Wendy Noire

@lasp15 I do believe fanfic should be protected by copyright, if it's not we lose a valuable form of expression. Not to mention how much is actually fanfiction throughout classics and modern stories that are not published as such.
            
            There is very little I put below Rowling at this point, but I don't think she would win if she tried. She would be effectively killing her own fandom, which while she may be financially alright by doing so, would be incredibly stupid.
            
            Media literacy? But that's more of a general issue. If anything is framed as good many readers will accept that without question regardless of the evidence to the contrary (again, with Harry Potter, I point to Snape, where we have reliable sources pointing out how awful he is "but he loved Lily" so that makes everything he did okay)

@lasp15 I do think that magic in general tends to speak to queer audiences, especially set in worlds where there's a divide between magic and no magic as it can speak to the experience a lot of queer people face. If Rowling likes it or not, she has written queer characters and allegories into her books.
            
            The positives of HP fanfic is that it allows new life to be breathed into a series that still has an effect on a lot of fantasy and while not a literary masterpiece, was a good read. Fanfic in general is a good way to practice writing as much of the development is there, making it easier to approach.
            
            The negatives of HP fanfiction is true for other fandoms as well, but you are providing free art and content and more often than not you only get specifically mentioned if it's a complaint, and it's often frowned on. And, as always, there's the stage where you watch your fic hoping for it to become popular, statistically improbable as that may be. There's also the continued issue of romanticising toxicity which I cannot believe is healthy.

@lasp15 sorry I took so long to respond, but sure!
            
            Fanfiction is any kind of story written by fans that uses the names or locations of the original thing they're fans of using pieces of the original story and lore as building blocks. These can be adapted into their own original stories by changing names and developing more additional lore.
            
            Harry Potter fanfiction is any fanfiction using the original work of Harry Potter, this includes crossovers too, obviously 
            
            I'm not sure how to describe the fan culture/fandom of HP fanfic, there's an unfortunately large amount of toxicity and romanticisation of actions and characters that are abhorrent (see Snape for example; a stalker and abuser who created a spell for deadly torture, but the fandom so often sees him as an uwu innocent soft boy because he had an obsession with Lily) and constant flip flopping on important issues like misogyny and biggotry. It is probably a lie to say it's worse than other fandoms though.
            
            The people who write HP fanfiction are the people who want to.
            
            I feel like the HP fandom is old enough you can find bias in almost every direction (though I find there aren't nearly enough who try to portray Snape anywhere near accurate, as well as other completely loyal Death Eaters) and the bias comes more from readers only reading specific parts.
            
            The people who read HP fanfiction are the people who want to, often fans of the films/books who want more content or are disappointed with the original/Rowling.
            
            Honestly I don't have many especially notable HP fanfics. I tend to read a lot and enjoy most that are well written, but I've never been super deep in the community aspect of the fandom for many reasons, and now I'm more interested in other series.

@small-bi-might17 I am mainly on AO3, after Wattpad unilaterally deleted one of my stories I don't think I have a single fic unique to Wattpad 

@ WendyNoire  ok!!

@WendyNoire same here 

@wwwjuw No worries. Hopefully they will stay on Wattpad, but they have deleted one recently. You don't need an account to read on AO3, so if one you liked is no longer on AO3, you can still check it out.

@WendyNoire I can’t even complain about that I just don’t check my messages

@WendyNoire I've had the same problem and still do and reported it

@WendyNoire your welcome

@Monntiger cool 

@WendyNoire am now following you there

Thank you! I have taken ur input and I’m super happy with it!

@TOH_TheCollecter do you want to? If so go for it. I got an undercut recently