LaFeeMechante

:"ginny_weasley" redirects here. For the Harry Potter character, see Ginny Weasley.
LaFeeMechante, also known as ginny_weasley, was a Harry Potter fan active in the early-to-mid 2000s. She wrote fanfiction, wrote essays, and created a series of meta-inspired fanart. She was also known for her involvement in a few fandom kerfuffles.
== History ==
=== Fannish Retirement ===
LaFeeMechante deleted her fan accounts, including her fannish LiveJournal and art journal and her accounts at FanFiction.net, FictionAlley, SugarQuill, and Checkmated sometime between 2008 and 2010. She later wrote that she had done so because she had "stopped writing for leisure when [she] entered the later years of high-school."dramionefanfiction. A message from LaFeeMechante herself. 20 September 2011. (Accessed 09 April 2012.)
Fans have since been sharing her fanworks among themselves and requesting saved copies all over internet. Though LaFeeMechante does not provide fans with her stories directly, she is supportive of fans' efforts to preserve the works.
In September, 2011, dramionefanfiction at Tumblr posted a saved version of LaFeeMechante's Draco/Hermione story Playing With a Dragon's Fire.dramionefanfiction on Tumblr. Playing With A Dragon’s Fire by LaFeeMechante. September 2011. (Accessed 09 April 2012.) LaFeeMechante sent the a message to the community thanking them for "keeping [the fic] alive." She writes in part:
LaFeeMechante's complete message can be read here.
== Fanfiction ==
* A Dragon Without his Fire (2003)LaFeeMechante (FanFiction.Net Author) at Fan History Wiki. (archived link; 22 sep 2015.)
* Angel Standing By (2003)
* Contradictions (2003) - Harry/Draco. Memories of a single night spent in the Astronomy Tower. Implied Slash.FictionAlley. Stories for LaFeeMechante. Archived 22 June 2008 by the Wayback Machine. (Accessed 09 April 2012.)
* On the Other Side (2003) - What happened on the other side of the curtain...?The Sugar Quill. LaFeeMechante. Archived 23 March 2005 by the Wayback Machine. (Accessed 09 April 2012.)
* Playing With a Dragon's Fire (pre-2004)Archive on Yahoo! Groups. Archived 10 October 2004 by the Wayback Machine. (Accessed 09 April 2012.) - Draco/Hermione. Based on Williams Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. There is only one rule in the game of seduction… Never fall in love. 26 chapters.
* Jenny (pre-2004) - Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione. When someone you love dies, are they really ever gone? When somebody you care for passes on, have they really left you forever? Post-Hogwarts story, H/G, R/Hr. Rated R for sexual themes. (Very roughly based off of the film 'Dragonfly' at the beginning). Unfinished WIP with 26 chapters.Checkmated Forums. H/g Fic By Lafeemechante, Anyone have it saved?. 13 February 2009. (Accessed 09 April 2012.)
* Whatever You Do - Don't. (pre-2004) - They say that everything happens for a reason. They say that you cannot change the past. These rules are easy enough to follow ... That is, until you are put in that position of power. So what would you do?Schnoogle. LaFeeMechante - Stories. (Archived 17 April 2004 by the Wayback Machine.)
* Born of Fire (2004) - The weather was unnaturally cold. The skies were perpetually overcast. The war had begun.
* Rhymes (2004) - Harry/Ginny; written for hpgw_ficafest. Harry's been so wrapped up in becoming a successful Auror that had hasn't stopped to realise he's been neglecting his marriage ... Someone has noticed however, and she refuses to be ignored..:: Rhymes ::. at hpgw_ficafest. Posted 30 June 2004. (Archived 04 July 2004 by the Wayback Machine.)
* Counting Sheep (2004) - Harry/Ginny first time fic.Rec by jra923 at crack_broom. Posted 28 November 2007. (Accessed 16 May 2013.) Written for hpgw_ficafest for the prompt: It's a very hot summer and to cool off, Ginny goes skinny-dipping.hpgw_ficafest. Master List, H/G Fic-A-Fest (1st Wave) May04-June04. Accessed 16 May 2013.
== Meta ==
* Symbolic Fight: Part #1 and Part #2 (July 2005) - an essay that caused lots of wank
=== wizzart ===
== Wank & Kerfuffles ==
See: Ginny Weasley at the Fandom Wank wiki
In 2005, LaFeeMechante very publicly protested the new rules adopted by Sink Into Your Eyes, a Harry/Ginny archive at which she posted fanfiction, that banned vulgar language in stories.Sing Into Your Eyes at the Fan History Wiki. (archived link; 27 Jan 2012.)
== References ==
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