Good fanfics and where to find them [WAS] Re: 90% of everything is crap.

[vojoca <vojoca@yahoo.com>]

Hi everyone!


My apologies for responding a bit late to this....I'm (obviously) 
new.  A lurker for quite some time over at the HP4GU, and now I find 
myself here.  =)   Now on to my post:



Unfortunately, I haven't read that many ff.  There are a few reasons 
for this:

1.  I didn't want to confuse the *actual* HP books and story with 
them.  In the past I've been known to confuse books/stories and even 
the storylines of different movies and things in my own imagination; 
for some reason, my mind sometimes likes to play tricks on me and 
combine a few subplots and other little things together.  ;-P  
Needless to say, that's a big pain in the you-know-what trying to 
sort it all out!  =)

2.  I wanted to first read the entire series *and then* go back and 
see where everyone's imagination took them in between books while 
waiting for the next one, or just in general - see how close they 
came to JKR's books, how far they strayed, etc.  (I know that that's 
*not* the reason some if not most ff authors write; I'm just curious 
is all.  Who knows, someone out there may have hit the nail on the 
head as to the plot, etc.  JKR after all doesn't really read what's 
online...or does she?)

3.  The few fanfics that I *have* come across in the past I didn't 
really like.  Either it was the writing style, or it was too 
predictable, or it seemed like the author didn't really put much 
thought into it, or whatever.  So I just sort of gave it up.



Lately, though, I've been *wanting* to read them.  I'm pretty 
confident that I won't confuse them with the HP books =)  and I'm 
absoultely sure that there are tons and tons of excellent ones out 
there written by good writers.  So the question I have for all of you 
is:  

Where can I find them?  The ones that all of *you* like?  The ones 
that disturbed you the most?  The ones that made you feel warm and 
fuzzy inside?  That ones that *you wrote*?  



Waiting with baited breath,

vojoca