Fanfic Recommendations: The Next Generation

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Pretty much all of my favorite fanfics seem to fall into the category of "crack premise written seriously," and while I'm not sure I'd place them quite so highly, that does seem to be tkepner's specialty. The Defensive Space Force Ship Requirement got a reccomendation here not too long ago IIRC, and having just finished Hedwig Harry! it's also good fun, and has the additional virtue of being completed. You're probably not going to find any life changing, earth shaking classics of modern literature here, but they're a good way to while away a few enjoyable hours.

Hedwig Harry! at m.FFn - 124,000 words in 19 chapters
Pre-crapilogue Harry gets drunk and into an argument over a rediscovered ancient spell/ritual/poem/tongue-twister with Hermione and a couple of work friends, only to wake up in the past, as an owl: Hedwiig specifically, in the Forbidden Forest early in his younger self's first year at Hogwarts. Hijinks, tomfoolery, and shenanigans ensue, along with a number of funny stories for the centaurs to tell their foals about the owl that forgot how to fly and kept planting its beak in the dirt.