Potterfic

English

Etymology

From Potter +‎ fic.

Noun

Potterfic (uncountable)

1. (fandom slang) Fan fiction based on the Harry Potter series.
   • 2001 December 20, YN1 Bernadette M. Crumb, “Re: LONG speculative SPOILERS regarding Snape.”, in alt.callahans‎^[1] (Usenet):

     I'm not into slash, so I haven't read any of the Harry/Draco stuff, and I can ony^[sic] tolerate so much "teen romance" but some of the longer Potterfic pieces have some VERY interesting ideas being expounded.

   • 2002 November 11, Kuroi Kage, “Re: Draco Malfoy, bad to the bone?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter‎^[2] (Usenet):

     Well... I'm setting up for a clash between Draco and Harry if and when I ever get around to the third installment of my long Potterfic trilogy.

   • 2006, Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, volume 31, page 57:

     Of the three main characters of the Harry Potter series, only Hermione is so routinely morphed into flawlessness. Perhaps because girls who read and write Potterfic already identify with Hermione, they feel motivated to re-create her as an unattainable ideal, […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Potterfic.