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On February 3, 2000, the hpslash mailing list was founded.
On October 23, 2000, Majolique posted her story, "Midnight Confessions" to the hpslash list. This story is credited as being the first Snape/Harry fan fiction published. [1][2][3]
On October 31, 2000, Unquiet posted part one of "A Different Lesson" the hpslash mailing list. [4][5][6] Part two of this story was posted to FanFiction.Net. This was another early Snape/Harry story.
On March 19, 2001, Rhysenn was busy plugging her new mailing list on such mailing lists as FFN-Slashers-Unite and hpslash. [7][8] Cassandra Claire was similarly plugging the list on mailing lists like HP_FanFiction. [9] It is also worth noting that Cassandra Claire's work, according to her plug post, definitely had slashy subtext by this time.
On June 8, 2001, Heidi made a post on the hpslash list which was perceived as an attempt to get slashers to join another mailing list to defend Cassandra Claire's slash writing. [10] The text of this e-mail is:

re: OT: COMPLETLEY OUTRAGED!!!

Punker wrote about Eliza's fanfic site:

I am only posting this because all these things are on a public

message board - (first, a note - Eliza is 14ish, and I don't even

think she's online much these days because she's dealing with final

exams, but...still....)

Eliza has never made any secret that she is an anti-slash person -

back around New Year's there was a long discussion on HP_Fanfiction

about slash - people like Al, Rhysenn, Cassie, Minx and others chimed

in on this issue, and Eliza eventually posted in response to this

post from cassie:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HP_FanFiction/message/570

Cassie ponders about where to fit a / into DS.* My favorite pairing

after Harry/Draco (which I really can't make work) is Remus/Sirius,

and Sirius needs to marry Narcissa so H&D can stay related, and

anyway, Remus has been turned, possibly permanently, into a big wolf.

That leaves Ron, I guess, available for.....um.....well, we'll see.

grins* The Ron/Draco knife-throwing scene I believe started out as a

response to the Teenage Witches who asked for a scene with Ron and

Draco where Draco starts taking off his clothes. They tend to ask for

peculiar things, but then they are peculiar people. ;) (she also

mentions Lucius-redemption in that post - it's an interesting little

bit of history!)

Eliza's response follows:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HP_FanFiction/message/576

From: "Eliza Diawna Snape"

Date: Sat Dec 30, 2000 4:04 pm

Subject: Re: [HP_FanFiction] Re: Draco sightings, Ron/Draco and

Lucius M.

>*Cassie ponders about where to fit a / into DS.

Oh, please, Cassandra, don't do it. Trust me on this; you may think slash is

perfectly accepted my most people, but, call me close-minded, I don't really

care, I believe it's wrong. I'm not going to start preaching at you, and so

far during this entire discussion I've stayed quiet about this, but if you

add a slash, I'm going to stop reading DS, and take the story off my site.

That's not a threat... I'm not trying to scare you into not thinking about

it. Don't get me wrong, you can write what you like... but, even when the

story is good, I have a very hard time getting myself to put it up. Thats

one of the reasons you will NEVER find PoU on my site, not because I think

its not a good story, but because of the ratings. Basically, if you add

slash, you're going to offend a lot of people, including me.

-Eliza, who is wondering how many people are going to start yelling at her

for this.

You can read a lot more on the thread by joining at

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HP_FanFiction/ if you want a little

historical perspective on it. Believe me, flaming Eliza will get you

nowhere. She thinks what she thinks - and at the moment, she's not

changing it. Grr. However, DS is still up there, despite, well,

hintiness in some of the more recent chapters of a ben/gareth thing.

Oh well!

The view at the time, on the hpslash (mailing list) mailing list, was that Heidi was trying to get people to rally to Cassandra Claire's defense and create a flame war between the slash and het contingents.

On July 22, 2001, the Schnoogle.Com section of FictionAlley.Org opened. According to Heidi8, the site was founded by about twenty people. They included Flourish, Narri Patters, Colin, Ebony, Heidi8, Cassandra Claire, Simon, Al, Carole Estes, Mon Starling, Priscilla Spencer, Jana, Yael Pou and Viola. [11] Mon Starling and Priscilla Spencer designed the art work for the site. [12] The first registered user who was not a moderator was R. J. Anderson, [13] the author who had offered to mediate between Cassandra Claire and Pamela Dean during the plagiarism incident. Penny Linsenmayer was another early member. [14] A sample announcement, taken from the hpslash list, appears below [15] with a similar announcement appearing the next day on the HP_Fanfiction list [16]:

Announcing the launch of F i c t i o n A l l e y . o r g

If you tap on the third brick to the left of the web, or type in

http://www.fictionalley.org, <http://www.fictionalley.org,/> you will be

portkeyed right to the newest

fanfiction and fanart site in the HP Fandom -- and we hope it's the most

comprehensive site too. The Schnoogle.com section of FictionAlley contains

some of the best novel-length fanfiction on offer, from many of your

favorite authors.

F i c t i o n A l l e y . o r g

FictionAlley features fanfics by talented authors - and among the grand

opening offerings are a new chapter of Draco Sinister from Cassandra Claire

and a brand new PoUniverse cookie from Lori Summers.

S c h n o o g l e . c o m

Dictionaria Potterica Fandomia:

"Schnoogle" (sh-NOO-gl): Anything from a hug to an all-on-snogfest.

Click on Schnoogle when you get to FictionAlley and you'll see a list of all

the authors we feature. And more authors are joining every day -- if you

want to see your fics on Schnoogle.com, visit the Submission Guidelines at

the site or join http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/FictionAlleyWriters

<http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/fictionalleywriters> and

read the guidelines in the Files section --

http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/FictionAlleyWriters/files

<http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/fictionalleywriters/files>

S c h n o o g l e . c o m

FictionAlley has review boards,

ChapterOwls, message boards and Professor McG's Fanfic Primer...take a

stroll and pick up some fanfics - only seven sickles an ounce.

S c h n o o g l e . c o m & F i c t i o n A l l e y . o r g

-- i t ' s j u s t g o o d .

www.schnoogle.com

www.fictionalley.org

_____________________________________

Gwendolyn Grace

=| Schnoogle.com, part of the FictionAlley.org community |=

high-quality novel-length fanfiction from some of your favorite authors
talk to the authors using Schnoogle.com messageboards

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