Magnetic Attraction

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Magnetic Attraction is a Harry Potter fic written by frizzy.
It features the pairing Harry/Draco and mpreg and is one of the earliest examples of Veelafic.
In the original version, frizzy gave the readers choices at the end of every chapter so they could give their input regarding what they would like to see next.Author's end notes for Chapter 1 in the archived PDF version of the Forever Fandom post: "For those that don’t know me very well, I’d like to say that at the end of each chapter I give a number of choices for the reader to choose from. This gives me help when I need it and makes the reader more involved. I’ve found that my previous readers appreciate it and since then other authors have started to do the same." Accessed Sep 18, 2016.
Magnetic Attraction was deleted multiple times off FFnet.frizzy. AFF Profile. "I have decided to post Magnetic Attraction here after being pulled off fanfiction.net four times." Accessed Sep 18, 2016. During the course of this, frizzy posted the fic to multiple different archival sites,Internet Archive Wayback Machine. frizzy Forever Fandom Profile. "Due to the fact that my main fic, Magnetic Attraction, has been banned, I decided to post here." Snapshot from Dec 14, 2011, accessed Sep 18, 2016. eventually returning to FFnet as frizzy returned.frizzy returned. FFnet Profile. "My name is frizzy, and I’ve returned once more to fanfiction.net." Accessed Sep 18, 2016.
Magnetic Attraction is not complete. Frizzy indicated an intention to finish the fic,frizzy returned. FFnet Profile. "I just wanted to let you all know that I do intend to finish this fic in the future, no matter how long it takes." Accessed Sep 18, 2016. but there have been no updates since 2005, and the author seems to have vanished off the 'net.
==Versions==
Originally, 43 chapters were posted. This is the version posted to FictionAlley, and to Forever Fandom under the title "Magnetic Attraction" (with three subsequent chapters consisting solely of author's notes). (The only existing copy of this online seems to be this PDF file of the Forever Fandom post of the fic.) Later, frizzy abandoned this version in favour of greatly revising and expanding the first 25 chapters, with the intention of doing the same to the rest. This is the version posted to AFF and FFnet. It was posted to Forever Fandom under the title "Magnetic Attraction revised". (The only complete version is the AFF post.)
==Summary==
Author's summary: 
==Impact on Fandom==
Altogether, over the various versions posted on different sites, Magnetic Attraction received well over 10,000 comments.Interview with Frizzy, file in the Magnetic Attraction Yahoo Group, posted Feb 19, 2004, accessed Sep 18, 2016. "I was pulled off fanfiction.net the first time for being an interactive fic, in other words, the choices, which to me, was a petty reason. A fic is always going to be interactive because you use what people say in reviews to help you change and develop your work. I just asked for help which would have been given anyway. I was sad to see that all the reviews I’d collected, I was told the figure was about 10,000, were deleted. [...] I was pulled the second time for posting an authors note as a chapter, which I accept. That was the official reason, but the main reason was because people did not like my disclaimer, which is why I posted the rant on foreverfandom.net." As one of the very first Veela!Draco stories, it hugely influenced fandom's love of the trope, and a lot of people subsequently adopted ideas from it. Inevitably, parodies also abounded - Not Just Another, 'Oh no, Draco's a Veela story' by Relle is one example.
foryourpleasure called MA a "somewhat sweet and simpering [...] story that has both its fans and detractors",foryourpleasure. Harry Potter: Harry/Draco Recs Hogwarts Era, posted Sep 4, 2009, accessed Oct 3, 2016. and irana said it was "[l]ikely the most popular story out there in this niche." irana. Veela Fic List, posted Jan 22, 2015, accessed Oct 3, 2016.
==Controversy==
Frizzy expressed anger at how much of MA's plot devices had found their way into other Veelafic:
Frizzy also struggled with people flaming MA and reporting it for violating FFnet's TOS, and strongly considered not writing anymore as a result:
In an interview posted to the Magnetic Attraction Yahoo Group, Frizzy explained the reasons Magnetic Attraction was pulled - the first time, for being an interactive fic, and the second time, for posting an author's note as a chapter without any actual story content. The third time, the fic was pulled because of the author's note that was posted as chapter 43.
==References==
Category:Slash Fanfiction
Category:2000s