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[fpb]

As time goes on, I find that I get more touchy and less willing to put up with a great deal of fanfic bad habits. I mentioned a while ago the fics that spend a great deal of time and ingenuity in breaking up canon relationships and getting Harry in bed with Draco or Hermione. Another one that honks me off is the kind where Dumbledore is bad-mouthed - and I just stopped reading a particularly egregious specimen, in which the people who morally condemn Dumbledore are (get ready for this) several Marvel characters. It does not seem to have occurred to the self-righteous twit who wrote it that if we go through the Marvel canon, we shall find far worse than Dumbledore's supposed manipulative streak. That the writer him or herself was displaying appalling self-righteousness would not, of course, occur to him/her. And then there is the usual slash Draco or nice Draco bullshit. There are times when having fought with half Harry Potter fandom seems to me a positive badge of honour.

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[baduin.livejournal.com]

Don't be offended, but actually why are you writing Harry Potter fanfiction? From what I've read, you are certainly good enough to write your own stories.

Moreover, Harry Potter books seem a bad source for fan-fiction.

The books are certainy a very pleasant read, but rather for some characters, and mostly for interesting action and sense of humor. They lack world-building which could exists independently from the novels: when you consider the world of Harry Potter on its own, it either collapses or requires elaborate explanation quickly diverging from the novels. This is by no means a criticism of the novels: the world fulfills its artistic function, and it would be a mistake for Rowling to over-develop it.

But when you try to write fiction in that world, you get mostly the short end of the stick: you can copy the world, which is not that useful; but you have to provide the sense of humor and the action yourself- in direct competence against the strong points of the original.

Your stories are of course quite good - but I don't exactly see what they gain from being fanfiction, except for some audience. But what good is a non-paying audience? And if you get fascinated by a character, isn't it better to develop him or her independently, in your own story or world?

[fpb.livejournal.com]

This is all built on what I am supposed to feel. Except that I feel nothing of the kind. As far as I am concerned, you are talking about things that do not exist. I do not want to sound offensive, but everything you say is the exact opposite of everything I experience and know.