Thanks!

I'm happy to announce: HFA is now readable on The Lost Tales! by Neshomeh on 2025-03-09 16:09:28 UTC Reply

To copy my notes off the index page:

Although both The Hogwarts Fanfiction Academy and its sequel In the Keeping of HFA are both still accessible via Fanfiction.net, the latter in particular has suffered from terrible formatting decay and is practically unreadable. With the help of the Wayback Machine, I’ve been able to restore most of the original text of the latter. (Though sadly not quite all; a couple lines are still missing from chapter 14, “The Fanwriters’ New Clothes.”) Therefore, since I decided to rehost the sequel, I thought I might as well rehost the entire contents of Meir Brin’s original HFA website.

As usual in this archive, I have made conservative edits to correct indisputable misspellings and other errors. I have also attempted to standardize orthographic features across both stories, including the capitalization of special words, the use of hyphens vs dashes, and the placement of end punctuation in relation to quotation marks. Additionally, I’ve replaced asterisks denoting emphasis or internal thoughts with italic text formatting. If you spot any errors I’ve missed (or any I’ve introduced), please let me know!

~Neshomeh

Hooray! by eatpraylove on 2025-03-22 22:37:08 UTC Reply

Always a pleasure to hear about stuff being preserved, especially when it fixes formatting errors I wasn't sure I even noticed in the first place!
Nice! I'm glad you're doing all this archival work, Nesh! (nm) by Tomash on 2025-03-17 04:15:37 UTC Reply
Wow! This must have been quite a project! by doctorlit on 2025-03-13 12:47:17 UTC Reply

Congratulations on hard work well done! Crazy to think such a major work from the old days was starting to decay . . . but now both of them are safe and stored again, thanks to you!

—doctorlit bows to Neshomeh

I concur on all counts with doc here; I heartily applaud your hard work. by Linstar on 2025-03-13 20:47:58 UTC Reply

I don't think I ever finished reading HFA, actually, so this would be the perfect opportunity to do so.

--Ls
Thanks! by Neshomeh on 2025-03-13 15:06:44 UTC Reply

I started in January, I think. It started with just compiling lists of students, because I was curious about how many were also Boarders and/or agents, but there was so much text eaten away from the sequel, I had to try the Wayback Machine to continue. At which point I basically thought, in for a penny, in for a pound. {= ) It was a nice thing to work at a little bit at a time, when I didn't have time or focus for other stuff.

~Neshomeh hopes to have both time and focus for other stuff soon!