New member intro. Hi all! :o)

[John]

No: HPFGUIDX 192363

Hi everyone, I just joined this group.

I'm called John and I am an adult Harry Potter fan and also a fan fiction writer within and other genres such as The Hunger Games, which is another of my obsessions. 

I am perhaps one of the older people to be interested in these books as I will be sixty in a couple of months time, but it is nice to be able to communicate with other adults are also interested in JKR's amazing creation, hence my interest in joining this group.

I am also in direct contact via PM on a major fan fiction site with some other older HP fan writers several of whom are superb at what they do, but have found that there are also a great many other far younger writers who also pen excellent stories, some of whom I also correspond with from time to time. I'm a bit odd in that whilst I love to read mostly very 'canon' true to the original text amateur stories when I write I can get some very non canon ideas and indeed sometimes indulge in flights of fancy that are a bit 'bonkers'. :o) 

Most of my HP based tales however are set in my own post war 'version' of the Wizarding World, as I see it developing between the final battle and the Epilogue, which is a chunk of time large enough and vaguely defined enough to give a writer 'imagination room'. 

It has been a while since I indulged my taste for message boards, and those I previously regularly posted on were of a different nature (see my email name for a clue). I stopped visiting these as I became unhappy about the factionalism, egoism and 'internal politics' that began to occur far too often and have been 'keeping my own counsel' and staying out of the online Druidic and Pagan scene for a while now.

However here this kind of thing is, I hope, very unlikely to occur, so I thought that having an interest in the subject matter I'd sign up and say hello. 

By the way, just for info I'm a Brit, so half the 'spelling errors' I may make aren't really, they're just UK English so don't be surprised to see words ending in ise instead of ize and things such as colour rather than color appearing in my ramblings. ;o)

I refuse to bow to the tyranny of US English spell checker software and stubbornly 'stick to my guns', leaving all the red underlined words exactly as they were intended! :o)

Many Blessings All.
John, (Oriondruid).