I think it's adorable. :-) Anyone recognise where I nabbed the witch from?
Other than that . . . may I just say I LOVE the Harry Potter fandom? Wonderful fanfiction aside, the pictures are GREAT! This following especially . . .
Why is it great, you ask? Simple: Because it's true.
There's this really great freeverse on Livejournal that's been circling for a while. It's not specifically about HP, but about fandom in general. Reading through it . . . it's really true. For a lot of people, myself included, fandom shapes you. It makes you laugh, cry, examine life in ways you wouldn't before. You're taught how to think, to write, to read. You see the happy parts and the sad, and you question everything.
I wouldn't be who I am without fanfiction. It's shaped me, broken my every worldview with a thousand questions, and helped me piece it all back together again. I got into it when I was about thirteen. I'd always felt like I didn't feel enough, and sometimes I still do. But now, even though I'm still definitely cocooned from a lot of things . . . I laugh more. I cry a bit easier. I smile. A lot.
Fandom is everything and nothing, and to me it's the world. I can be myself there and always find someone of a like mind. When the books and movies came out, even when I just went by myself to the events that were held for them, I always had a friend. Sure, I generally never saw them face to face again, but somehow, and I know it's not just a Potter thing, though it's more prevalent there, a single series can bring so many people together and I've just gotta say . . . .
I love that.
- Janie L.
(That certainly got off topic, huh?)
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