[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Fanfiction For Grownups-from the main list

[Susanne Schmid]

  puddlemereunited at yahoo.co.uk wrote: 
<snip>

<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


As this was posted to the main list, I suppose it's not meant for Saitaina alone. 

1) I openly confess that I *did* need a box of tissues for GoF, because I cried during the "Priori Incantatem" chapter and also when Cedric died.

2) I was about to write an answer very similar to Saitaina's, as I had checked out your FF and found the use of four-letter words rather appalling. You hadn't mentioned *what* kind of parody it was in the summary. Anyway, even if I had known, I doubt whether I would have found it very funny.

3) Why are you so strongly against sex/romance and don't say a word against violence? The latter is a phenomenon dealt with in the HP books and, I daresay, not in a very "childlike" way- Voldemort's "Kill the spare!" is worthy of a gestapo officer. JKR already surreptitiously slipped in some hints at not-so-chaste things going on at Hogwarts (e.g. Percy kissing Penelope Clearwater) and I agree with those who already answered your post that sex will be one more "adult"-topic to come up in the next books, as violence and cruelty did in PoA and more so in GoF.

So, be tolerant with your fellow writers and prepare yourself for having to be tolerant with JKR.

Susanna/pigwidgeon37





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