A Fanfiction Writer At Hogwart's
Before all this happened, no one at Hogwart's, not even the considerably large Muggle-born population had heard of fanfiction.
It was Ginny Weasley, who on her second year at the school began writing fanfiction. Her first attempt at it was about the old American television series called 'Bewitched', which she saw during her summer break when her father had brought home and 'fixed' a Muggle box theater. She found that the show was very accurate.
"There must be lots of witches in the place they called Hollywood," she thought.
Her story was short and almost plotless, revolved around Samantha trying to get her children into Hogwart's. Though the story never saw the light of day again, Ginny found inspiration, why not write stories about her school and it's students.
It took her a minute to decide that she would write about none other than the great Harry Potter. She began by piecing together what she knew of his past and then slowly worked up to his arrival at Hogwart's, to the battle with Professor Quiggle. Exhausted, she stopped and looked at the considerable bulk of parchment she had used and figured to end her story there.
Ginny wrote all this in the period of two weeks. A week later, using Owl Mail she distributed copies to her friends, who in turn made copies and distributed them too. No sooner had the owls taken flight that the students had grown hungry for their own copy of "The Adventures of Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ronald Weasley Concerning the Philosopher's Stone During their First Year at Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry". By the end of that week, the title had been condensed to simply "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" and everyone at Hogwart's. Even most of the faculty had a copy of the so-called 'Potter Book'. Professor Snape, who found that he was wrongly portrayed, began each Potions class that week with the disclaimer that, "I'm not the cold, frigid, ruthless bastard that this second-rate attempt at self-flattery pictures me to be."
Harry and most of the people featured in the book, tried to stay away from it. With the exception of Snape, of course, who later ordered Mr. Filch to monitor owl traffic for 'unusually bulky packages of parchment.'
Ginny found a way around this, by distributing her next work, 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets', a parchment at a time. The 'book' was met with the same enthusiasm and some concern, especially from the Ministry of Magic. An investigation was called for, thanks to pressure from Lucius Malfoy, who denied his involvement with the whole Tom Riddle diary incident.
The Ministry never found out who the writer was as the name, under which the 'books' was written, J.K. Rowling, did not exist in their records. The Daily Prophet followed the trail and headed to a dead end as well.
During the summer break, she released the third 'Potter book", Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban', which was a hit but dismissed by many as a whimsical deviation from the real events. Sirius Black who was still a fugitive, moved farther away north to keep away from the Dementors who took the 'book' seriously. But it was not the only Potter story to come out that summer, as many of those who read Ginny Weasley's fanfiction had began writing their own stories. There were many fanfics speculating about Sirius and Lupin and those who knew James Potter, wrote about his life.
Even Snape, was a favorite among the fan writers who began creating stories about his childhood and his early years. "I ask you not to believe this vicious lies that are being brought out about me," he began giving out this disclaimer as the new school year started.
Ginny began carrying a notebook to write down events and even conversations that might prove useful to writing the next book. As early as the Quidditch World Cup she had enough material for several chapters, then came the announcement at the banquet of the Tri-Wizard competition. The new school year was proving to be more interesting than the rest and she was ready to tell the whole story, again.