----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Connor" <sec@zre.ca>
To: "WING Higley" <dpwinger2001@yahoo.com>
Cc: <ffml@anifics.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2005 6:57 AM
Subject: [FFML] Re: [General Fanfic Editorial] J.K. Rowling gets revenge on 
fanfic writers

WING Higley wrote:

I feel really sorry for our brothers and sisters in Harry Potter 
fanfiction.  There are screen captures of page 606 out now of "Half-Blood 
Prince," where Ms. Rowling proceeds to render virtually every single 
post-OOTP/post-graduation fanfic out of continuity.

That's an occupational hazard of writing fanfiction against a series
that hasn't been completed yet.  At any moment, the author can turn your
continuation into an AU with the stroke of a pen.

Having read the entire book, and listened just a bit to the whining, I just 
have to say I don't get it when the fans complain about the author making 
"clich�" choices in the book. I mean, they're only "clich�" because everyone 
saw them coming and wrote a fanfic about it - and JKR does *not* read 
fanfic, since that would be very stupid for many, many reasons.

I think she did a good job on this book - she confirmed some long-standing 
suspicions, threw us several curve-balls, opened up a few new cans of worms, 
and shed some light on the past. She also pulled some new stylistic tricks 
on us which were a welcome addition, and introduced some new characters. All 
in all, just like the last five books...

It also gives me occasion to point a finger and laugh really really hard at 
a whole category of fic-writers, who are going to have a very hard time 
writing new stories in their particular absurd genres after events in this 
book - neener, neener, neener, I say. You know who you are....

There, a nice, AFAICT spoiler-free editorial of the new book...

SP 


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