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Dear Saitaina,

I am not sure if you are being completely honest when you say: "I'm 
not attacking you OR your fiction, no matter what it may seem", as 
your review was:

your story is appalling in it's use of four letter words and horrid 
characterization.
I've seen better plot-lines in those 'adult' stories then yours even 
came
close to having.

If this is not an attack, then I suggest you would do well to stay
out 
of the sympathy card business:)

As to your complaint, I suggest you look at the primary genre which
my 
fanfiction is listed under - PARODY.  My fanfic is a parody employing 
the Harry Potter world, but written in the style of Irvine Welsh's 
novels.  It asks the question "what if HP had been written for an 
audience of football hooligans rather than school children?"  It is 
meant to be a bit silly, and I'm sorry if you found it difficult to 
read... but which four letter word were you having trouble 
understanding? :)

But I do hope that next time you do spend those extra five minutes 
doing something more productive such as polishing up your own
argument 
as to why fanfiction must revolve around relationship problems that 
are either too smutty or too boring to be used on soap operas.

I do not think it necessary to deal with sex in a fanfiction.  You
say 
that all teenagers think about sex and want to have sex. I disagree.  
Most children the age of Harry and co. would rather spend the night 
with a warm PlayStation than a member of the opposite sex.
J.K. Rowling herself has done an admirable job in getting through
four 
books without belaboring the romance angle; in fact, the most she 
shows in her books are what could be considered "ambivalent crushes".
 
The day book five is released with a picture of Fabio with a 
lightening bolt scar on his forehead is the day I will feel romance
is 
necessary in writing HP fanfiction.
As for sex, even when dealt with "delicately", come on, who are you 
trying to kid?  Writing naughty stories about underage children is 
Pervy.  Ask yourself this:  Is this something Michael Jackson might 
do?  If the answer is yes, then it is Pervy.
Slash themes also seem to be at odds with writing within the 
boundaries of the HP world as well.  None of the characters have 
exhibited any sort of sexual preference besides heterosexual in the 
books.  I fear the whole point of Slash is to help writers who can't 
decide whether they would rather see Harry or Draco naked satisfy
both 
desires.

But as you point out, how can I complain when my own fanfiction is 
ridiculously out-of-character?  Well, I do not expect people to stop 
writing in whatever fashion they enjoy - I'd just like them to put
all 
stories that can be read only with a hanky and box of chocolates, or 
involve any Slytherin/Gryffindor tonsil hockey, or are written in the 
"style" of the Baby-Sitters Club, where they belong... under Parody, 
or Humor.  After all, none of us are writing Rembrances of Things 
Past, and we should keep that in mind.

Cheers,
Evelyn

PS: If you would like to read my HP Parody fanfiction, please look 
here:
http://fanfiction.net/profile.php?userid=114663