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How a 500,000-Word Harry Potter Fanfiction Blew Up Online
The 188-chapter story has taken over the internet and spawned a fandom of its own. Rachelle Hampton of Slate’s internet culture-obsessed podcast, *ICYMI*, explains how we got here.
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