"Harry Potter" fan fiction went mainstream in 2025. In 2023 and 2024, fan fiction about Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger — or Dramione, to their fans — went viral. Stories long beloved by the fic ...

When I was in high school, I experienced a canon event in every young nerd’s life: I was obsessively engaging with a piece of pop culture and found myself thinking, “Wait … why aren’t these characters ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Emma Watson, seen at the world premiere of "Little Women" in 2019, played Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films and is ...

Fan fiction — the creation of unsanctioned, unofficially published, new works usually based on popular novels or films — was intentionally never mainstream. There are the legal issues — copyright laws ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A generation of readers came of age loving fanfic for the same reasons I did—because fan fiction, at its best, is about so much ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Alchemised" by SenLinYu hit No. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list. "Alchemised" was originally the fanfic "Manacled," based ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When I was in high school, I experienced a canon event in every young nerd's life: I was obsessively ...