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hi all,
i am a harry potter fan almost 2 years.
i'll be glad to hear your stories, how did you become a harry potter fan, so that i can know more hp fans just like me.
so here is my story.. i was sitting on the computer and searching for some videos not related to harry potter, but then in the results of the youtube i saw something of harry potter.. i watched it, and it was so facinating.. i couldn't stop watching it.
so i decided that i am going to invite the first book of harry potter. i called the centeral library for blind people in my country, and invited the book. it came on a cd and i remember the date, it was the first of july. since that time it is even a kind of important day to me, because i celebrate the day of me becoming a harry potter fan.
so i was coming back from my summer camp very tired, i threw myself on the bed, and started listening.. i was listening, listening, listening, i couldn't stop.
since that time i am a harry potter fan.. i finished to read all the books in 8 months, yes, i am not joking, 8 months only.
now, tell me how did you become harry potter fans.
In my case, I watched the first film and didn't really understand what was going on.
A couple of days later, my local radio reading service was reading it.
I didn't want to tune in every evening just to hear a bit more of the book, so I bought them on cassette, yes, they did still have cassettes back then lol, and the series was only up to book 4.
Now that the books are over, I read some of the many Harry Potter fanfiction stories out there.
Some try to continue the series, while others are what if scenarios.
Not many people are into fanfics, but to each their own.
I treat them as an alternate universe.
oh very nice. and nice to meet you, harry potter is a really good thing.
The year the first book came out, which was 1998 I believe, my mom was working at a nursing home at the time. One of the residents gave her the tape of the first book, saying someone had bought it for her, but that she thought that someone else would get more out of it. My mom gave it to me. At first I didn't think I'd like it, but the story completely sucked me in. I actually remember, also, getting the second book on a floppy disk as a Christmas present from NBP the year that came out. Outdated technology and Harry Potter? Yep, good times.
Also, I enjoy a good fanfiction too. The only bad part about them is that you have to sift through a whole load of crap to find ones that are any good. And a story that otherwise would have been good can be completely ruined by bad grammar or spelling. I cannot take a story seriously that has those qualities.
Anyway, that's how I got into HP, and I still enjoy discussing it to this day.
I first saw the Philosopher's stone in film format when it came out. My little brother dragged me to it. I wasn't expecting much, because I thought it was a series for kids (I was 18). Found out was actually pretty decent. Then my girlfriend at the time and I read the second and third a few months later. Since I'd seen the first movie I thought I'd give it a chance. Plus ... well, you know, girls... Anyway I enjoyed them and have read the core series ever since. I actually didn't read the first novel until 2009 when my wife and I read the whole series. I enjoy the series and appreciate Rawling's creativity and talent.
When I was just about to start second grade, my grandma mailed my brother the Sorcerer's Stone for his 8th birthday. We started a nightly tradition of my dad reading us a chapter. We carried this tradition, sometimes reading more chapters during weekend days in the backyard because we just had to know what was next in the story. By the time we got to Goblet of Fire, only being 9, I got really freakd out with the graveyard scene and begged my dad to stop reading (I think my brother wanted to murder me that night.) Since then, we took them up on our own. We didn't really unite over them again until Deathly Hallows came out, and my brother and I, now being 14 and 15, stayed up all night after the midnight it was released listening to the audiobook. Such memories. We had the CD's and casettes for awhile, and sometimes would flip it on during long car trips. It was definitely something my brother and I shared with my dad, but if he was away for business, we would persuade Mom to read some too. When he was old enough, I tried to get my younger brother into it, but he sadly wasn't for it.
I still love talking HP, and I listen to the audiobooks at night to fall asleep. Half-Blood Prince is going now. It's a minor obsession.
Oh, and as far as the movies, Dad took my brother and I out of school when Sorcerer's Stone came out so we could go see it in theaters the first day. Those were the days, man. As I got older, we went to a few of the midnight premiers. Obviously the movies are not nearly as remarkable as the books, but it was fun having something HP to look forward to, even so.
You guys hear that the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them movies are in the making? Supposed to be a trilogy. Not sure how I feel about it, but I'm obviously going to be there first day to see them.
oh wow, interesting stories!! you can chat me and we can talk about hp as much as you want.
