"Unspeakable" Subjects

[ebonyink at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 9959

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Neil Ward" <neilward at d...> wrote:
> Responsible plugs and synopses for really good fanfiction are more 
than
> welcome, IMO.  Quite apart from anything else, it's useful to have a
> critical filter of the thousands of works-in-progress out there!

Great, Neil!  I'm glad... that's the one area in which Kathy and I 
know something about.  As a children's librarian and a middle school 
teacher respectively, I think we both qualify as fic UberReaders... 
we read all kinds of fics from the best to the worst.  ;-)  If we 
have another year to wait for JKR's book, then fan writing can fill 
in the spaces.

BTW, does anyone else wish that the movie being released in November 
was PoA or GoF?  I know... I have to be patient, but there'll be no 
Remus Lupin or Sirius Black.  (Shakes head.)
 
> 'Shipping' posts are loved and hated in equal measure, but I don't 
think we
> could ban them.

(Cackles wickedly.)  That makes me glad.  I've some new H/H theory 
potions bubbling in my cauldron... I would have hated to don my no-
shipper mask.

> [Side note: I recently uploaded an updated list of acronyms and 
shorthand
> often used here, which includes fanfic and shipping terms, so I 
would hardly
> want to suggest that we shouldn't discuss these things..]

(Cackles again.)  Oh, I know.  I just wanted to set a good example 
for the newcomers. 

Thanks for the clarification, Neil... as always, you're beyond cool 
even if you are an authority-type around these parts.  <vbg>

--Ebony