You may laugh at fan fiction, but original written work has helped sustain voracious fan communities for decades. When Harry Potter fans had to wait years between novels, writing our theories into online content was a welcome form of catharsis.
I first logged on to fanfiction.net in 2004, fresh from the theatrical release of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and still at least a year out from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in print form (for all we knew at the time, it would be longer). I was starved for new Potter content, and ff.net boasted over 150,000 original Harry Potter stories by fans (and yup, dozens if not hundreds are still updated daily). At the time, J.K. Rowling was still pretty reclusive, and the books she had written for us formed the basic structures of a playground that extended as far as the imagination. Read more...
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