I was a highly energetic child. that child who became bored all the damn time, yes, that was me. I enjoyed writing stories, but there were no additional braille paper. I had used all of it. Go outside? no, did that already. go bother my neighbors? I probably completed that round of missions as well. Thus, I was at home restless as ever. My neighbor had given me the Harry Potter book on cassette tapes. It had already sat there for a long period of time. I enjoyed writing but barely read. My mother forced me to sit quietly and listen to the book in my room. after Every chapter before chapter 6, I would declare that I was bored and desired not to read the book. After chapter 6 I fell in love with the first book, and the rest was history.
I officially began to write fanfiction at the age of 13. This was when I discovered fanfiction.net, and what fanfictions were. I wrote them previously, however, I never knew they were termed fanfictions. I do not usually enjoy reading fanfictions, but writing it is enjoyable. I am working on a fanfiction titled The Concept Of Family, where Remus raises Harry. I am moongazer 7, presently. It was my first ever online penname, but I previously changed it often. My favorite character is Remus Lupin. I only enjoy reading strictly cannon fanfiction, and all the characters in my fanfiction are in character following the book portrail of these characters.
I agree with you about cannon fanfictions.
What really bothers me are the fanfics that have to incorporate new characters that didn't exist in the original series. I lose interest pretty quickly if I don't recognize half the characters in the story, or even if one character sticks out like a sore thumb in the midst of familiar faces, so to speak.
Oh, and don't get me started on crossovers.
I dislike crossovers and avoid them. For me, OCS are perfectly fine, if they are artfully inserted and not the main character. Characters must, however, be strictly in character. Some people attempt to make Dumbledore extremely manipulative and evil or use dialogue styles for certain characters, which skews there personality to being rather more relaxed then they are, for instance. Some other characters tend to be adventurous, however, they are not foolishly and overly dangerous, which is what they turn out to be in the fanfiction.
Here's something else I can't stand: fanfictions that overdramatize sexual relationships between completely incompatible characters.
For some reason, I've been encountering a bunch of Hermione and Snape pairings lately. And, while I won't deny that they're decent stories, I just can't take that pairing seriously.
Same with the utterly ridiculous Harry and Malfoy ones that were so prevalent a few years back.
Oh Oh I love Hermione/Snape and Harry/Snape mentoring and/or adopting fics. :)
Will one of you fine people please explain that concept of cannon fan fiction? it seems like an oxymoron. I do think you need to pay tribute to the source material. Keep characters in line with their established personalities and all that. I suspect that's part of what you mean. I don't write fan fiction, but I've always had the vague niggling to write a noire themed novel about a wizard private investigator set in the HP universe. There's a lot of very interesting lore to draw from which would fit perfectly into that style of writing.
Cannon fanfiction usually refers to fanfictions that take place within the series' already established timeline. For example, if the fanfic is set in the future, it probably wouldn't be considered cannon, because those events, or variations thereof, didn't happen in the original series.
And yes, keeping characters reasonably close to how they're portrayed in the books counts, too. Exploring their personalities with a depth that wasn't originally explored is generally seen as a good thing, though.
I do not mind fanon if it was rather loyal to the books. I am writing AU, however, I am attempting to write it as Rowling would have done so. perfectly in character, and the magical world is precisely similar. Characters must act and speak as they do precisely as they speak and act in the books. Those are my requirements. The AU or futuristic situation must be completely possible to cannon or quite in character providing the characters personality.
Yes, I do not prefer hgss, dmhg,hpdm, or hpss,
for most of those parings, I think in character characters would have murdered each other before they began to be intimate. They would grade on the nerves of each other quite finely. Due to personality and tendencies, I somehow can not see Hermione Harry. I think one would serve to grade on the others nerves eventually as well. Perhaps not as obviously as a GHSS HpSS Dmhg hpdm piaring would, however, eventually the logical would serve to frustrate the adventurous and vise versa.
I tend to appreciate Luna Neville, McGonagalll Dumbledore,
Yeah, I agree, Luna and Neville would make a decent couple. Their personalities are well suited for each other.
indeed.
I absolutely detest the ones that make Dumbledore out to be this manipulative, evil bastard.