""OMG We're in the NY TIMES!""

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

Heidi has posted this information and the URL on the FictionAlley 
Point Me! page. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/05/books/05HARR.html

HP and low gossip are the ONLY thing that could make me break down 
and actually REGISTER on the NY TIMES site (which is free but 
requires people to register).

The article is really about the prolonged wait for Book V. It 
attributes HP websites and fanfic to people getting bored or 
desperate during the wait. It goes so far as to say: "It took         
decades of "Star Trek" reruns to inspire a genre of "fan fiction,"
but just two years without a Harry Potter book." They should have 
checked their facts better: I PERSONALLY remember reading and writing 
Star Trek fanfic during the third season, and it seems there were 
HP websites with fanfic before PoA was published: I only found it 
for myself after PoA but before GoF. 

It did get some facts right: It mentions Steve by name and his 
Lexicon by URL and Heidi by name and her FictionAlley by URL. 
Without names, it states: " In one popular story, Harry Potter and
his schoolboy nemesis, Draco Malfoy, grow up to be gangsters and gay 
lovers in London."