OK, I'm a bit late to the fan fiction party, having only read my first story in early 2015. (I know, I know.) I had just finished the books and movies with my kids, having finally chained HBP/DH by myself in about four days before devouring their box set of DVDs, and was disquieted by the void where the pre-epilogue years should have been. Ever the romantic -- not to mention, the adult -- I NEEDED to have detailed accounts of the two canon couples getting together, immediately. SOMEbody has written this, I thought... and boy y'all did not disappoint! Thus did my midlife crisis begin. Well, maybe not crisis, but definitely my midlife obsession! Bit by bit their stories were filled in, until I had a reasonably satisfactory picture of the post-Hogwarts years and the characters' early adulthood. But it turned out H/G and R/Hr were just a gateway drug! After weeks of fidelity to the Trio-plus-1, I accidentally got sucked into a H/Hr one night, and the house of cards began to topple. Several more Harry stories led to my virtuous Hermione becoming a serial monogamist with Charlie, Viktor, Bill, a moment of Remus, and finally my-I-mean-her true love, Sirius. We were and are all in for the hottest Marauder! I resisted all the Slytherin men (ew?!) for the longest time, unable to comprehend how so many readers could be so hot and bothered by the likes of Draco (my girl would NEVER) or (shudder) Snape?! Gross! But once again, a single accidental click for each of them -- along with possibly a review or twenty of the respective actors' current-day photos -- caused me to reconsider and eventually sucked me in, resulting in those two characters' names being my most frequently keyed search terms at the moment! I still reject Death Eater pairings (including most Lucius, sorry don't hate), James (he's a one-woman man), way-underage smut (I have a teenager), most time travel, most slash... and ALL poorly written/poorly betaed stories. As a professional editor myself, I find it way too distracting to try to look beyond sloppy grammar, clumsy structure and improper punctuation, no matter how compelling the story. Stories and authors don't make it to my Favorites list easily! Oh and I've had my heart broken too many times to begin another WIP, period. If it doesn't say Complete, and/or the final chapter isn't titled Epilogue, even with 1,200 tearful reviews I am just not going there. A girl needs closure, after all. Why am I not contributing my own writing? Suffice to say my continual shock that the oily Potions Master could, in other writers' hands, even come close to believably threatening (as it turns out he does) the reign of his old school rival as the sexiest wizard in the 'verse affirms my own critical shortage of the imagination and originality of thought that I feel great storytellers must possess. So I'm beyond content to thrill to the words of others. But I'd be a hell of a beta! Clearly the heyday of the HP fandom peaked a few years ago, but I'm glad there's still an abundance of wonderful writing out there for me to discover, and that new authors and stories continue to arrive on the scene. Cheers! |
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