I couldn't agree more. When I first started reading fanfiction, I would read anything, and I would eat it up. Not only that, but I became indoctrinated, and actually started looking for fics that were direct paraphrases of ones I had just finished. Hell, my first fic (abandoned and stripped from the web, thank you) was an H/G R/Hr Super!Harry Post-HBP! The only reason it wasn't more cliché than that was because I had (mercifully) never read a Gringotts-based Political!Harry fic!

Now, of course, my standards are much higher. I usually won't even read the first chapter of anything unless it gets a ringing endorsement from a source I respect (namely the good folks here at DLP ).

On a side note, it will be interesting to see how many people actually post updates or reviews or ANYTHING during the few days after the release of Deathly Hallows...

 

For me its come to the point of: What makes good fanfiction good?