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By consensus, this thread is reopened specifically to discuss Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It will be closed again once that discussion has run its course.
***SPOILER ALERT***
- **Spoilers for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows lie here. Read at your own risk***
Did I get you hooked on that site, Aimee, or were you hanging out there before I recommended Midnight Confessions?
ALL YOUR FAULT.
And I finally got my own password into The Bedchamber.
Some of that stuff makes me blush right to the roots of my hair.
Kathy and Theodosia - insent.
Hee!!
Oh, and did you insent to my profile addy, or to the addy I e-mailed you from before?
Cool--I'll make sure I pull that up ASAP!
Just don't be snarkily critical of The Fic where the poor author gets to see you being cruel. Honor the intent that it was posted with, i. e. most bad authors meant to write something good and fun and did so to the best of a limited ability. Much better to praise to the skies the stuff that is brilliant.
The lady, she is wise and kind. The poor darlings need somewhere to practice, and stomping on their heads doesn't serve any good purpose.
I would never ever stomp on anyone's head.
Unless they tried to take my DR from me.
Then, I'd have to cut a bitch.
So. That Deathly Hallows book. Great read!
I still think about writing an HP fanfic that goes into the European Wizarding world during the WWII/Grindelwald era. Problem is, what I've got in mind features a Polish Jewish wizard who ends up in the Warsaw ghetto and gets more into Holocaust fic, which I think might be a bit presumptuous on my part as well as with loads of potential of me completely fucking it up. Dumbledore and Grindelwald only show up at the end of the fic as I have envisioned it, so DH doesn't joss it completely.
I've been working on one set slightly after that era. (My working theory is that Eileen Prince's father was a low-level supporter of Grindelwald. I've got like a page written so far -- it's been kind of brewing in my mind for a week or so, but last night I finally sat down and started writing.)
Fascinating concept, though, Kathy!
(I'd be interested to see something in the HP Wizarding World that incorporated the Prague Golem, myself.)