Chapter 29: Transfiguration

[psychic_serpent]

Hello! It's been a little while, but the recent spate of JKR-related stuff in the news (and the reporting on the Quidditch World Cup!) has brought me back to my fandom journal and induced me to continue a project that has now been on hold for three years! I can't believe I let it go that long. But I am now going to finish the annotated posts for

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[author_by_night]

I might try ff.n again too. Like you, I had issues with it at the time (not sure if they're the same or not - I just didn't like how trollish it got), but LJ's kind of a dead zone for fic, so I may post the stuff I've written there. JKR's new work has totally got me writing fic again, and while I haven't continued any of them the way you are, I've included bits and pieces of my old stuff.

Now... annotations of your annotations. :P

Before book five, we had no idea with the Order of the Phoenix would turn out to be. Can I just say that I like her version a thousand times better than mine?

I love that there were entire debates about whether or not the Order was a resistance group, an award, something to do with Fawkes... I feel like I wavered back and forth.

I love the fact that JKR actually USED the ghoul in the seventh book (the spattergroit plot).

Me too! I don't think I saw that coming. Or spattergroit. We really should've known.

19. The chapter ends, of course, with Ron calling Parvati by Hermione's name when they are sharing an intimate moment, lest anyone get the impression that Ron is completely over Hermione. Perhaps JKR should have had Ron do that in HBP to alienate Lavender!

Hilariously, that's exactly what happened in the movie. I kind of like that.

I read your fics a very long time ago, so I could be wrong, but it seems to me you had a variety of ships - and given the state of fandom, I like that. Everyone was so hung up on who should or shouldn't be together, and it was cool that you seemed to be on "anything goes" side of things.

[psychic_serpent]

I just feel like more people are hanging out on ff.net these days, even reading super-ancient fics like mine. Just a moment ago, I got another three notices that three different readers had favorited me, favorited the first Psychic Serpent fic, and one is following me. Yesterday there were three similar notices plus a review of the Afterword for PS, which followed on the same person leaving me a couple of reviews for earlier chapters just before that, plus more favoriting/following notices. And all of that is just a few days' traffic for a 13-year-old fic. (My fic is now old enough to get an account on ff.net, by COPPA rules!)

I was a lot less rigid about ships than many people, and had friends on both sides of the ship wars. I was also pretty tolerant of ship debates on my Yahoo group (within reason--I drew the line at name-calling), where it really raged on for a while. And I posted my own essays about various ships in canon, but I always also drew a line differentiating between fanon and canon, and was perfectly able to enjoy a well-written fic with a ship I didn't sail on.

Isn't it nice how JKR still inspires creativity in so many people? Long live fic!