Okay, You all know how, in elite critical circles, Citizen Kane is generally considered to be The Greatest Film Of All Time? and how The Beatles are generally regarded as The Greatest Pop Group Of All Time? Well, I have been reading H/Hr fanfiction for some time, and the more I read, the pickier I became. I have become more and more obsessed with finding The Greatest H/Hr Fanfiction Of All Time. I wanted the sweetest, most intelligent, appropriatly funny, Canon based fiction that has ever been conceived out of a mind that isn't JKRs. Suddenly I realized: "why not go to the distinguished and critically acclaimed Portkey Boards?"

I have gathered so far only this, that the general consensus for Best H/Hr Author is the great Parker. However, a prolific author does not necessarily a great fanfic make (After all, Steven Spielberg did not direct Citizen Kane. Orson Welles was a relative unknown director when he made it.)!

So, O mighty community of Divine Harmony, tell me truly: What would most people figure to be The Greatest H/Hr Fanfiction Of All Time? Your own reccomendations would also be gratefully accepted.

Impress me! I dare you!

Who is Parker? Are his/her fics posted on PK?

As for the greatest H/Hr fanfic....I'd really have to say that it's Harry Potter and the Circle's End by madscientist. Followed by Sunset/Sunrise Over Britain by Bobmin.

Pam

IMO, the greatest H/Hr fan fic ever is the Paradigm of Uncertainty by Lori (you can find it on FictionAlley), and its sequels, The Show That Never Ends and The Hero With A Thousand Faces. HWTF isn't complete yet but the others are. The POUverse, as it's called, is post-Voldemort, and it begins about 8-10 years after Harry et al finish at Hogwarts. I'd call it action/adventure/angst with a lot of romance, and it's rated R for violence and some occasional sex. The H/Hr is built up nicely and gradually in POU, and takes off from there to become a very intense romantic relationship. You have to get past some previous R/Hr in the first series, but Lori handles it wonderfully.

Lori has a Yahoogroup that's got something like 20,000 members; I can't recall the name of the group offhand. She's also got a LiveJournal which you can friend, where she occasionally posts cookies from her HP stories. Right now she's writing a long story based on Brokeback Mountain, but she swears she'll get back to writing HWTF soon. Oh...she's also got a literary agent and is hoping to get a sci-fi type novel published.

/Lori-spam

inserted links - gal-texter, dec 2008

Parker's fics are available mostly thru a Yahoo! Group. At least I think that's how I got to read them. Those pieces are indeed excellent. I think a couple of them are floating somewhere in FictionAlley.

Uh, as for greatest H/Hr Fanfic, I think Lori's PoU and thereafter is one of the finest I've seen out there.

Edit: Whoops, I just noticed that someone beat me to Lori-advert

I was about ask who is Parker also ? but you beat me to it Pam ,LOL


As for the greatest H/Hr fanfic....Hands down for me Is Hary Potter and the Years of Rebellion by Mike full_pensieve

in no diserning orderof other H/H fic`s i like:

-Harry Potter and the Fifth Element by bexis

-the first i ever read and realy liked was Harry Potter and the Acceptance of Fate by Arya but its not done ,and after over a year with no updates, i guses she just stoped writeing ((

-Harry Potter and A Kiss Isn’t Just A Kiss by Elia Sheldon a very sweet and flufy fic

-No one should go without reading Harry Potter and The Paradigm Of Uncertainty by Lori + Sequels .it hapends Nine years after graduating from Hogwarts,but very well done.

im sure theres more ,but cant remember...Oh Pam is right -Sunset/Sunrise Over Britain by Bobmin is rather well done ,even if it is writen by an R/H couple,Ha

Edit: Dang,why do i writ so slow Lol

"PARKER" is parkergray. Her fics are here on Portkey, also on FictionAlley, and she's got a livejournal too, which I think is http://parkergray.livejournal.com. She posts her H/Hr fics there too as well and saves them to her "memories" section. She writes ONLY "short stories" as far as I know. I think her longest story is maybe 10,000 words, and that's called THREE DAYS OF RAIN. She's brilliant. I'd cut off a finger (well, maybe not go that far...) to write half as well as she does.

