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Snape Manor
Jun. 23rd, 2003 12:46 pmWell, now that many of you have read OotP, I'm going to post vague references to it in my LJ. Any specifics will still go under cut tags.
I expected 'Primer to the Dark Arts' to be hit out of the ballpark into AU territory. That situation is better than I expected, although the main issue is the characterisation of Harry is definitely based on GoF (though it takes off in its own direction).
I didn't expect JKR to write many of my ideas for 'Snape Manor'. My jaw dropped as I read them. The general idea was in OotP, even some specifics were very similar. I can't tell you what that's like, to find your ideas in print before you've written them, to know now that you're going to come off as a rip-off when the intent was to write something fairly original. Sigh. Well, it's fanfiction anyway. I wish I hadn't waited to post.
My first reaction was 'I'm not going to write Snape Manor now. It's already been done.' Now that I've calmed down, I think that the focus of 'Snape Manor' is simply going to change. Thank you to those of you who have urged me not to drop 'Snape Manor', your comments were a ray of light in a bleak moment.
I expected 'Primer to the Dark Arts' to be hit out of the ballpark into AU territory. That situation is better than I expected, although the main issue is the characterisation of Harry is definitely based on GoF (though it takes off in its own direction).
I didn't expect JKR to write many of my ideas for 'Snape Manor'. My jaw dropped as I read them. The general idea was in OotP, even some specifics were very similar. I can't tell you what that's like, to find your ideas in print before you've written them, to know now that you're going to come off as a rip-off when the intent was to write something fairly original. Sigh. Well, it's fanfiction anyway. I wish I hadn't waited to post.
My first reaction was 'I'm not going to write Snape Manor now. It's already been done.' Now that I've calmed down, I think that the focus of 'Snape Manor' is simply going to change. Thank you to those of you who have urged me not to drop 'Snape Manor', your comments were a ray of light in a bleak moment.
