Berkeleyjake
Bio
I got into HP fan fiction when I was thirty years old. I had loved the books when I was younger, and I even have a signed copy of Order of the Phoenix. I've always enjoyed fantasy books, science fiction, anything to push the boundaries of the imagination.
In January 2021 I lost a job due to covid cutbacks and while looking for something new, I'm writing my first fic of my own. Harry Potter and the Guise of Family.
I plan to split it up into different years, mostly because I plan on increasing the rating for the story in later years and I want to keep the first two years at a T rating before going higher. There won't be smut but there will be mature themes.
Due to the responses I received from people after the first map I made, detailing where Harry grew up, I've created another one that has the other locations I'm using in the story.
https://www[doot]scribblemaps[doot]com/maps/view/Guise_Full_Map/GuiseMap
The map software had some icons of pokemon that I used for the legend, I'm not saying pokemon or things resembling them exist in my story, they were just convenient to use.
This is the Reddit post and my initial ideas that inspired the story:
https://www[doot]reddit[doot]com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/lt7j4h/harry_had_always_wanted_to_have_a_loving_family/
Before I started writing officially, I wrote a lot of my thoughts on a quora blog and responded to questions there. Here is the link to all my saved HP stuff there.
https://bpblog[doot]quora[doot]com/
Some of the other resources I've used so far:
https://www[doot]wizardingworld[doot]com/writing-by-jk-rowling/the-original-forty
https://ahogwartsstudent[doot]wordpress[doot]com/2017/11/02/hogwarts-timetable/
https://www[doot]aswangproject[doot]com/strange-beasts-trees-philippines/ - This is one where I got a lot of my magical animals from