The Way We Wanked's Journal

A Harry Potter Classic Wank: Riley's "Pawn to Queen"
WIKTT has been wanking about "Pawn to Queen" again recently, and it reminded me that I never posted this history of "Pawn to Queen." I compiled this little timeline ages ago, shortly after

pyratejenni asked about the great "Pawn to Queen" debate on

fandom_lounge but I didn't get around to posting it before knitting interfered. Better late than never. This is mostly an outline of the final weeks of the great debate, and the events that led up to the author of "Pawn to Queen," one Riley, leaving the Harry Potter fandom, and leaving her story unfinished.

For a quick wank recap, I refer you to this wank, posted by

mrsparkle in October of 2003.

mrsparkle gives a summary of How It All Started (with excerpts!), and there's more summary and storytelling in the comments by some folks who were in the thick of things. For those interested in the literary reviews, "Pawn to Queen" was also reported on deleterius.

A note about the links: 99% of the visible wank happened on the Yahoogroups group whenikissedtheteacher (WKITT), a Snape/Hermione mailing list:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/whenikissedtheteacher/

Most of the links in this post will, therefore, go the list archives. The archives are members-only, but the list membership itself is open. I considered cutting and pasting, but frankly there's just too much material, so I've compromised by summarizing the debate and linking to the pertinent posts so those sufficiently interested can read the full story at their leisure. My apologies for the inconvenience.

( Part the First: The Timeline )

( Part the Second: The Summary )

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