DameChina

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Fan
Name: Molly
Alias(es): DameChina, Dame China, Abby, AbbyTheTabby, Abbacus, schnell
Type: fan writer, fansite owner
Fandoms: Harry Potter
Communities: Hogwarts School of Magic, METMA, DSE
Other: (retired)
URL: Abbacus and The Weasley Twinettes at FanFiction.Net
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DameChina was an early Harry Potter fanfiction author best known for her popular parody story "The Britney Spears Cliché". As Headmistress Abby, she was also the owner of the interactive Harry Potter fansite Hogwarts School of Magic.

"The Britney Spears Cliché" was nominated for a Golden Toad award in Fall 2000 in the category "Best Cliché" and reportedly had hundreds of reviews at FanFiction.Net.[1] DameChina and her cousin Dragonwings also wrote fanfiction together as The Weasley Twinettes, and published two stories: "Hicks, Sticks, and Ugly Chicks" in March 2001 and "Potions, Poems and Present-Day Problems" in May 2001. The fanfiction she wrote as DameChina or Abbacus is no longer online.

She was a member of METMA and DSE[2] and was a Harry/Hermione shipper.[3]

DameChina ran Hogwarts School of Magic as "Headmistress Abby", though she briefly turned the site over to Dragonwings in secret, and remained active on the site until it she closed it due to lack of help in March 2002.[1][4]

She left fandom after the closure of Hogwarts School of Magic, writing in 2003: "With the website gone, I had a brief obsession with trying to be a mod or something of the sort. Once I realized how ridiculous I was being and that I'd never really fit in with those adults, I left fandom altogether."[5]

References

  1. ^ a b emilyenrose at fandom_history at LiveJournal. History of a Lurker, posted 04 March 2003.
  2. ^ The Weasley Twinettes's Bio at FanFiction.Net: "Abby is a member of the DSE." DameChina is also listed on the list of METMA members, archived in October 2009.
  3. ^ "I am also one of the many crewmembers of the universal Good Ship H/H. H/H forever!" Abbacus's Bio at FanFiction.Net. Written on or after 31 July 2000. (Accessed 24 July 2016.)
  4. ^ hogwarts_team at LiveJournal, the Hogwarts School of Magic staff account, last updated 04 July 2002.
  5. ^ schnell at LiveJournal, ...and things were perfect., posted 10 March 2003.