Years of Rebellion is another of my favorites. It's incredibly detailed and full of emotion. Alas, it isn't completed. I'm reading FP's HP and the Last Horcrux here on Portkey, and that's likely to become a favorite as well.



I'm acquainted with Arya and last I heard, a few months ago, she stopped writing AoF because she was so disillusioned by HBP

What a shame. I really got hooked on that story and wondered why I stopped receiving updates from the Yahoo! group. Several stories written by authors like Fuyumi, Kirsten Elizabeth, Vicarious Leigh, and Cheering Charm have been quite superb.

If we consider AU plots, I want to throw in Twitch E. Littleferret's works as well.

10,000 words Must be why i never heard of her .(I real like Novel sized Fics)but i`l give her a Looksee Annearchy. :-)



Darn that HBP :-(

Yeah, I agree... POU is the greatest HHR fanfic of all time... and its sequels... those are really well-written and have just the right amount of action, adventure, romance.... etc... etc... I really love these fanfics, and whenever I want to read a fanfic or am really bored, I go to POU and read it again... Lori has built up a great series that will always be great... now if we can just get her to update HWATF 13.... then...

I'm back from Lori-worshipping...

Miss Mady

Despite the ominious name, the Draco Series by Cassandra Claire (now an actual author) is fantastic.

I feel like such a misfit. I read the first PoU fic. And I enjoyed it. But...I don't know. I just have no interest in the sequels beyond a vague curiosity about who 'The Master' is. Lori is definitely a gifted writer, that fic just didn't really leave any extreme impressions with me.

Pam

Don't feel bad. Different strokes for different folks. So many people have RAVED about The Draco Trilogy (Draco Dormiens, Draco Sinister and Draco Veritas, by Cassie Claire), how wonderfully H/Hr it is. Well, I read the first 10 chapters a few years ago and couldn't get into it. It just had too much...DRACO... for my taste

hahha. That's so funny because that is what I loved so much about it. (if anyone wants to give me a link to Draco veritas please do, so far I've only read the firts two.)

I've only just started reading fanfiction, so I can't help at all. But I am just as intersted to see which is classed as the best. I'm going to have to read these fics and make my own decision I think.

Hey there All!!!


By far the best FanFic I have ever read has been "Here at the End" by AnaBlue here on portkey.

It won third in the Felix Felias competition awhile back.

It is so great how she builds up on H/Hr, he actually doesnt kiss her until the 10th chapter or something but when he does OMG you just die, and the final battle with Voldie is so great.

SQUEEEEE

That's exactly what everyone should do. We all have different tastes. I, for example, have very little interest in "alternate universe" (AU) fics. To me the attraction of Harry Potter is in the universe that JKR created, which parallels the "muggle" world and which magical people can go in and out of at will. I'm not interested in anything set in 18th century France, or a thousand years from now, or on another planet. I don't even care much about the Marauders. I guess I don't know enough about either Lily or James to care about L/J fan fic. (Heresy, I know, on this site.) Some people like to read only fluffy romances. Others prefer fics that have a lot of angst, suffering, misunderstandings, etc. Some want to read only action/adventure with very little romance, and nothing worse than PG...you get the picture So what one person considers a great story, another person might have no interest in reading. Personally I don't have time to read a lot of fan fic, so I mostly read authors whose work I already like, or fics that friends here or on LiveJournal have recommended to me. If I read everything that's available (even just in H/Hr) I'd never have time to write (OR DO?!) anything else myself

hi! i hope you guys can post the link of the fan fics that you said are really good. i went to search for them, FELIX FELICIS & PARADIGM OF UNCERTAINTY but i couldn't find them!

thank you so much! i'm really lookin forward to reading them!

Here yas go...
http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/lori/TPOU01.html
That's Paradigm of Uncertainty... after you finish that, be sure to read its sequels!!!

Miss Mady

Help!

I've been reading the PoU fics by Lori. I love them. It took me 2 days to read PoU and 1 day to read STNE.

