To fanfic or not to fanfic

[naama]

No: HPFGUIDX 10715

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> 
wrote:
> yael-pou wrote:
> 
> > I'm sorry. I did misunderstand your reason. You are truly 
obsessed, and have my appreciation for it. :)
> 
> Interesting. Those who read fanfic nonstop are obsessed because 
they can't get enough. Those who avoid fanfic to "save themselves for 
books 5-7" are obsessed because they're purists. This means 
something.
> 

Precisely - it is conventional wisdom that a fanatic would sooner 
convert to the opposite extreme than become moderate. The obsession 
is revealed by the intensity of adherence to either (extreme) 
position. <g>

BTW, I'm pretty much a purist myself, but I did read PoU. I was so 
curious I just had to. But, although it is indeed very good, I didn't 
like the effect it had on me. It was invidiously "contaminating" (in 
sense of Mary Douglas's definition of dirt as "matter out of place") 
my original vision of HP world. 

Naama

Naama