I Love Harry Potter - Forum & Chat Board | Fan Fiction

So what are people's thoughts on harry potter fan fiction? Disagree with its existence, think it's legit, read it, write it, think it improves upon the series/fill in holes appropriately, think it's horrible and brings the series down....?

Is there Harry Potter fan fiction out there? I had no idea...

Well, I don't know. If you're writing it just for fun and aren't going to do anything with it, more power to you brother/sister/mother...whatever! It's an easy way to expand your creative prowess, and its fun!

But I don't agree with publishing it or trying to continue the series. Rowling really should have killed Harry, because now its pretty much for certain some fop out there is going to try to write something and pawn it off as ligitimate. Didn't they do that in China a couple of times? I think Harry Potter is just...as Rolwing wrote it, and to try to add to it might be tampering with the fabric of the universe. Live and let die, I suppose.

Think I'll start by writing "Tales of magical love" (volume 1: Harry and Ginny, volume 2: Ron and Hermione). [Just teasing Violabunny!]

Also I could do "Unleashing the Power Within" (a self-help manual by Neville Longbottom, for witches, wizards and muggles the world over).

There needs to be a spiritual one: "The rebirth of Draco Malfoy" (written by his mum after whats-his-name copped-it).

;-)

I was rather suprised that after I finished the 7th book he did not die, but I still think it ended well, we now know that Harry marries Ginny and Hermione marries Ron, which is actually what I thought would happen. I think one part that amazed me was the part where the whole truth comes about Snape. I thought bad of him all throughout, and it turned out that he was not who we all thought he was.

In some ways I found Snape the most intriguing of all of the characters in HP.  I guess it's the ambiguity that made him fascinating.  In the first book, when it is revealed that he saved Potter during the quidditch game it's set up that he may be a guardian-angel of sorts, but what a *fallen* guardian angel after the all the bullying of Potter in potions lessons.  Also at the climax of the third book, Snape's participation is important but ambiguous.  Throughout most of the fifth I found myself worrying about which side Snape was really on.  I think there were very strong hints in that book that Snape had fallen for Potter's mum.  I guessed that was why he hated Potter's dad.  It was at the end of the sixth that I finally thought I knew where Snape stood.  Just as well I was wrong!

On the topic of fan-fiction, maybe some key chapters from Snape's point of view would be fun?

Wow Imperiused - you write fanfiction?  Any online anywhere?  Sounds like you put real thought into it so if you've made any of it public I'd rather start by reading yours than others'.  Never tried reading or writing it myself.

When I said chapters from Snape's point of view I didn't mean I was thinking of writing them. The one time I really wanted to write about characters, what you might call fan fiction, is when I got to the end of that TV series Dawson's Creek and found myself really unsatisfied with the written ending. Having said that there was quite a lot of good stuff in the finale, and the episode prior to the finale wrapped-up pretty well I thought.

Will check if anyone else on EP is interested in Dawson's Creek and perhaps raise this elsewhere too.

So anxious was I to read book seven, I was scouring the internet for all things Harry. I found a "Leaked" copy of Deathly Hallows. I downloaded it, guilt-free because I knew that I'd still be in line at midnight to buy the hardback the night it came out.

But this was not the JK's work. It was fanfic. It was eerily, scarily accurate though. As far as what the horcruxes were, as far as several plot points on the book...

But it was also extremely different.

 

I think it was written by a younger person though, because it focused more on the relationships of the core characters with the action being on the side. It was there, but the book was more about how these things affected the characters instead of JK's style - the action being the main part, and the characters living in the world and its chaos.

I read and write. I think its a way to relive the harry potter series with your favorite characters without having to read the same old story over and over. I do post my stories on fanfiction.net so other people can read it but i don't sell them or anything like that because that would be an insult to JK Rowling and all the stuff is copy written to her so it would be kinda illegal