The Hog's Head

Hi all.

I'm delighted to see the Tower is getting rebuilt  brick by brick, stone by stone. The original Gryffindor Tower was the first site where I ever attempted to post fanfic (Under the name "struwwelfranz." They weren't much. Just a couple short additions to Ashwinder's story Ginny's Gift, which it didn't need.) That seems like ages ago, although it's only been five years.

I've since written a novel-length story of my own, which went up on Sugar Quill and Sink Into Your Eyes in installments. "Harry Potter and the Staff of Serpents." Harry's Sixth year, so of course it's AU; in fact I didn't finish it until a few months after the release of Dealthy Hallows.

  Now that the canonical books are all out, I've been wondering whether HP fanfic will retain much interest either for readers or writers. It seems to me that most of the best fics were written after GoF (and a few after OotP), and that more people were reading them back then. Could it be fandom had enough knowledge from books 1-4 to imagine what should happen next, and enough empty space before JK Rowling wrote books 5, 6, and 7 to fill it?

Well, we shall see I suppose.

*waves hello*
Well, speaking as a writer myself I found DH to be a pretty great source of inspiration, especially for missing moment, outside-Harry's-POV type stories.  And I especially loved how the epilogue left a fairly large number of things ambiguous because that gives writers plenty of room in which to work with post-Hogwarts storylines.

Check out this thread for some post-DH fic recommendations:
http://gtreloaded.net/forums/index.php/topic,93.0.html

Hey! I remember you! Nice to see you!

I started a couple of things post-DH, but I can say that I'm pretty sure I'm not going to finish either one. Original writing sucked me in pretty fast once I got started again.