Timeline of Harry Potter Meta

This timeline covers meta about the Harry Potter fandom and canon that is documented on fanlore.

2000s

Exact Date Unknown

• Draco Malfoy Is Not A Leather-Clad Bisexual Sex-God, early 2000s
• Ever so slightly longer but not quite as thick, originally posted sometime before 2006
• Slasher's Guide to Gay Sex by Faithfulreader, approx 2006
• On the Good ’Ship Granger/Snape by Red Hen, pre 2007

2000

• Harry Potter and Slash by Tinderblast

2001

• Depicting Minors in Sexual Acts in Fiction!
• Researching Fiction by CLS
• Writers University's Harry Potter Warner Brother Slash Positions
• How to Make a Good First Impression by Flourish Klink
• Mary Sueage (And How to Avoid It) by Flourish Klink
• The Daily Prophet: A Malfoy Publication: a series of meta posts by multiple authors, including Cassandra Claire (April 12)
• Saint or Sinner? - All Things Characterisation - "A Sirius Matter" by JK Ashavah (July 21)
• Werewolf of Hogwarts by JK Ashavah (Dec 20)

2002

• A History of PotterWar, As Told by 17-Year-Old Heather
• Age of Consent? Ptui. What About the Real Problems? by Lexin (Jan 29)
• Saint or Sinner - All Things Characterisation - "The White Bumblebee" Albus Dumbledore by JK Ashavah (May 9)
• 2002 Interview with Arabella and Zsenya (May 17)
• To Fandom, With Love by Aja (Aug 8)
• Lust versus Love versus friendship versus slash culture versus blah blah blah by Aja (Dec 18)

2003

• The Very Secret Diary of Aja by Aja
• Saint or Sinner? - All Things Characterisation - "Character-Building" (March 14)
• My Letter to J.K. Rowling by Aja (March 21)
• Letter to X by Aja (April 1)
• OOTP, Harry/Draco, the Damnation of Slytherin, and the right of fans to be upset. by Aja (June 25)
• The Case for R/S, an essay on Remus/Sirius by elwing_alcyone (Aug 8)
• Robert Rodi and the Relationship of fans to their canon. by Aja (Aug 31)

2004

• Chapter 242 of Libertine's Guide to Surviving the Harry Potter Fandom without spontaneously combusting in an embarrassing way. (Jan 19)
• A Reader's Advice on writing good sex. by Aja (Jan 30)
• 'Elite' archives? by maeglinyedi (March 28)
• Weasels, Ferrets, and Draco Malfoy. by Aja (May 15)
• Voldemort and the AIDS Epidemic. by Aja (July 30)
• On JKR's Latest Interview. by Aja (Aug 15)
• An Open Letter to J.K. Rowling from Mugglenet and The Harry Potter Lexicon by Steve Vander Ark (Sept)
• Hex On, Hex Off! - Draco Malfoy and the Karate Kid. by Aja (Sept 12)
• My personal shippers' Manifesto by Aja (Sept 13)
• H/D fic, post-OOTP. And how we aren't writing any. by Aja (Oct 4)
• The Cassie Claire Primer (Oct 14)
• Defining Draco Malfoy. by Aja (Nov 28)

2005

• What makes someone a BNF? by Emma Grant and assort. commenters (July 7)
• A Random Evil by fernwithy (Sept 14)
• Femslash - Feminism, Women, and Potterverse (Sept 26)

2006

• A Bit About FictionAlley
• The Myth of Total Fanfic by Sister Magpie (May 5)
• Slashcast Metachat with Jackie and Kath -- Age and Slashers (May 27)
• Me & CC; or, BNFs do not have more fun by Aja (June 18)
• The Woman who Sued Herself, or, "msscribe: the touching saga of one woman's rise from anonymity to stardom in Harry Potter fandom in five months." by mikkeneko (June 21)
• Quaternary intertextuality: fan fiction as a tool for analysis of canon fiction by edaindirith (July 26)
• It's time for HP fandom to put up or shut up by telesilla (Aug 16)
• Fandom and the Cult of Personality (Aug 18)
• If the Author is Dead, Who's Updating Her Website? J.K. Rowling and the Battle for the Books by Angua (Oct)
• The Right to Read by jedirita (Dec 2)
• Why People Tend Not To Favor Main Characters by Dylan Gleason (Dec 28)

2007

• Fandom Opinion by mijan (Jan 13)
• The Potterocalypse by dm_p (April 7)
• Crossing Rides (June 26)
• On Fear, Freedom, and Harry Potter Fan Fiction by melusinahp (July 7)
• Life After Deathly Hollows (Aug 18)
• Five Keys to Writing Post Deathly Hallows Harry/Draco by ravenna_c_tan (Sept 29)

2008

• A Great Writer. But - Christian? Fabio P. Barbieri (Jan 8)
• Tops and bottoms and bonding by Jane Elliot (June 25)
• Right place, wrong kerfluffle by sophia_helix (Aug 8)

2010s

Exact Date Unknown

• One of the funniest things about harry potter is how jkr accidentally made harry incredibly bisexual., no later than 2016

2010

• Unpopular fannish opinion: i feel bad about mocking the snapewives by seperis (Nov 13)

2013

• On Canon, Authorial Authority, and Queer Representation by idvo (Jan 2)
• House-Switching on Pottermore by River Taylor (Sept 11)

2015

• Fantastic Beasts & Invisible Diversity in the Harry Potter Series by Stitch of Stitch's Media Mix (Nov 25)
• SOME MORE AWESOME THINGS I LOVED FROM THE HP FANDOM BACK IN THE DAY (Aug 12)
• On JK Rowling’s thing about after the fact diversity by Stitch (Dec 22)

2018

• The Fall of Fandom Etiquette and the Rise of the Ship War by Clare McBride (May 16)
• And, to be perfectly honest, I miss the old Harry Potter fandom. by nothosaurus (Nov 17)

2020s

2020

• A BRILLIANT Reason For Why Floo Powder Exists by u/Comtesse_Kamilia (June 4)