FF: Speculation - a matter of perspective;

[alhewison]

No: HPFGUIDX 38823

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Penny Linsenmayer <pennylin at s...> wrote:

> 
> <<< We all put our own spin on the characters. They're the same 
characters that JKR created. But, everyone looks at them in a 
different way.>>>>

For me, the Pros and Cons of Fanfic boil down to taste, and from the 
limited amount I have read they are not for me, they're simply not 
canon.  I believe that Fanfic is really going one stage further than 
the mass of speculation we see on this list. It's the stage further 
though that I can't get into. It's a theory, possibly brilliant, 
potentially written even better than canon (have I just committed 
heresy?) but it's somebody else's fiction. I admit I have only read 
small snippets of Fanfic, but the bits I have read were written in a 
very different style to JKR's, and using phrases I couldn't see *my* 
characters using.

I wonder if I'd like Fanfic that sounded like JKR's work any better 
than one's that don't. I think that they would actually be worse! To 
sound like JKR, but not be would be like seeing a mirage in the 
desert only to realise it wasn't real when you finally reached it.

I don't why, but I think I will enjoy Fanfic much more when (and if, 
as I'm getting increasingly desperate) the Harry Potter series is 
finished. Perhaps I'll then feel free to enjoy it as an addition to 
the series, when right now I'd only be reading it as a substitute.

Ali

(Back over 2 weeks after her computer blew up, causing smoke to 
billow into the room. A new motherboard, power supply and borrowed 
hard drive later, I'm still catching up with loads of great 
speculation.