Torture is not the same as bullying or name calling.  Torture feels worse than being ostracized or picked on. Torture is not an experience easily forgotten.  Neville tells us in DH that Greg Goyle and Vincent Crabbe tortured their fellow students.  This would affect their future relationships.  I am sure of this.

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I was watching an old episode of Friends when I suddenly realized where so many Fanfiction depictions of Luna come from.  She's Phoebe on Friends. 

Why do fanfic writers insist on writing characters that act the exact opposite way as they do in the books? I just read a seventh year story in which Augusta Longbottom is resentful of Neville’s friendship with Harry because she feels it will put Neville at risk. She almost wants to keep him home from Hogwarts to protect him and lectures him on ( Read more... )

Am I the only Harry Potter  reader and fanfiction writer out there who had an awkward and embarrassing adolescence?

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I was reading some Harry Potter Fan fiction and I was struck again by how many writers have the students return to Hogwarts to retake their seventh year.  This has always amazed me, because I could not believe that anyone who'd fought in a battle, and carried the bodies of their dead friends to safety would want to climb back into the womb to go to ( Read more... )

I'm posting my answers to  the following questions given to me by Laliandra.
1. Well if you feel you haven't already said this I'd love to know what you would change about Harry Potter?
2. What was the first piece of fanfiction you wrote?
3. Do you do any other sorts of writing.
4. And, because I thought this was a lovely question that really got me ( Read more... )