Fanfic yes or no and why?

[Jennifer Piersol]

Amy wanted to know if we read fanfic or not...

<big ol' snippity-snip>

Well, yes, but not as much as I started out reading.  When I first 
found out about ff.net, I went nuts (this was um... about 9 months 
before GoF came out, I think).  Read everything... and hated almost 
all of it.  It got to the point where I'd just scan the list of more 
recent additions for names that I knew - and once in a while I'd read 
something that someone mentioned on the club/group.  Now, I find that 
I don't even bother going to ff.net anymore (yes, I'm a non-reviewing 
reader... so shoot me).  I basically stick to Lori's (Summers... of 
PoU fame) group and read the fics there (I love all the fics posted 
there for various reasons...).

So yes I do read fanfiction (even wrote one SAD little excuse for a 
story... but you'll never find it because I'm never telling you my 
penname... muahahaha!), and I probably would choose to read it if I 
had to go back in time and choose again.  However, I would leave 
myself a note back then with just the good authors' names on it. ;)

I do have one regret.  My mind is forever polluted with fanon images. 
I can't explain the frustration I feel when I read the actual books 
and realize that Draco is a complete ass and I want to just kick him 
in the head.  Okay, maybe not in the head (boy, what a terrible image 
for a mom to have!  Yikes!), but in the rear end area, that's for 
sure (and it sure seems that in the books, that's where Draco's head 
is most of the time...).  But then, I don't know if I would be so 
terribly infatuated with Lupin if it weren't for Call of the Wild.  
So... I've just come to accept the fact that the two realms (canon 
and fanon, that is) are completely separate, and "never the twain 
shall meet".

Jen (who is, btw, drinking a lovely cup of jasmine tea, bought 
whole-leaf in a small red tin in Chinatown in Los Angeles... yum)