The Irony Knows No Bounds.

[icarus]

The Irony Knows No Bounds

You know, reading trinityofone's recent post, I'd like to say in a note of complete and utter irony, I have only one quote that I've borrowed:

In the Harry Potter AU, Beg Me For It, I refer to "Lucius and the Death Eaters" sounding like a rock band.

Where did it originate?

Cassandra Claire.

I thought that I'd read the Draco Trilogy after I wrote Beg Me For It. I wasn't a Harry/Draco or a Gen fan, preferring Harry/Ron and Harry/Snape. If it was Gen, I wasn't interested if it didn't have Snape. I know I finally read the DT somewhere in Jan-Mar of 2003 (after people complained about it... and I saw the quote "I dreamed I was a slice of lemon is a giant martini" on Fiction Alley and couldn't resist). I wrote Beg Me For It in Feb 2003.

Three years later I'm a wee bit fuzzy. *head scratching* Maybe the quote just stuck in my mind? Readers have pointed it out to me and while I've stuck with my original belief, I'm actually not quite sure any more.

At any rate, if there's anyone who won't complain, it's Cassandra Claire. *g*

Comments

[cheshyre]

Personally...

If it's an HP fic, I'm not going to be upset to see uncredited HP lines in there. Likewise for any other fic wrt lines from that source. If it's a fic of X universe or even X&Y, then finding stuff from X&Y is to be expected.
Part of the CC problem is it's a HP fic with stuff from elsewhere that folks may not have been expecting (I've found quote sites on the web that attribute various lines from Buffy and elsewhere to CC).

And, I think, the other reason this is wank instead of old news is the way CC handled it.
If someone points something out and you slap your forehead, say D'oh!, post something like Icarus did above, I don't think anybody's going to hold it against you.
But bad_penny recounts shifting, contradictory, and sometimes untrue excuses (such as the nonexistent "single volume omnibus" edition of Pamela Dean)... what seems more like CYA than any genuine sentiment.
And that kind of behavior gets people's dander up.

All IMO, of course.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

To be perfectly honest: one, I really think I wrote that line before I read the DT, and two, it's not verbatum quote but merely the "idea" of referring to 'Lucius and the Death Eaters' sounding like a rock band.

There's a note of mockery to my admission here. I don't think allusions are a problem.

"To attack, or not to attack, that is the question. Whether tis nobler to be pounded by the opposition's artillery while maintaining position...."[1]

Icarus


[1] Credit goes to Shakespeare's Hamlet in reference to "To be or not to be."

[cheshyre]

Oh, I grok that about your post.

My point was that the severity of reaction is based in part to how one handles it, and CC never really gave an unequivocal mea culpa which might've put the issue to rest.