Steve's Canon versus Fanfic Post

[Steve Vander Ark]

No: HPFGUIDX 16421


> Steve, add another name to the list of people who don't care for 
> fanfic.  I agree with everything you have said (including your 
first 
> post on the matter).  I also don't care if people write and/or read 
> fanfic.  I just personally don't like it and don't know why so many 
> people are offended when I say so.

I do understand this, actually. The folks I know who write fanfic put 
at least as much loving care and painstaking effort into it as I do 
into the Lexicon. It's hard to hear someone say they don't like 
something when you've put your heart and soul into it. I certainly 
don't mean to talk fanfic down, but I can easily see where it feels 
that way to the authors. I might have to struggle with being a little 
hurt if someone was on here saying how they thought the Lexicon 
wasn't the way they wanted to enjoy Harry Potter and voiced their 
opinion that they refused to even check it out and talked about it as 
if it were contamination of the books. Please, my dear friends (and 
some of my best friends on here write and love fanfic), don't take my 
comments in that light. I support your work and take delight in our 
common love of this wonderful fictional world JKR has given us. 

Steve
(fondly still)