3354: Apocalypse - the HP cast
Don't forget about the fanfic contest. I found this quote from tumbler for the link of the day. I think you guys will like. For today's Flashback Sue I'm picking a story from Snape's Daughter week.
TITLE: Apocalypse
PERPETRATOR: StormyForeDragon
SUE-O-METER:
(toxic)
COVER/BANNER ART: It is a clip of the writer's avatar. I believe it is a picture of the writer and his cat. The cat's a gorgeous black cat.
SUMMARY:”The war between the Angels of Heaven and the Demons of Hell left devastating effects on the humans. The Greek Gods step in and choose their champions to save the world from zombies? Story is based in New Orleans Louisiana. SLASH! HP/SF-HG/DM-NL/LL. Characters are portrayed how i want them to be. Don't like, do read.”
FULL NAME: Harry and the entire Harry Potter cast/
SPECIES: They're original fiction characters the writer is trying to pass off as canon characters.
HAIR: n/a
EYES: n/a
MARKINGS: n/a
POSSESSIONS: n/a
CONNECTION TO CANON: None. This pieces is original fiction. The summary pretty much sums up what goes on. Ron and Ginny are character bashed at the beginning while Harry moons over Seamus. They decide to move him and the Dursley family to Hogwarts because of this random zombie apocalypse that the Greek Gods are going to step in and take care of.
ORIGIN: One of the writer's disclaimers says, “This story is based on the idea of the television program The Walking Dead. It was created by Frank Darabont. That doesn't mean I am going to use his characters. Time will tell, right now I'm just using the zombie aspect of it and such. The same could be said for the Resident Evil series.” Another one of the writer's disclaimers says this. “I will also be using an idea from the movie Legion. I have wanted to write something like it for some time now. Therefore this story will have multiple ideas and plot plays here.”
SPECIAL ABILITIES:
NOTES: One of the writer's disclaimers says this. “The characters will be OOC. This is fan fiction. If I wanted the characters to behave like Rowling portrayed them then I would write in her fashion. As I don't want to be sued for plagiarism, then the characters will behave as I want them to. If you want them to behave a certain way, THEN WRITE YOUR OWN STORY.”
If a writer is so scared of getting sued by the original writer that they feel they need to make the canon characters OoC then I think they should stick to writing original fiction because that's what they end up doing. (Have I featured this writer before? I think we've had a writer say something similar to this before.) This is particularly true when *gasp* the writer is known to have GIVEN permission for her characters and places to be USED in fanfiction! AKA Rowling isn't going to sue over the use of characters. Using her words... yes, but not this.
Anyways... I think the writer is trying to find an excuse for not keeping the characters in character more then anything. Making the characters OoC in your story also doesn't make your writing different either.
SAMPLE:
Harry was sitting in his room on Privet Drive. He was thinking about the last couple of days at school. Dolores Umbridge was arrested in front of the entire school for her use of dark items on the student body. The use of the Blood Quill got her ten years for each student she used it on. She received an additional fifty years for her continued torture of Harry. On top of that, her attempt to use an Unforgiveable Curse on a student got her fifty more years. Her admission of sending the Dementors got her life without a chance for parole and a possible death sentence for attempted murder.
With all of the bad, there was the good. Harry smiled when he thought about his life partner. Seamus and Harry had begun dating at the end of their fourth year. Their plan was to have them pretend to fight so that people like Ronald Dead Man Walking Weasley wouldn't bother the couple. With everything going on with the return of Voldemort, the last thing the couple wanted was for attention on a same sex pairing during all of it to discredit Harry even more than he was already going through.
Ginny was on Harry's most disliked list along with two of her brothers. She was constantly after Harry to buy her gifts and to go on dates with her. She was constantly finding excuses to touch him and hang on him. She even went so far as to try and kiss him on more than one occasion earning her detention for inappropriate behavior. Every time he sat and tried to catch his breath, she would appear and annoy him. Seamus and Harry knew almost immediately that their love affair would go long and far as the magic between the two was something that was calling to both. It was just too bad that certain others couldn't and wouldn't accept it.
The sweet kisses Harry and Seamus shared, as well as, the holding hands and spending a lot of quiet time together went a long way to making the relationship prosper and grow. With the help of the Weasley and Patel twins, Hermione, Neville, Luna, and oddly enough, Draco and Snape, the couple was able to enjoy their moments together. More than once, someone came to the rescue of one or the other from those that would see Harry as a slave to someone else.
A loud crack sounded in his room pulling Harry out of his reminiscing. The Weasley twins were there in all of their glory, but neither looked jovial like they normally were. Both young men were frantic. Harry started growing concerned as both were more serious than he had ever seen them before. He wasn't expecting to hear the next words out of their mouths.
"Harry, we have to get you and your relatives to Hogwarts immediately," stated Fred in a voice that brooked no argument. "Professor Snape and Professor McGonagall are both downstairs working with your family. We came over when we got word from Dumbledore that you were to be brought to Hogwarts for a debriefing. He said to tell you that you will be told EVERYTHING. He feels that the time for you to be your own warrior and person has come. He wants you to work with him and others to help out with a MAJOR problem."