But I've been trying to read the third one on Fiction Alley and it keeps saying that the page is missing or something.

So does anyone have another non-FA link?

please?

help.

lol.

Here you go http://www.schnoogle.com/authorLinks/Lori/ hope that works

and when your done ,if you have not yet read it ,you could try Harry Potter and the Years of Rebellion.heres the link

http://fanfiction.portkey.org/story/3807

by -> full_pensieves he`s my Author

The links to the chapters for HWTF aren't working for some reason. I guess the other alternative would be to read chapters from the PoU yahoo group. I do believe that they are in there. I think if you do a 'Paradigm of Uncertainty' search, you'd be able to locate the group and join it.

Edit: Whoops, found a working link for HWATF...

http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/lori/HWATF.html

Enjoy reading!

Of course it's basically a matter of taste - but I feel you simply MUST NOT forget

linney's marvellous

Magic never dies

here on portkey. Her (pre-HBP)

Here with me

is also wonderful, and her current

Fixing Harry

is very promising indeed. Give them a try, it's worth it!

The best fan fic I've read is Magic Never Dies by Lynney. Her new story, Fixing Harry, is also excellent.

I agree that "Fixing Harry" is really good... I always look forward to the updates! Lynney is a GREAT author!

Miss Mady

Have got several catagories but here we go

Post-War in progress

Fixing Harry,
By Lynney
Portkey

Seventh year in progress

Harry Potter and the Knights of Walpurgis
Island Princes1
Portkey
(Only 4 Chapters so far but oooh is it good!)

Post-War ###### multi-chapter completed

The Snitch
By Napalmency
Portkey

Post-War completed

Cancitotallus
By Donovan Potter
Portkey

Also there are plenty of fics that are now AU written after books 1-5 of 6th year that were favourites pre-HBP but I'm a bit of a cannon fanatic so they have been ruined for me by HBP.

You mean The Snitch by Napalmnacey

Darn it! I tried to hard to get all the authors names correct! oh well, yes that's the one I ment.

Anything by MadScientist. "Circle's end", "Lions of..." series. All beautiful.

I *love* the Draco trilogy. It's what made me a closet Draco/Hermione-tease fan (which still means I prefer Harry+Hermione).

And yes, don't feel bad about not getting into a popular fic. There are a couple of uber popular fics that I positively hate--and I don't mean "not getting into it", I mean really HATE--in spite of the humungous following. Not going to mention them.

The best fics... for me, at least: go to my Portkey profile HERE and click on both my "Favorite Stories" list and my "Favorite Authors" list. The lists are a little bit different from one another, so you'd want to click on both, but those are the stories I'd recommend.

If you want to know details about my story preferences/peeves, highlight the quote box below. I don't want to throw this thread off-topic by blatantly turning it into a Fanfiction Pet Peeves.

As a side note: Most of the fics mentioned here (if not all) and their respective links can be found in the Recommendation Engine.

For example, here is a small list of Parkers fics.

I loved "Magic Never Dies" by Lynney on Portkey. It was excellent - and the first H/Hr moment was wonderful. Just the right balance between romance and angst.

personally i ahve a thre favs.... its a tie really between,

Harry Potter and the Circle's End - by madscientist

Sunset/Sunrise Over Britain - by Bobmin (Paraells is also great!)

And the lions series... - by madscientist

Which is...

HP and the darkness of dawn
HP and the lions of Gryffindor
HP and the war of the shadows

Even though it is not on my list of favorites, I would have to vote for POU. It’s the most read, most talked about, but more importantly it was one of the first h/hr epics…it set the standard for future writers.

Some would say the paradise series is the “bible,” but that fic has way too much drama for me...it was like watching a Korean soap opera.

I’m a guy, I can’t visualize action very well in writing (rather watch anime for that), so I tend to lean towards drama/romance/angst/humor.

If I had to pick my 5 favorite h/hr fics

Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered – Cheering Charm
Power Series – Vicarious Leigh
Just Friends – Amynoelle
Come Together - Granger
Forever Knight – DeliverMeFromEve (this one compelled me to donate)


If one shot is your thing, I think Amethyst or Bingblot is the best of the one shots.

