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MuggleNet
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| Name: | MuggleNet |
| Owner/Maintainer: | Emerson Spartz |
| Dates: | 1999 – present |
| Type: | news, fanfiction, editorials, media resources |
| Fandom: | Harry Potter |
| URL: | http://www.mugglenet.com/ http://www.mugglenetfanfiction.com/ (read-only back-up site of http://fanfiction.mugglenet.com/) |
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MuggleNet is a renowned Harry Potter fansite, founded by Emerson Spartz in 1999. It was and is the first port of call for fans of the Harry Potter series looking for news, editorials, and acts as an encyclopaedia for the Potter canon. It hosts fanfiction, and runs fannish competitions such as the weekly caption contest. Fans have been known to first hear of fanfiction on MuggleNet, and venture out looking for more.
Notable Fannish History
- 2006 book, MuggleNet.com's What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Falls in Love and How Will the Adventure Finally End?
In 2020, the Site Distanced Itself from J.K. Rowling
On July 1, 2020, the US-based sites MuggleNet and The Leaky Cauldron released a joint statement rejecting Rowling's beliefs on transgender rights and detailing their commitment to providing a safe community where all feel welcome. This statement was in response to an essay Rowling wrote in which she commented about gender identity on her website. She immediately faced criticism and condemnation from LGBTQ+ activists and fans, who called it "devastating."
The joint statements: Our Commitment, Archived version and Addressing J.K. Rowling's Recent Statements, Archived version.
Further Reading
- Harry Potter fan sites condemn J.K. Rowling over transgender rights - CNN, Archived version by Aleesha Khaliq, CNN (July 3, 2020)
MuggleNet Fan Fiction
Staff at MuggleNet founded a fanfiction site in 2004, at fanfiction.mugglenet.com. The site went down and is now hosted at mugglenetfanfiction.com.
MuggleNet Fanfiction ran annual writing awards, known as the Quicksilver Quills, for fanfiction published on the site.
An associated forum for writing discussion, the MuggleNet Fanfiction Beta Boards, was hosted at fanfiction.mugglenet.com/forums. Forum users were sorted into Houses, like Hogwarts students, and gained access to House-specific subforums. All other subforums were available to all logged-in users, and some were also visible to the public. The latter (which remain visible in Internet Archive records) included:
- SPEW (Society for the Promotion of the Evaluation of Writers, a subforum for writing reviews and constructive criticism on a monthly basis)
- The Black Lake (a subforum for audiofictions, which were recorded by a team known as the Mermuggles and hosted in several places including the Internet Archive)
- Fiction Junction (a subforum for fanfiction recommendations)
- Madam Pomfrey's Character Clinic (a subforum for characterization discussion)
- Skele-Gro Plot Potion (a subforum for developing fanfiction plots)
The MNFF Beta Boards also ran occasional classes on topics related to fanwork (including writing and Photoshop design) through a Hogwarts subforum. The last Hogwarts session occurred in 2013.
In December 2024, it was announced that MuggleNet Fan Fiction would be moving to the Archive of Our Own as an Open Doors Project.[1]
External Links
References
- ^ MuggleNet Fan Fiction is Moving to the AO3 (Accessed 20 December 2024)