"(this is why I frequently forget to have any description at all in my fanfiction, whoops)"
This is why I love your fanfiction! (Okay, not the only reason, I don't think the key to writing success is "never describe anything ever", I love loads of other bits, but my visual imagination is practically non-existent so it's just padding to me. And it drives me crazy when fanfic spends five paragraphs describing Hermione's completely OOC Hot Topic clothing.)
"I loved the addition of Sirius calling Harry 'James' towards the end of Order of the Phoenix film, even if my feelings about the films can sometimes be a bit conflicted"
I don't tend to like the changes to the film adaptions, particularly the later books which are so long they have lots they need to cut out which is reasonable enough. I just never agree with what they cut out. (You cut SPEW from the Goblet of Fire but include the Yule Ball? Hermione's house elf believes are relevant later. The Yule Ball is never relevant again. Even the Madame Maxime stuff (which if I recall happens during the Yule Ball) could be transplanted elsewhere.) I don't mind the sound of that change because it gets across the "Sirius may think Harry is James" even though the other scenes weren't transferred over, at least it included the plot point, y'know?
Order of the Phoenix, incidentally, is my favourite Harry Potter book (unpopular opinion ahoy!) by quite a margin. I know Harry angsts, but he does act like a believable teenager. (I get a bit annoyed when people who write fanfic complain about Harry being too whiny in the books, so compensate by writing a completely suave, cool, uber powerful, uber intelligent and ultimately very OOC Harry. I like Harry as a character, and a lot of that's because he's not those things.
I'm very tempted to write a short about Mrs Weasley and Sirius now. It's been many years since I read the books and so it's sure to be factually incorrect. Why am I considering this? (I normally tend to write lots of stories about main characters in my fandoms, but two fandoms this doesn't apply: Heavy Rain, where I've wrote from the point of view of pretty much every character under the sun, and Harry Potter. I mostly seem to write about minor characters in the Harry Potter universe. I wonder why? Don't think I've ever tackled Mrs Weasley, though. Can't think why - I love Mrs Weasley!
Hmm, looking back I've explored Pettigrew, Sirius, Regulus, Snape, Petunia and Filch. ...Why do I only ever write the troubled characters?! Maybe I need to rebalance this.
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This is why I love your fanfiction! (Okay, not the only reason, I don't think the key to writing success is "never describe anything ever", I love loads of other bits, but my visual imagination is practically non-existent so it's just padding to me. And it drives me crazy when fanfic spends five paragraphs describing Hermione's completely OOC Hot Topic clothing.)
"I loved the addition of Sirius calling Harry 'James' towards the end of Order of the Phoenix film, even if my feelings about the films can sometimes be a bit conflicted"
I don't tend to like the changes to the film adaptions, particularly the later books which are so long they have lots they need to cut out which is reasonable enough. I just never agree with what they cut out. (You cut SPEW from the Goblet of Fire but include the Yule Ball? Hermione's house elf believes are relevant later. The Yule Ball is never relevant again. Even the Madame Maxime stuff (which if I recall happens during the Yule Ball) could be transplanted elsewhere.) I don't mind the sound of that change because it gets across the "Sirius may think Harry is James" even though the other scenes weren't transferred over, at least it included the plot point, y'know?
Order of the Phoenix, incidentally, is my favourite Harry Potter book (unpopular opinion ahoy!) by quite a margin. I know Harry angsts, but he does act like a believable teenager. (I get a bit annoyed when people who write fanfic complain about Harry being too whiny in the books, so compensate by writing a completely suave, cool, uber powerful, uber intelligent and ultimately very OOC Harry. I like Harry as a character, and a lot of that's because he's not those things.
I'm very tempted to write a short about Mrs Weasley and Sirius now. It's been many years since I read the books and so it's sure to be factually incorrect. Why am I considering this? (I normally tend to write lots of stories about main characters in my fandoms, but two fandoms this doesn't apply: Heavy Rain, where I've wrote from the point of view of pretty much every character under the sun, and Harry Potter. I mostly seem to write about minor characters in the Harry Potter universe. I wonder why? Don't think I've ever tackled Mrs Weasley, though. Can't think why - I love Mrs Weasley!
Hmm, looking back I've explored Pettigrew, Sirius, Regulus, Snape, Petunia and Filch. ...Why do I only ever write the troubled characters?! Maybe I need to rebalance this.
-timydamonkey