My personal favorite author is Kyc639, I love his version of harry…clueless, innocent, funny, lovable.
Plus he’s from the windy city!!

I think Lori's PoU series could be it but I haven't read the third one (HWTF) yet.
I would like to suggest AngieJ/Ebony's Paradise fics:
Trouble in Paradise
Paradise Lost
I really like them. When I read them (especially TiP), I just had such intense feelings. The dialogue is wonderful. I think I fell in love with the Harry. Haha.

Wow, what a question.

I've read a lot of H/Hr fic here, on FFnet and elsewhere, but the ones that comes to mind immediately are:

Harry Potter & The Years of Rebellion - by Full_Pensieve

This is easily one of, if not the favourite story I've read, re-read, and read again. The characterisation is wonderful, the story engrossing and it just has that certain...feel to it. I know Mike's had a lot of health issues lately, but I really hope he carries on writing it. Purely phenomenal, and if you haven't read it yet then you definitely should. You won't regret it.

Link: http://fanfiction.portkey.org/story/3807



Harry Potter & The Psychic Serpent - by B.L. Purdom

I know the PS series is R/Hr and H/G as a whole, but the first book is pure H/Hr. The romance is perfectly done, the story engrossing and I find myself constantly going back to read it time and time again. It's not on PortKey, but the links to some PDFs and the Yahoo! Group are below. Really, seriously, if you do nothing else today then read Psychic Serpent. Just don't be disappointed (like I was) if you read the second and third books in the series.

Link - (PDF) http://home.arcor.de/mark.halpaap/ | (Yahoo) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Psychic_Serpent/



Dumbledore's Feint - by CassieVerte

An engrossing, but incredibly dark and angsty fic. If you like your pathos in spades, then this fic and it's successor, Harry Potter & The City of Woe are for you. It's extremely well written, and Wild Hermione is well portrayed. I don't like the D/Hr subtext or the H/G in it, but it's well worth a butchers.

Link - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Dumbledores_Feint/



Fixing Harry - by Lynney

A fantastic, slow moving post-Voldemort fic from a fantastic author. Starts of R/Hr, but trust me when I say it really adds to the story.

Link - http://fanfiction.portkey.org/story/5750



Resistance - by lorien829

As with all of lorien's work, this story really caught me off guard. If you like H/Hr (and I know you do ) then definitely give this a try.

Link - http://fanfiction.portkey.org/story/5638/



There are loads more, and I'm not doing justice to the vast amount of sheer quality there is out there. Lori's PoU series of course, MND by Lynney, HP and the Maw...but these are the ones that came to mind for now

I agree; all Lynney's fics are really well-written, and they have the right dash of everything... romance, humor, action... in them. I especially loved Magic Never Dies... and Fixing Harry... in fact, I'm reading the new update right now...

Multitasking Miss Mady

Like many of you, I loved Lori's PoU series, but my all time favorite multi-chaptered story is a tie between "Magic Never Dies" by Lynney as some some of you have posted and "Lines Crossed" by Goldy. Heres the Link to Lines Crossed>>> http://fanfiction.portkey.org/story/2592/1
In fact, almost all of Goldy's stories are fantastic and worth checking out.

For short stories and one-shots, my favorites are "One Simple Thing" by Demosthenes and its sequel, "A Simple Misunderstanding". Both are here at portkey, and the link to One Simple Thing is here>>>>>>
http://fanfiction.portkey.org/story/3415

I'm not going to call any of these the greatest fic of all time because that is hugely debateable. I personally prefer long, novel-length fics (preferably at least 20 chapters) to one-shots or shorter stories, probably because that's how I started in HP fandom, reading the crazy long fics. Therefore, as amazing an author Parker might be (and I have yet to see, haven't read any of those to my knowledge), those fics wouldn't be in my top 5. My favorites have been mentioned, but they include:

1. Trouble in Paradise/Paradise Lost - read these twice, I love them. I adore the different angle it goes from...before reading these I had never seen (nor have seen since) a fic from that perspective. Angelina's not Harry or Hermione, she's not a best friend, she's not an enemy...she's just kind of a bystander who is casual friends and sort-of family to them.

