OOTP net book copy?????????

[psychic_serpent]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "fairytaleprincss" 
<FairyTalePrincss at a...> wrote:
> hi heidi ... thx for your response and i checked out the sites you 
> cited ... i was given a copy last thursday of this "supposed" 
Order of the Pheonix "draft" and read it (actually engrossed with it 
would be better stated ... read it almost non-stop ... if it's a 
fake ... i take my hat off to the author ... whoever it might 
be) ... the document i received had been condensed to 553 continuous 
pages in a *.pdf file (which i guess would equal almost 800-900 
pages in book form including illustrations) ... it was very well 
written, no gramatical errors, consistent in its story telling as 
well as characterization, plot building, scenarios, etc. ... the 
only thing to me which seem to be "off" was a couple of sections 
where our "beloved heros" as they are "teen-agers" with 
raging "hormones" were .... well being "teen-agers" ... that just 
didn't seem to me that it would sit well with the folks at 
scholastic, but in the context of actual "teen-agers" in real 
life ... it didn't seem "imposible", but more as what would happen 
to a tight group of co-ed teens in a boarding school who were no 
longer kids but high school freshmen, juniors, and seniors ... if i 
were to give a movie rating to the document i read it would be PG 
due to these 3 minor scenes only ... and what i read did start off 
with harry in the garden on pivot drive ... i'm just curious now as 
how the author of this "fake" was able to keep up the sham through 
such a long and engrossing tale .... thoughts anyone????????????

Me:

Well, if there was a psychic garden snake in it named Sandy whom 
Harry found in the garden on Privet Drive, that was my fic "Harry 
Potter and the Psychic Serpent."  A slew of alert readers have been 
telling me that someone (maybe more than one someone?) has uploaded 
this onto Kazaa sites with the altered title, "Harry Potter and the 
Order of the Phoenix."  I have not been credited as the author and 
the folks who contacted me said they did a web search to find out 
who'd written it.  

Unfortunately, because of the anonymous nature of Kazaa, I have no 
way of knowing who's trying to pass off my work in this way.  It is 
in fact meant for older readers, rather than young kids (I've rated 
it R), but it was never meant to be a 'sham,' just fanfiction.  It's 
archived on numerous fanfiction sites and has two sequels and a 
prequel.  (My version of Harry's year seven and the prequel are 
still works in progress.) 

IMO, it's really not good to upload someone's work without asking 
their permission.  I wish I had some control over this, but without 
bothering to download Kazaa software myself, I can't even access the 
file-sharing sites and check to see whether people have posted files 
with all of my formatting and notes. It's a bit frustrating.  The 
least they could have done is keep my original title and credit me 
as the author, plus making it clear that it's a fanfiction and that 
no one (not me, at any rate) is trying to 'fool' people into 
thinking it's the new book.

--Barb

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