Harry Potter and the Gift of the Magi. There's a note on it warning for spoilers for your series, so I would assume the author is aware of it. A quick glance at things doesn't uncover any notes or acknowledgements of specific borrowings, but I see at the top of chapter 4 that one of the Weasley sisters is named Peggy and she's an astrologer. Ah, and so is the other sister, Annie. I'm just looking at this very fast, but it seems like the author took the characters and their back story but he's rewritten things somewhat. It looks like Harry was trying to find the missing sisters and they just conveniently happened to be in Little Whingeing.
The story on ff.n has different chapter titles, but it seems to be a c&p.
That sounds fine as far as "Gift of the Magi" is concerned. They made note of the borrowing of ideas, which is what I usually tell folks to do, no prob. Sounds like the problem is with the ff.net person plagiarizing this person's fic, though, and that's why some people noticed that there are elements of my work (the sisters) in it, since the ff.net person did NOT duplicate the spoiler note.
Seems like a thwapping is in order, IMNSHO, for the ff.net person.
If I were you, I wold get in contact with the site admin and tell him what's going on and make sure you provide links to the stories in question. I found 2 stories on SIYE that I felt were plagiarised...
and then there's the whole thing where some chick said she plagiarized me because she had an aneurysm...
Hahahaha! That's too much. And you have an icon for it! That's beauty. :D
Yeah, I'm going to tell the fanfic.net admins about this and give the link that tartanboxers provided above for the fic that was stolen. I have no problem with that person using the Weasley sisters I created, especially since they included a note about it; I do have a problem with someone else just copying and pasting HPATGOTM fic and claiming authorship. They didn't even change the title very much! "Harry Potter and the Magi"? Please.
A couple weeks ago I was browsing a HP rec community and came across a rec for a fic that I swear I read before, judging from the summary and other rec notes...with the exception that the pairing was changed around. Of course I cannot for the life of me find the original fanfic grrr.
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The story on ff.n has different chapter titles, but it seems to be a c&p.
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Seems like a thwapping is in order, IMNSHO, for the ff.net person.
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If I were you, I wold get in contact with the site admin and tell him what's going on and make sure you provide links to the stories in question. I found 2 stories on SIYE that I felt were plagiarised...
and then there's the whole thing where some chick said she plagiarized me because she had an aneurysm...
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Yeah, I'm going to tell the fanfic.net admins about this and give the link that tartanboxers provided above for the fic that was stolen. I have no problem with that person using the Weasley sisters I created, especially since they included a note about it; I do have a problem with someone else just copying and pasting HPATGOTM fic and claiming authorship. They didn't even change the title very much! "Harry Potter and the Magi"? Please.
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people who pick off other peoples work are just plain ol' stupid
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