2. The Draco Trilogy - Not sure if this counts as H/Hr, but these three are among my favorites ever. I may have to go back and reread...and I love the Draco overload, he's one of my favorite characters that JKR has so graciously created for us to play with. Like one of the previous posters, I secretly nurse a love for Draco/Hermione because of TDT. And now I'm off to stone myself, or perhaps just sweat myself of all the impurities.

3. Paradigm of Uncertainy et. al. - I put this one down a bit reluctantly. I read it after hearing it called the "H/Hr Bible" somewhere. I don't remember much about it, just that it was a bit too much for me. Still, a good fic, and one of the earliest longfics for our ship.

4. Magic Never Dies - Just read this recently and I *loved* it. I try to make a habit of not reading fics until they are complete because I hate waiting around for updates (what can I say?) but I can't wait for her to finish her other fics so I can read those as well.

Having looked through this thread, I think I have a lot of fics to go read

The greatest H/Hr fics of all times:

No. 5 Keeping a Promise by Maple Mountain

No. 4 Letters and Lunches by Old Crow

No. 3 Harry Potter and the Acceptance of Fate by Arya1.....almost didnt make it due to it being incomplete.

No. 2 The Lions of Gryffindor Series by the Madscientist

No. 1 Sunset/Sunrise over Britain series by Bobmin





Honorable Mentions going to: A Howling Wind by madscientist, An Effective abstraction by Muirin Cocan, Parallels by bobmin, Lines Crossed by Goldy, Flame of the Dragon by S.S. Idget, Harry Potter and the Lionheart of Gryffindor by Starslife, No Thanks by Old Crow, The Trials of a Hero by Garet Jax, Harry Potter and the Year of Resolve by bferbear, Time of Change by Olafr, Summer of Despair and Hope by Golasgil Sindar, and His Nearest and Dearest by Pixie Dust.




**(Honorable Mentions did recieve serious consideration, but were left at Honorable Mention due to their being a one-shot, incomplete, just didnt merit top five, or were fairly similiar to a story on the list.)**

The two best ever H/Hr fanfics I have ever read is The Paraverse series of AngieJ. I read it two times a year. Then followed by Lori's POU series.

There are my other favorites that's not part of a series but they are equally amazing with clever plots and scenarios.

1) Forever Knight by Adamanteve

2) I consider all of Twitch Littleferret's stories as my fave since her vision of Harry is the exact replica of my ideal man.

3) Vicarious Leigh's series and Cheeringcharm's fics.

4) Behind the Bookshelves by Silvestria

5) Surprises by Suz1236

6) And anything with being caught in the act. You know what I mean.

I will honestly admit that I'm not a fangirl of Lori's PoU trilogy. I thought the first one was pretty good, but once she got into what I call worlds above and beyond wizards, she lost my interest. The story was no longer about the characters I love, but the uber-cosmic grand scheme she invented. AngieJ is another like that; I started losing interest when the Grand Supersecret Conspiracy started showing up.

Some of my personal favorites:

Cheering Charm's "Tragic Little Hero" set of stories

Bingblot's "A Hero's Choice" (my fave, but practically anything by her)

Demosthenes' "One Simple Thing"/"A Simple Misunderstanding"

ChocolateFrogsForBreakfast's "Need and Want"

anything by Paracelsus


My current favorite WIPs are "Fixing Harry" by Lynney and "Restoring Hope" by Paracelsus.

I think adamanteve with ForeverKnight is giving a good run for everyone's money lolz

Madscientist,Twichty ( 8-9 Fics over 600 Reviews) her latest one being "More Important Things" Which reached 3k reviews

I loved meant to last by Amethyst Jackson. It's amazing.

I also love come together by Granger

Wow - i see i have a lot of reading to catch up on
I love the PoU series, and adore VicariousLeigh's work...Lynney's Magic Never Dies appeared at just the right time for this H/Hr shipper
I'd like to add a few more wonderful authors to this thread...

