Timeline of Harry Potter Meta

This timeline covers meta about the Harry Potter fandom and canon that is documented on fanlore. 
==2000s==
===Exact Date Unknown===
* Draco Malfoy Is Not A Leather-Clad Bisexual Sex-God, early 2000s
* Ever so slightly longer but not quite as thick, originally posted sometime before 2006
* Slasher's Guide to Gay Sex by Faithfulreader, approx 2006
* On the Good ’Ship Granger/Snape by Red Hen, pre 2007
===2000===
* Harry Potter and Slash by Tinderblast
===2001===
* Depicting Minors in Sexual Acts in Fiction!
* Researching Fiction by CLS
* Writers University's Harry Potter Warner Brother Slash Positions
* How to Make a Good First Impression by Flourish Klink
* Mary Sueage (And How to Avoid It) by Flourish Klink 
* The Daily Prophet: A Malfoy Publication: a series of meta posts by multiple authors, including Cassandra Claire (April 12)
* Saint or Sinner? - All Things Characterisation - "A Sirius Matter" by JK Ashavah (July 21)
* Werewolf of Hogwarts by JK Ashavah (Dec 20)
===2002===
* A History of PotterWar, As Told by 17-Year-Old Heather
* Age of Consent? Ptui. What About the Real Problems? by Lexin (Jan 29)
* Saint or Sinner - All Things Characterisation - "The White Bumblebee" Albus Dumbledore by JK Ashavah (May 9)
* 2002 Interview with Arabella and Zsenya (May 17)
* To Fandom, With Love by Aja (Aug 8)
* Lust versus Love versus friendship versus slash culture versus blah blah blah by Aja (Dec 18)
===2003===
* The Very Secret Diary of Aja by Aja
* Saint or Sinner? - All Things Characterisation - "Character-Building" (March 14)
* My Letter to J.K. Rowling by Aja (March 21)
* Letter to X by Aja (April 1)
* OOTP, Harry/Draco, the Damnation of Slytherin, and the right of fans to be upset. by Aja (June 25)
* The Case for R/S, an essay on Remus/Sirius by elwing_alcyone (Aug 8)
* Robert Rodi and the Relationship of fans to their canon. by Aja (Aug 31)
===2004===
* Chapter 242 of Libertine's Guide to Surviving the Harry Potter Fandom without spontaneously combusting in an embarrassing way. (Jan 19)
* A Reader's Advice on writing good sex. by Aja (Jan 30)
* 'Elite' archives? by maeglinyedi (March 28)
* Weasels, Ferrets, and Draco Malfoy. by Aja (May 15)
* Voldemort and the AIDS Epidemic. by Aja (July 30)
* On JKR's Latest Interview. by Aja (Aug 15)
* An Open Letter to J.K. Rowling from Mugglenet and The Harry Potter Lexicon by Steve Vander Ark (Sept)
* Hex On, Hex Off! - Draco Malfoy and the Karate Kid. by Aja (Sept 12)
* My personal shippers' Manifesto by Aja (Sept 13)
* H/D fic, post-OOTP. And how we aren't writing any. by Aja (Oct 4)
* The Cassie Claire Primer (Oct 14)
* Defining Draco Malfoy. by Aja (Nov 28)
===2005===
* What makes someone a BNF? by Emma Grant and assort. commenters (July 7)
* A Random Evil by fernwithy (Sept 14) 
* Femslash - Feminism, Women, and Potterverse (Sept 26)
===2006===
* A Bit About FictionAlley
* The Myth of Total Fanfic by Sister Magpie (May 5)
* Slashcast Metachat with Jackie and Kath -- Age and Slashers (May 27)
* Me & CC; or, BNFs do not have more fun by Aja (June 18)
* The Woman who Sued Herself, or, "msscribe: the touching saga of one woman's rise from anonymity to stardom in Harry Potter fandom in five months." by mikkeneko (June 21)
* Quaternary intertextuality: fan fiction as a tool for analysis of canon fiction by edaindirith (July 26)
* It's time for HP fandom to put up or shut up by telesilla (Aug 16)
* Fandom and the Cult of Personality (Aug 18)
* If the Author is Dead, Who's Updating Her Website? J.K. Rowling and the Battle for the Books by Angua (Oct)
* The Right to Read by jedirita (Dec 2)
* Why People Tend Not To Favor Main Characters by Dylan Gleason (Dec 28)
===2007===
* Fandom Opinion by mijan (Jan 13)
* The Potterocalypse by dm_p (April 7)
* Crossing Rides (June 26)
* On Fear, Freedom, and Harry Potter Fan Fiction by melusinahp (July 7)
* Life After Deathly Hollows (Aug 18)
* Five Keys to Writing Post Deathly Hallows Harry/Draco by ravenna_c_tan (Sept 29)
===2008===
* A Great Writer. But - Christian? Fabio P. Barbieri (Jan 8)
* Tops and bottoms and bonding by Jane Elliot (June 25)
* Right place, wrong kerfluffle by sophia_helix (Aug 8)
==2010s==
===Exact Date Unknown===
* One of the funniest things about harry potter is how jkr accidentally made harry incredibly bisexual., no later than 2016
===2010===
* Unpopular fannish opinion: i feel bad about mocking the snapewives by seperis (Nov 13)
===2013===
* On Canon, Authorial Authority, and Queer Representation by idvo (Jan 2)
* House-Switching on Pottermore by River Taylor (Sept 11)
===2015===
* Fantastic Beasts & Invisible Diversity in the Harry Potter Series by Stitch of Stitch's Media Mix (Nov 25)
* SOME MORE AWESOME THINGS I LOVED FROM THE HP FANDOM BACK IN THE DAY (Aug 12) Note: authorship of this meta is contested, which affects the accuracy of its placement on this timeline.
* On JK Rowling’s thing about after the fact diversity by Stitch (Dec 22)
===2018===
* The Fall of Fandom Etiquette and the Rise of the Ship War by Clare McBride (May 16)
* And, to be perfectly honest, I miss the old Harry Potter fandom. by nothosaurus (Nov 17)
==2020s==
===2020===
* A BRILLIANT Reason For Why Floo Powder Exists by u/Comtesse_Kamilia (June 4)
==Notes==
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