EWE

See also: ewe, Ewe, and -ewe

English

Noun

EWE (countable and uncountable, plural EWEs)

1. Initialism of extreme wildfire event.
2. (Harry Potter fandom slang) Epilogue, What Epilogue?; a subgenre of Harry Potter fanfiction which pointedly ignores the epilogue of the final novel.
   • 2009, Peggy Lin Duthie, “The Potterverse and the Pulpits: Beyond Apologia and Bannings”, in Giselle Liza Anatol, editor, Reading Harry Potter Again: New Critical Essays‎^[1], pages 45–46:

     A collective desire to explore some of the themes Rowling hadn't satisfactorily addressed helped fuel the development of hundreds of “Epilogue, What Epilogue?” (EWE) fanfics following the publication of Deathly Hallows.

   • 2015, Amanda K. Allen, “Social Networking, Participatory Culture and the Fandom World of Harry Potter”, in Gail Ashton, editor, Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture‎^[2], page 280:

     'EWE' (Epilogue-What Epilogue?) fics are similar to some AU stories in that they ignore the often-disliked epilogue of Rowling's Deathly Hallows, and instead create their own future of the Wizarding World.

   • 2019, Beatriz Brito do Nascimento, "No heteros in this heterotopia: Harry Potter slash fanfiction as heterotopian space", dissertation submitted to the University of Porto, page 120:

     Bringing beloved characters back to life is one of the most recurrent elements of EWE fics, […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:EWE.

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