Suegenesis

[farla]

Today I discovered one of the children in the class (about eleven) has a Harry Potter sue. I don’t believe a written version exists yet, thankfully.

Basically, Harry’s parents weren’t killed when he was an infant. They were killed when his little sister was an infant. He was six at the time.

Somehow, no one knew about the girl, and Harry somehow forgot about it, so she was sent to a muggle orphanage. She has a scar just like Harry’s. When they meet, they know immediately that they’re related and Harry loves her.

I’m torn between telling her about Harry Potter fanfiction, in the hopes she’ll run across Harry/Dumbledore bondage or something else that’ll make her little head explode, and not telling her in the hopes that her story will stay away from the internet.

Comments

[farla.livejournal.com]

...if you believe there's actual goodfic in the section. I mean, I've heard it exists, but it's kinda like Bigfoot - lots of people claim to have seen it, but they either can't prove it or it's fake or it's utterly non-canon stuff that's basically an original. I check out the front page there every once in a blue moon and run screaming.

Personally I feel the section's a lost cause, but she might not stop at just posting her story. (And then what would become of the internet as we know it?!)

[katei3.livejournal.com]

haha! True. Now that I think about it, the only really good Harry Potter fanfiction I've read was by Cassandra Claire (the draco series, not the smut). Most of the rest of it is...ergh....

But then again, without bad fanfiction, what would make *good* fanfiction special? I guess the horrible crap people spout out at least makes the occasional well-written fic stand out. ^_^ But that's an awfully sad silver lining.

[farla.livejournal.com]

Actually, all the bad fanfiction seems to do is lead to reviewers fawning over anyone who manages to spell properly or who isn't writing the same plot as half the authors, even if it isn't all that good. Which in turn makes the few potentially authors grow complacent, egotistical, and bad.

But I suppose the ego boosting of reading it and thinking 'Thank god I'm not this person' can't be discounted.