James Potter and the Hall of the Elders' Crossing

[Geoff]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "bboyminn" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:

bboyminn:
> To me this is one of the most amazing things about the Harry
> Potter phenominon; the massive creativity it has spawned. On
> a popular fan-fiction site, last time I check, Harry Potter
> has 5 or 6 times as many stories as the next closest genre.
> I believe #2 might have been Lord of the Rings with 50,000,
> But Harry Potter, at the time, has close to 250,000 stories
> on file.

Geoff:
I've just taken the time to check out www.fanfiction.net, which is
one of my favourites. The figures are even more impressive now.

As of 21:00 today, the top seven on the leaderboard (assuming I
didn't go cross-eyed while I was looking) are:

Harry Potter 426040
Twilight 111085
Lord of the Rings 42553
Phantom of the Opera 9145
Song of the Lioness 8235
Maximum Ride 7528
Chronicles of Narnia 5793

Being thick, I don't recognise the fifth and sixth groups. Anybody
fill me on on them?

In passing, James Potter and the Hall of the Elders' Crossing is on
www.fanfiction.net, author glippert.