*★* WATTPAD FRIENDS AND FAMILY, WATTPAD FEATURED STORY & 2017 WATTYS WINNER!! *★* Preceded by rumors of their prophetic birth, pure-blood twins, Fred and George Weasley, follow in the footsteps of their three older brothers by attending a school for...
Jude Law will be playing a young Albus Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them...Again (or maybe they'll put a 2 on the end of it?) I dunno. Fantastic Beasts and Why You Might Want to Find Them Faster?? Anyway... JUDE LAW!
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He's such a wonderful actor. And what a great casting decision!? Much better than Captain Jack Sparrow as Grindelwald...I mean Johnny Depp, or rather He Who Should Not Have Been Cast. But that's my opinion. Some of you might have liked him in that role. And my opinion doesn't matter, right? I just never, ever, imagined Johnny Depp as Grindelwald...not in a billion years...but should any of this actually matter? Well, yes and no. It all depends on how you view canon, and if you adhere to the limits that have been traditionally placed on the voice of the author.
Fifteen years ago, I started work on FRED AND GEORGE AND THE TOILERS OF TROUBLE. It had a different title at the time. Actually, there was quite a lot different about that draft, to the point that it's remarkably dissimilar to the version you're all reading. The main reason for the same book being so different is because the source material inspiring my series had yet to be finished. Yes, as crazy as that sounds, I retold the story of Fred and George (including their last year at Hogwarts) before I had ever read book five...or six...OR SEVEN
(AND WE ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPENED IN SEVEN!!!)
(Breathe, Mike...)
This became a source of frustration on multiple levels for me, because my series was completed before I ever learned about the Elder Wand or the other Deathly Hallows, or the Order of the Phoenix, or Dumbledore's Army...the list goes on. I had thought at the time, "How much can really happen to Fred and George in their last year at school?"
Er...Um...UMBRIDGE?
Needless to say, the entire series went through subsequent rewrites whenever a new book was released. Sometimes, elements of my story were nullified because of something she had written. Other times, elements of my series lined up so magically that I dropped the book in shock while reading, and quickly developed a conspiracy over a cold meatloaf dinner that JKR had somehow hacked my computer and read my books and stole my ideas AND...! Oh, young, non-Australian pop-rock band Michael Clifford...you were so adorable. The most obvious reason for the rewrites was because I wanted to incorporate some of Rowling's new ideas into my fanfiction.
Here's something I had written in an earlier author's note:
"From time to time, I may use a detail from the movies or from Pottermore in order to fill in a blank or two, but the architecture of my books is primarily OS-Canon (original source - only the books!), rather than JKR-Canon (anything J.K. Rowling could add in tweets, interviews, and on Pottermore), or WW-Canon (The wizarding world continuity canon, consisting of anything under the umbrella of Harry Potter related materials, games, apps, stage plays, and movies)."
