The Lost Generation

Zine
Title:	The Lost Generation
Publisher:
Editor:
Author(s):	Barb (B.L. Purdom)
Cover Artist(s):	Leela Starsky
Illustrator(s):
Date(s):	published on Fiction Alley May 2002 - December 2003, announced as "new from Agent With Style" as print in 2005
Series?:	yes
Medium:	online fic, print zine
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Genre:	het
Fandom:	Harry Potter
Language:	English
External Links:	online version
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The Lost Generation is a het (and minor slash) Harry Potter novel in two volumes by B.L. Purdom. The ships are James/Lily, Lily/Remus, Lily/Snape, and OMC_W/Remus Lupin. It is part of a series. It is a prequel to the other stories in the Psychic Serpent series and was started last, though partly posted parallel to the chronologically last part, Harry Potter and the Triangle Prophecy, and finished slightly before. The total page count is 386.

cover by Leela Starsky

Summary

Bill Weasley begins his education at Hogwarts in 1975, in the middle of Voldemort's reign of terror. He never suspects that the Gryffindor prefects he looks up to, Lily Evans and James Potter, will eventually have a son who saves the wizarding world, nor that the Weasley family will eventually play an important role in the Dark Lord's fall. All he knows is that in a very scary wizarding world, Hogwarts is a safe haven where he has always longed to be -- until, that is, there are whispers of vampires and werewolves, of Death Eaters and traitors, and a Seeress pronounces a Prophecy which will shake the wizarding world to its very foundations.

Psychic Serpent "Trilogy"

The total page count of all three volumes is 670. Each volume continues the pagination from the previous one. For example, the third volume ("Triangle Prophecy") contains pages 442-662.

The main three volumes are:

• Harry Potter and the Psychic Serpent
• Harry Potter and the Time of Good Intentions
• Harry Potter and the Triangle Prophecy

Prequel and related:

• The Lost Generation (The Lost Generation is a prequel, i.e. it was published after the others, though chronologically it happens before. But the first in the series is Psychic Serpent. )
• Replay (While the story is not directly part of the Psychic Serpent series, the novel Replay takes place in the setting created by the author.)

About Its History with Agent With Style

This series of zines has a complicated history with its one-time publisher, Agent With Style. See: Blueprint(s) for Disaster - The Saga of Me and Agent with Style (AWS), ^{Archived version}, accessed 5.11.2011

Reactions and Reviews

Early 2000s

The 'Psychic Serpent' Series - And here's another long-ass story that's so complicated that you'll lose track of little details until they appear 30 chapters later. Seriously-this whole story is so intricate and moving and just wonderful. I wasn't hooked at first-I'm not a big fan of Hermione/Harry, and that's practically the first paragraph. But once you get into it...wow. This is a bit of a spoiler, but they don't *stay* together-Hermione ends up with who she really belongs with (in my opinion, of course). The entire story focuses on Harry's POV (like canon), and Barb has the excellent ability to keep him completely in character. Be forewarned-only go here if you enjoy a long story. I mean, really long-you won't finish in one sitting. Each chapter is, as I think she put it once, 30 Microsoft Word pages long. The first three stories are part of the trilogy, and 'The Lost Generation' goes back in time to the MWPP years. Everything fits so perfectly, too-her OC's are all blended very well with the established canon characters. Really, if you have loads of time, go and get into this. I found myself thinking about this story when I was in the middle of 'Time of Good Intentions' (my favorite part of the trilogy), and that, my friend, is the sign that a story has really got you by the balls. If, of course, you have them. :)