HP: Dudley Dursley and the New Normal, by straydog733.

[thady]

FANDOM: Harry Potter
FIC LINK: Dudley Dursley and the New Normal (at DW) | Dudley Dursley and the New Normal (at FFN)
AUTHOR LINK: straydog733 | alikat522
RATING/WARNING(S): R
WIP?/WORD COUNT: novel | ~ 51,000 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Dudley Dursley; appearence of canon characters and OCs

FIC SUMMARY: Bad things happen. Life gets strange. Dudley tries to carve out a little bit of normality in a world that has gone mad around him.

RECCER'S NOTES:

This was posted at dudley_redeemed, and it is still one of my favorite stories posted at this fest.

I love the plot, and how it unfolded. Both plot and characterization work together and are interwoven. I love how wizarding Britain is depicted, and how Dudley fits himself into it. I love watching him grow and make himself a new life.

Comments

[pebblerocker]

It sounds great! Fic of that length I prefer to read on my ebook device rather than at the PC, so I really like the AO3's download as epub feature. I wish FFN had the same!

[thady]

It is :)

Sadly, the story isn't on AO3. I love the download function there too.

However, there are still fanfiction downloader that work with FF.net:

I tried two of them:

*) http://ficsave.com/ - you don't have to download the program for it to work (the epub isn't pretty though)

*) http://www.fanfictiondownloader.net/ - you have to install a program (you have also some data from fanfiction.net in the epub (Author, Title, Length, Genre,...))

Perhaps this might help. Otherwise, the story is only 4 installments on DW, instead of 32 chapters on FF.net.

Thanks for letting me know the story might interest you. I always love to hear from potential readers of stories I've recced. *g*

[pebblerocker]

Thanks for that info! I knew there would be a way of making ebooks myself but didn't know quite how - thank you for doing the legwork :)

[thady]

You're welcome!
I'm glad to have been of help. :)