I think that there will be lot less of it.

What are your thoughts?

 

More timetravel and AU's of course

 

Se7en, that's a given. Considering that each book kicked fanfiction in the nuts, why should this be any different?

 

And sexy house elves. Can't forget the elves.

 

Im convinced that Winky is going to play a major role in Voldies demise. And it will porbably involve lots of leather!

But there will be less fanfiction, of the 'fangirl attempts to write novel length romance h/g', some will still write post hogwarts, but not as many as before.

There will be more AU and Time Travel, but also a lot more post hogwarts fics.

 

I think the effect the book will have on fanfiction depends on which characters, if any, get killed. If Harry gets killed in the end, there'll be tons of fics where someone(Most likely Ginny due to the amount of misguided people who seem to like her) goes back in time to save him. The same applies for Harry going back in time to save someone else who may end up dead.

I can just picture the amount of one-shots getting written where Harry wakes up in the end and realizes everything was just a dream though. It's not going to pretty.

 

I agree with Mordecai.
If she wraps it up nicely, there will likely be a sudden drop in fanfiction, if not, there will likely be a spike as people try to change it to fit their needs, but then people will realize that the story is over, thus readers wil drop it, and writers, having a lower audience, will stop writing.

 

The last chapter is supposed to be what happens to everybody and I'm going to take a "wild" guess that it's going to say Harry married Ginny and had umpteen kids. I think there will be even more H/G super soul bond married at 13 stories, if that's even possible.

 

Omg, I could see it already...Draco's (if he's alive) child will be the next dark lord. Harry's son or daughter will be the light side's new hero, and Harry will take Dumbledore's role as an old coot.

Ewwww, just imagine all the possibilities!

 

I think there will be a lot more other era fics written. Dumbledores time at Hogwarts the Mauraders and the founders and when ever Merlin existed (I was never sure if he was long before the founders or only a hundred years or so)

 

"Historically" Merlin Wyllt (Merlin the Wild, a great seer/prophet) first appeared after the battle of Arfderydd in 573. Geoffrey of Monmouth and and Nennius place him (Merlin Ambrosius, shape shifter and wise man) a little later but still well before the 9th century when the Hogwarts Four would be around.

Modern Fiction's Merlin is a bit of a combination of both with a healthy dose of folklore added to T.H. White's and Marion Zimmer Bradley's own twisted minds.

Sadly, wikipedia's influence on this post was minimal beyond supplying the dates, I actually knew the other bits. I'm a geek for Arthurian Legends.

 

Well, the one great thing about the seventh book will be far far less post-HBP fic.

I see the fandom weakening for sure, but I don't think it'll die. There are plenty of fandoms with small but strong followings (LOTR or SW for instance) despite the canon material essentially having finished all the major storylines. HP's fandom is too big to completely disappear. I'm guessing even after the 7th the HP fanfic scene will still be the largest one.

Where did you hear this, about the last chapter being what happens to everybody? Anyone got a link at all? She's actually going to have a sort of epilogue telling the story of years down the road? That seems... sickening. Ending the storyline is one thing. Summing up the entire rest of their lives in a few paragraphs is horrifying.

But I am nearly certain, considering the popularity of HP, no publisher will let her unintentionally encourage her MASSIVE worldwide following into teen marriage or pregnancy.

 

What hapens with FF in a year or so? Well, that depends on how the book ends.

The best case scenario would be that Ginny sacrifices herself to awaken Harry's power of love. That could give Independent!Harry, Azkaban!Harry and all the DLP compatible genres a nice new boost (with Weasleys blaming Harry etc...).

I have a strage feeling that Harry could end up reincarnated in his son or daughter. In that case, we'll probably a whole new generation of 1st year fics with new characters.

If Harry dies, that wil be pretty bad scenario for FF. We'll probably slow decline of various AU's, until JKR publishes something new in HPVerse. Unlike Star Wars and LOTR, Potterverse doesn't have a whole lot of 'cool' characters that could take a lead role.

The worst case scenario would be the one that Nonjon had mentioned - Summary of everyone's lives after the end of the series. That would definitely kill the fandom.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

 

That certainly is a strange idea, what makes you think that?

I think there will be a lot of OC main character fics where the author is really the boy/girl who lived.

Just thinking about it......... *shudder

 

And what of DLP? Is this forum going to be like the fiction of SW still around, or will it be completely different?

Obviously, most stories will be AU's, from any of the years. But, I have a horrible feeling about the poor quality of magical fighting and the power of love and how that will affect HP FF for years to come.

 

Sorry to break it to you then, but ...

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