Wednesday, February 27, 2008

On fanfiction.net there are 344,628 different stories available to be read about Harry Potter. So it's pretty obvious that not every single one of these are going to be astoundingly original. I found a video on youtube that was actually quite funny. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=09Hi1VVSh9g) In it a girl talks about all the common scenarios she has read that have to do with a Draco/Hermione love affair. She said that she was able to come up with at least 26 repeated themes. Some of these include: Hermione becoming a pureblood, an emotional breakdown, a mascarade ball, detention (stuck in potions class together), hermione gets pregnant with Draco's baby, etc... At one point the video-blogger says "believe it or not people actually write this", sometimes it's hard for me to understand the motivation behind a lot of these fanfictions other than humour. I suppose though, when you are really attached to a work of art you feel the need to reproduce it in your own way. Anyway, I thought this video was funny and interesting in relation to Harry Potter fanfiction.

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