TITLE: Apocalypse
PERPETRATOR: StormyForeDragon
SUE-O-METER:
(toxic)
COVER/BANNER ART: It is a clip of the writer's avatar. I believe it is a picture of the writer and his cat. The cat's a gorgeous black cat.
SUMMARY:”The war between the Angels of Heaven and the Demons of Hell left devastating effects on the humans. The Greek Gods step in and choose their champions to save the world from zombies? Story is based in New Orleans Louisiana. SLASH! HP/SF-HG/DM-NL/LL. Characters are portrayed how i want them to be. Don't like, do read.”
FULL NAME: Harry and the entire Harry Potter cast/
SPECIES: They're original fiction characters the writer is trying to pass off as canon characters.
HAIR: n/a
EYES: n/a
MARKINGS: n/a
POSSESSIONS: n/a
CONNECTION TO CANON: None. This pieces is original fiction. The summary pretty much sums up what goes on. Ron and Ginny are character bashed at the beginning while Harry moons over Seamus. They decide to move him and the Dursley family to Hogwarts because of this random zombie apocalypse that the Greek Gods are going to step in and take care of.
ORIGIN: One of the writer's disclaimers says, “This story is based on the idea of the television program The Walking Dead. It was created by Frank Darabont. That doesn't mean I am going to use his characters. Time will tell, right now I'm just using the zombie aspect of it and such. The same could be said for the Resident Evil series.” Another one of the writer's disclaimers says this. “I will also be using an idea from the movie Legion. I have wanted to write something like it for some time now. Therefore this story will have multiple ideas and plot plays here.”
SPECIAL ABILITIES:
NOTES: One of the writer's disclaimers says this. “The characters will be OOC. This is fan fiction. If I wanted the characters to behave like Rowling portrayed them then I would write in her fashion. As I don't want to be sued for plagiarism, then the characters will behave as I want them to. If you want them to behave a certain way, THEN WRITE YOUR OWN STORY.”
If a writer is so scared of getting sued by the original writer that they feel they need to make the canon characters OoC then I think they should stick to writing original fiction because that's what they end up doing. (Have I featured this writer before? I think we've had a writer say something similar to this before.) This is particularly true when *gasp* the writer is known to have GIVEN permission for her characters and places to be USED in fanfiction! AKA Rowling isn't going to sue over the use of characters. Using her words... yes, but not this.
Anyways... I think the writer is trying to find an excuse for not keeping the characters in character more then anything. Making the characters OoC in your story also doesn't make your writing different either.
SAMPLE:
Harry was sitting in his room on Privet Drive. He was thinking about the last couple of days at school. Dolores Umbridge was arrested in front of the entire school for her use of dark items on the student body. The use of the Blood Quill got her ten years for each student she used it on. She received an additional fifty years for her continued torture of Harry. On top of that, her attempt to use an Unforgiveable Curse on a student got her fifty more years. Her admission of sending the Dementors got her life without a chance for parole and a possible death sentence for attempted murder.
With all of the bad, there was the good. Harry smiled when he thought about his life partner. Seamus and Harry had begun dating at the end of their fourth year. Their plan was to have them pretend to fight so that people like Ronald Dead Man Walking Weasley wouldn't bother the couple. With everything going on with the return of Voldemort, the last thing the couple wanted was for attention on a same sex pairing during all of it to discredit Harry even more than he was already going through.
Ginny was on Harry's most disliked list along with two of her brothers. She was constantly after Harry to buy her gifts and to go on dates with her. She was constantly finding excuses to touch him and hang on him. She even went so far as to try and kiss him on more than one occasion earning her detention for inappropriate behavior. Every time he sat and tried to catch his breath, she would appear and annoy him. Seamus and Harry knew almost immediately that their love affair would go long and far as the magic between the two was something that was calling to both. It was just too bad that certain others couldn't and wouldn't accept it.
The sweet kisses Harry and Seamus shared, as well as, the holding hands and spending a lot of quiet time together went a long way to making the relationship prosper and grow. With the help of the Weasley and Patel twins, Hermione, Neville, Luna, and oddly enough, Draco and Snape, the couple was able to enjoy their moments together. More than once, someone came to the rescue of one or the other from those that would see Harry as a slave to someone else.
A loud crack sounded in his room pulling Harry out of his reminiscing. The Weasley twins were there in all of their glory, but neither looked jovial like they normally were. Both young men were frantic. Harry started growing concerned as both were more serious than he had ever seen them before. He wasn't expecting to hear the next words out of their mouths.
"Harry, we have to get you and your relatives to Hogwarts immediately," stated Fred in a voice that brooked no argument. "Professor Snape and Professor McGonagall are both downstairs working with your family. We came over when we got word from Dumbledore that you were to be brought to Hogwarts for a debriefing. He said to tell you that you will be told EVERYTHING. He feels that the time for you to be your own warrior and person has come. He wants you to work with him and others to help out with a MAJOR problem."