God, I really need to update more…

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I thought I’d share a neat little story about a Harry Potter fan fic written by an 11 year old a few years ago.

In my canasta club, I regularly partner with a woman who teaches the fifth grade in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />California. I use the same screen name there and I think she googled it or something because last night she suddenly brought Harry Potter fan fiction. She told me that an assignment she gives every year is for her students to write a story set in one of their favorite books. A lot of them choose Harry Potter. Well, the year before OOTP was published, one of her students wrote a short story set in Harry’s fifth year. The story followed the plot of those Miss Nelson is Missing books. In the story, Dumbledore goes away on school business and while he is away, the students start misbehaving badly. Once Dumbledore gets word of it, he decides to come back as a mean and vicious female teacher who is short and fat with a toad-like face and black curly hair.  

Sound familiar?

And the kicker – her first name was Umbra! Her full name was an anagram of “Albus Dumbledore” which is how Hermione finally realizes who Umbra really is.

Anyway, I thought that was kind of cool. I recall making a post a while back about how I created a yet to be introduced OMC for Repetitions and then JKR made her website and mentioned a character named Pyrites who was almost exactly like the OMC I had in mind, right down to the wearing of blood-stained gloves. Even the name of Pyrites fit so perfectly.

And now I am wondering if there has been any pre-HBP fics that had plot elements or characters that were eerily similar to things in HBP.

I can recall two offhand. I read a Lupin fic where he is bitten by a child molesting werewolf named Fernis, which is another name for Fenrir.

And there was a Snarry fic where Snape remains as the Potions master and won’t let Harry in his class. Harry learns that to be an Auror all he has to do is pass the Potions NEWTS and he doesn’t need to take the class to take the exam. And so he begins teaching himself via an old Potions textbook he found in the ROR. The book has been written in by its previous owner. The little notes contain short-cuts, tips, and journal-like scribbles. It even had some made up, nasty curses. Harry grows fond of the unknown previous owner and thinks it might be his father when he reads a nice little note about Lily Evans. He has a fit when he finds out it’s Snape but eventually a Snarry romance ensues.

Do any of you know of others? If you don’t know the exact fic, that’s cool. I am more interested in knowing what weird little predictive plots and characters were written about before HBP.