a cease and desist letter from Warner Bros.[1] The site closed in 2001 and the URL temporarily redirected to FictionAlley.
It was mentioned in Flourish's 2002 "Guided Tour of the Harry Potter Fandom":
The first Harry Potter site was the Realm, founded in the fall of 1999. And there were authors, and it was good. This website was run by one person, Gypsy, but this task is extremely large; therefore, the site's fanfiction archive has become less and less the center of fanfiction activities. This site was the first Harry Potter fanfiction site, and was the typical fan-run HP fanfic site of the time: small, designed in an amateurish way, and with a small community of teenaged authors. Another similar site of this time was alohomora.com (now defunct).[2]
The domain was also home to Flourish's other sites, including the hpfwa, Project Alternity and The Chamber of Secrets.
Alohomora Challenge
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The Alohomora Challenge (previously known as the alohomora.com fanfic challenge) was held and judged every two months. The first challenge was in January 2000.
Redcaps Archive
The Redcaps Archive was "a fanfiction archive including slash, gen and het from some of the best authors in the fandom." As of May 2001, it hosted the following stories:
As the Black Fox Lives by Firebolt
Rating: PG
Content: Angst
Summary: As long as the black fox lives, he will seek out evil and destroy it.Chance Encounters by Arabella
Rating: G
Content: Pre-Hogwarts but post-MWPP
Summary: Who'da thunk it? Our favorite trio meet, years before they ever go to Hogwarts - and they're exactly the same.Filios by Keieru
Rating: R
Content: Slash, Luc/Drac, very darkfic
Summary: Draco always knew how to use his beauty to advantage.Harry Potter and the Tomb of Days by Slytherin Dragon
Rating: PG
Content: Founderfic, Nice!Draco
Summary: The first Nice!Draco - or at least the first has-hope-to-become-nice Draco. What if it wasn't just Slytherin who kept secrets?He's a Rebel - Goyle's Soliloquy by morrigan
Rating: PG
Content: Slashy themes, humor
Summary: The Crystals' "He's a Rebel" and Goyle mooning over Malfoy.Love, Hate, Death and a Diary by Slytherin Dragon
Rating: PG-13
Content: Darkfic, Draco
Summary: There's more than one of him.The Love That Shattered a Man by Gypsy
Rating:PG
Content: Snapefic!, angst
Summary: The original Snapefic, is melodramatic and slightly cheesy but is a true classic.Omn' Animal Triste by Jen Faulkner
Rating: PG-13
Content: L&J, L/N, slash, angst.
Summary: Lily and Narcissa, alone in a classroom.One Single Instant by Firebolt
Rating: PG
Content: Angst
Summary: One single instant of love, hatred, friendship...Sacrificial Lamb by Leah-chan
Rating: She says PG, I say PG-13.
Content: Slash! Humor.
Summary: Who's going to be the human sacrifice? A ROTFLMAO story.Slytherins are Sexier by morrigan
Rating: PG
Content: Humor, song
Summary: Slytherins are sexier, it's a well established fact. Another classic fic.Strawberries, Almonds, and Listerine by Alicia/Sue Spinnet
Rating: R
Content: Angst, no-names
Summary: In this fanfic in the no-name style, someone thinks they've been abandoned...
References
- ^ Fansplaining, Episode 156: The Exit Interview, 25 August 2021.
- ^ Flourish Klink. "A Guided Tour of the Harry Potter Fandom". Archived from the original on 2018-01-14.