Yesterday's chat...

[Ebony AKA AngieJ]

Rarely do I read the chat transcripts, because rarely do I miss the 
entire Sunday chat.  But this afternoon, I went to the Chat Archives 
and read the insanity... here's a few things I would have said...

1)  AngieJ Trelawney's First Prediction:  Dai and Sinead will be our 
fandom's first real-life couple.  Don't laugh... in another fandom I 
participate in, three marriages have happened between folks who met 
each other on-list.  Hey, if it can happen for Tom Hanks and Meg 
Ryan, it can happen to the HP4GU community too...

2)  Rebecca and Jana:  George may be the better twin (although this 
is questionable), but Fred has got all the better lines in canon.  Ha.

3)  Keith will not rest until he has converted the entire world to 
D&D fanaticism.  <g>

4)  Rebecca and Amanda will not rest until they have converted the 
entire fandom into a bunch of Snape sympathizers.  <vbg--they've 
almost succeeded with me, because I keep having to re-read GoF after 
chats to remember why I hate that character so much!>

5)  After much contemplation, I've decided not to can TiP because of 
its glaring inaccuracies and Americanisms (thanks to Scott, Michelle, 
and the rest of the folks at the July 8 meet for their 
encouragement!).  I'm having too much fun writing it.  I'm learning 
this summer that many other fanfics that I've read and love are just 
as inaccurate.  TiP's last chapter and the sequel will be a bit more 
accurate than the previous, but can't be fully on-target--after all, 
you can take the writer out of America, but you can't take America 
out of the writer.

Hats off to all the Brits in the fandom, who are kind enough not to 
nitpick us fan writers who are from elsewhere and who are gracious 
enough to have fun along with us!

--Ebony AKA AngieJ (who is looking forward to the HP4GU-London meet, 
part deux)

(P.S.  Forgive the spelling/grammar errors in my previous post on 
Paris.  I am rotating three different OTC medicines (one from the US, 
one from Boots here in Oxford, and some strange French one that I 
purchased via gesturing) to clear up this cold, so my brain's a 
little foggy right now.  :))