Imagine thinking you’re a better writer and better at world building than JKR, it’s laughable, honestly.
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Replying to @archhufflepuff
The majority of teenagers writing Harry Potter fanfiction in the hiatus after Goblet of Fire were better writers and ESPECIALLY better worldbuilders than JKR
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Replying to @arthur_affect @archhufflepuff
Which is why it was so damn common in Potter fandom for people to pick up on some bit of fan-invented lore as actually being canon -- because it made so much more sense -- and then be disappointed it wasn't actually
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Replying to @arthur_affect
An example? There’s no fan-invented lore? Because people in the fandom up until recently has the respect not to think they’re better than the writer. If they’re such good writers then, why are they piggybacking off of JK’s incredible world building?
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Replying to @archhufflepuff @arthur_affect
Oh honey, no. Several of Shakespeare's plays were basically fanfic. Doesn't make them less good. And then several 19th century composers wrote operas that were overtly fanfic of Shakespeare.
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Replying to @littleamers @arthur_affect
Yes but saying that those composers were better at creating that story than Shakespeare is mad - he made the story. That’s what I was getting at with the “fanfic shows better world building than the original”
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Replying to @archhufflepuff @littleamers
No it isn't, he made A story and they made a different, possibly better one after reading his
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Replying to @arthur_affect @littleamers
Yes but the composers aren’t credited with making the story. What they did was essentially an adaptation and while they may be better, they’re not responsible for building that world or making the original story.
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Replying to @archhufflepuff @littleamers
You act like this is a hard line and it really isn't Like you were just told Shakespeare didn't really invent stories either, as opposed to adapting them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @littleamers
I simply dispute your claim that fanfic writers can be better world builders than the original author. Yes, their stories, plots, characters may be fantastic and surpass the original, but the actual building of the world can’t be better than the original, as they didn’t create it
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Lol the "world" isn't a real existing thing, especially in the case of a famously vague series like Harry Potter Fanfic is defined by using the *names* of stuff in the original book, not by objectively taking place "in the same world" (often in fact it clearly doesn't)
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