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[carentan]

I just wanted to say that I LOVE the comm header.  Nice job!

Does anyone have any comm icons in that style?

BTW that's the first time I've ever seen the carpet book, lol.

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Hurrah for the Magic Carpet!! (part 2)

[anonymous]

OK,third or fourth time I have had to type the below,first running into the length limit and then the "prove you are a human" graphic-or-audio tests that can not be dealt with by my text-only browser.
AS...I...WAS...SAYING...
Certainly reading DH stimulates many reactions,favorable and not.Potterverse what-ifs are kindled,including by the Epilogue,and I do expect I'd get the Encyclopedia though I've never obtained the little charity books.
Now,I tend to abhor the very idea of fanfic (and most especially despise slash).Think of the person whose creations you toy with...if you respect another's work,leave it alone in their hands;if you don't,don't twist it or waste time on it.If you get an idea for a story set in someone else's "sandbox",the only ethical avenues to do something with it IMO are 1)give it to the writer unconditionally,telling them to let it fly or die as they will,or 2)ask them for permission to write it and let them edit it or have it edited,on whatever financial terms they wish.I have tried both and had satisfaction with neither nor did my suggestions please the writers.If one has one's own talent,it is best to use it on one's original creations that are merely informed by and not derivative of anything one has read.(Being older than Rowling I am quite disinclined to serve as her acolyte).
I believe I can write a better (at least to my own tastes) boy-in-contemporary-Britain-unexpectedly-offered-a-place-at-a-school-that-teaches-magic story than Rowling,and I'm not even British...but I'm under no delusion that I could write a more commercially successful one.
In light of the above,the only Potterverse scribblings I've done (on a.f.h-p) have been minimal and hypothetical...the longest a brief conversation so ferociously AU (departure point 1927) the two men speaking to each other were not nearly alive at the same time in canon.
Be that as it may,my transient desires for plothole-patching and random plotbunny notions have given me ideas for a post-Epilogue Potterfic I will never write,featuring a relationship likelier to appall people than slash,and even a couple of Snape-related side stories.If someone curious posts an email address in response,I may send a not-really-outline privately.But that is where it will lie.
So,goodbye,Harry Potter saga.Thank you,carpet leaker,for puncturing the hype.May all who've formed a community through reading HP be better for it...and where capable,better than it.