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Timeline of Harry Potter Meta

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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) ^{[notes 1]}
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)

Notes

^ Note: authorship of this meta is contested, which affects the accuracy of its placement on this timeline.

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