So lately I've been in an HP mood; the mind that reminds of pumpkin juice and hollow stone walls of Hagrid's cottage. I'm reading my way backwards through the series, and today since I've been sick I had time to kill, so I looked up some fan art on this site.

I was expecting a lot of the same, and yet found my self pleasently surprised by what I came across; I mean, really inspired pieces of work feature characters and places I come to love so well.

And I got inspired, so I looked up fan-fiction. Now, I confess that fan-fiction and I have never had a good relationship. My biggest issue with fan fiction comes from being a writter my self, and worrying about people jacking all my hard earned ideas. And I pretty much kept to this staunch ideaology until I heard a lecture by Jem Butcher, who writes the "Dresden Files" which I love! And he looked at fan fiction as a huge compliment, which made sense to me.

My other issue with fan fiction is that on par (and no offense meant) its written by inexperienced writters and I have a really hard time reading work by writters who don't understand or don't respect the foundations that build a good story.

Now, I do understand that some people instinctually have the gifty of wordsmithing, just like some ppl can make art that just blows the mind. But there's a science to writting, and I really feel that if you're trully dedicated to the art form, you'll learn it and practice it. And this theology just doesn't seem to apply to most fan fiction.

So now I'm toying with the concept of writing some of my own, which if you knew me, would surprise you. I've written about three pages; I don't know if I like them (they feature Draco and Hermoine in muggle-land) so I may not keep them, but its a beginning. And I've done some research, about spells and language and locations. We'll see what comes of it all. If nothing else, it's got my back at my keyboard, which is never a bad thing