Hello! Back again with a new story; I really should be finishing up the latest chapter on The Boggart Man, but I couldn't resist. This is just a prologue, though, so chapters will be much longer from here on out. Honestly, the only reason I even have a prologue is because I felt weird jumping straight into the story. But anyways, usual disclaimers apply (by the way, this is for the whole fic), and happy reading!
Because switching gender isn't simply putting a dress and a pretty name on a boy, is it? A lot of the preoccupations and expectations are different on men and women, and so the books would have been incredibly different, I think.
— J. K. Rowling, The Women of Harry Potter
James Potter. Father of Harry Potter. Husband of Lily Potter née Evans. Marauder.
Sirius Black. Prisoner of Azkaban. Godfather to Harry Potter. Marauder.
Remus Lupin. Werewolf. Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. Marauder.
Peter Pettigrew. Death Eater. Secret-Keeper. Former Marauder.
Four young men who are integral to the fate of the Wizarding World.
Or at least, they are in one universe.
In another, there are four young women who play that role.
Jeniah Potter.
Estella Black.
Cynthia Lupin.
Paisley Pettigrew.
This is their story. And it's a lot different than the one you think you know.
I have seen a fair amount of Genderbent!fics, but most of them have been abandoned early on. Up to chapter ten has been written, so no problem here! I've even got a few hundred words about the characters' children. It's pretty much all plotted out, and all of the genderswapped!characters have been decided.
I really hope I do this idea justice. It's a bit cliche, I know, but this has been bugging me for ages, and I just had to write it down. But what sets this story apart, I think, is that this won't be a story where the characters are genderswapped and literally nothing else changes. There's a lot of potential for change when males are given female expectations and brain compositions (research was done here), and vice-versa.
By the way, about the names, I tried my best not to just use the feminine/masculine version of the characters' names, and made sure to put a lot of thought into the meanings of them. I chose names that matched both the meaning that J. K. originally chose, and ones that also matched the character's personality. It always annoys me when authors just flip the name's gender (examples off the top of my head: Siria Black, Remy Lupin, etc.), because to me, it shows that they didn't put to much effort into really changing the characters' genders. But that might be just me.
Tell me if you're interested, because I probably won't put as much effort into this in favor of The Boggart Man if there aren't any readers.
Sorry for the long A/N; I've got a lot to say about this story, so I'm sticking it all here at the prologue. No more will be this long!