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Sirius Black is a character in the Harry Potter books/films, and is played by Gary Oldman in the films. Canonically, Sirius is the son of Orion and Walburga Black and is brother to Regulus Black. He is also cousins with Narcissa Malfoy, Bellatrix Lestrange, and Andromeda Tonks, thus it makes it so he's related to Draco Malfoy and Nymphadora Tonks. He makes his first appearance in the third book, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and in the fifth book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, he is killed by his cousin Bellatrix. He's also known as Padfoot, part of the Marauders and was best friends with James Potter, Remus Lupin, Lily Evans, and Peter Pettigrew (before his betrayal).

[edit] Terminology

Below is a list of terms and their definitions that are used in this fan community.

Padfoot, his Marauders nickname after his ambigious.
Snuffles, his alias in the books.
Alternate Universe, where Sirius never died.
Dark
Marauders
Time Turner, fanfic that revolves a character (usually Hermione Granger) going back in time to the Marauders era.
Blackcest

[edit] Ships

[edit] Timeline

Below is a partial timeline of events that took place in this fan community.

[edit] 2000

December 2000 ended with Cassandra Claire implying on HP_FanFiction that her story might become a slash story. [1] The following extract gives that clue:

* 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. ;)[2]

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. [3] 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.

[edit] 2001

On July 23, 2001, the announcements regarding FictionAlley.Org continued. One of the posts these from this day was made to HP_Paradise mailing list by Ebony. [4] Another announcement was made on the Sirius_Black_and_Remus_Lupin mailing list. [5]
On August 6, 2001, the LiveJournal community sirius_black was created. [6]

[edit] 2004

On April 27, 2004, the fan site Siriusly Mione was created for the Sirius/Hermione ship. [7]
On July 29, 2004, the Livejournal community hermionesirius was created for the Sirius/Hermione ship. [8]

[edit] 2005

On January 18, 2005, the Livejournal community sirius100 was created. [9]
On January 30, 2005, the Livejournal community sirius_remus100 was created for the Remus/Sirius ship. [10]

[edit] 2006

On June 5, 2006, the Livejournal community blackcest100 was created for Blackcest. [11]

[edit] 2007

On August 1, 2007, the Livejournal community siriuslyshipp3d was created. [12]

[edit] 2008

On June 4, 2008, the Livejournal community grangerblack100 was created for the Sirius/Hermione ship. [13]
On December 27, 2008, the Livejournal community sirius_n_pansy was created for the Sirius/Pansy ship. [14]

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[edit] Influential Stories

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[edit] See also

[edit] Sources

Below is a partial list of articles and academic sources to help you continue to learn about this community.

Dadds, Kimberley. "Harry Potter Fan Fiction Phenomenon." Digital Spy 9 July 2007. 10 July 2007 <http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/a63822/harry-potter-fan-fiction-phenomenon.html?rss>.

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