1. Kaze ..she was writing this fic called "Magnolias" (here on Portkey)...but it's still unfinished. It was written in a pre-HPB world : sniff:

2. Jane99's wonderful wip (again at Portkey) ... HP and the Eye of the Storm... again, very well written. She last updated in September; its up to chap 22.

3. Another one is Musca's "Voiceless" (again at Portkey).

cheers!
Papertrail

I love Forever Knight... in fact, I just finished it last night. I simply loved it.

Twitch's stories are so addicting. I love her Harry too. I can't wait until More Important Things is updated. MIT love!

Miss Mady

My personal favorites-
Sound of a Kiss and Afterwards, by Genvieve
The Magic of Firelight, by Stietoe
One Simple Thing and A Simple Misunderstanding, by Demosthenes


That said, I've never understood why everyone like PoU series so well- it was never even on my top 10. Anyone want to explain that to me?

Yeah...it is the same for me....HBP kind of ruined my favorite stories that are based from Books 1-5...Anyways, I loved the following, though not in order...I can't seem to decide.

The Mirror by Emily North: http://fanfiction.portkey.org/story/3923
It is set on their 7th year and seems to be AU after HBP. This is more Hermione-centered and has lots of Draco-Hermione friendship on it...but if you like angst.

Into a Darkened Room by Demosthenes: http://fanfiction.portkey.org/story/2963
This is set immediatley after Hogwarts...lots of angst...and brilliant Hermione.

Here at the End by Ahn Na Blue: http://fanfiction.portkey.org/story/4798
This won third on the Felix Felicis challenge...set in their 7th year and with HBP spoilers, so really, it was a great read!!!!

Harry Potter and the Knights of Walpurgis by IslandPrincess1: http://fanfiction.portkey.org/story/5669/17
This is set on their 7th year and has HBP spoilers.This is a great 7th year rendition of HPDH, IMHO. It has 17 chapters, now!

I am stuck among these fantastic writers since I love all their fics: Twitch E. Littleferret, DeliverMeFromEve, lorien829, Harrys Mistress, Lynney, kyc639 and hhragent27 (I loved her "Twist through Time" story which she has finished in FF.net but just started posting here)....

There are so many fics by so many authors out there that are really in my bookmarks already so I am sure I have missed so many others. Anyways, that's about it!!!!

I read half of the first chapter and thought it was...ok, I guess. Don't see what all the hype's about. Maybe I'll try again.

Anybody here ever read "Moonlight Sonata" and "A New Moon". They go together, like part 1 and part 2.

They're written by Sea of Fire and can be found on fanfiction.net. They're awesome!!!

Me= lurves that fanfic. So angsty... so good! I love angst. I have The Mirror on my favorites list.

Miss Mady

I'm one of those that never really got into PoU. I read up to the Chapter 10 and then...meh. I didn't really have a connection with her OCs or Harry and Hermione. As for some of the best...

1)Magic Never Dies by Lynney: I'm going to have to add that to my favorites list. Wwll-written, fantastically paced, suspenseful...Great fic all around. It's what I strive for.

2)More Important Things by Twitch E. Littleferret: Some people hate this fic, but I can't see why. Her characters aren't Sue-ish or glorified, they're real. I can see them like this during the war if they were allowed to cuss. They have flaws, make mistakes, grow form them. Awesome, is all of her other work.

3)Bearings by MattD12027: He's new, but man, can he write! I'm loving it so far and I can't wait for the next chapter. I love his Hermione. Did I mention Grown-Up!Hermione is a favorite?

YES!! and am looking for a current link... are you able to help? It doesn't seem to be on ff.net anymore

inserting reply. Click on the quote arrow to see the rest. - gal-texter, 2008




Oooh also my new absolute and forever FAVOURITE Fanfic is Harry Potter and the fifth element... it is AU as of HBP but it's so good that it validates all of my dislike/critiscm of HBP... I wrote in a review that JKR should read it and shrivel in shame at the drivel of HBP and it's the first time EVER a fanfic has had that effect on me. Unfortunatly it's a WIP...