The Forsaken... a lament

Oh so many years ago, I began writing a little-known Harry Potter character named Megan Jones. If I wanted to post outside my own journal, I usually had to fight to keep her from being labeled an OC. The link to her name on the HP-Lexicon was on a piece of paper next to my monitor for those times I needed to quickly assert her rights to be part of "canon". She was on a piece of paper somewhere in JKR's vast store of notes. A school chum of the Trio... or at least someone they might see in the halls.

Now she crops up from time to time in places I didn't put her. I feel like a proud mother every time I see her inclusion into fics and RPs. My little girl... all grown up.

And now I am about to venture forth with new characters that people don't recognize straight off. Benjy Fenwick? Dorcas Meadows? Marlene McKinnon? Who? A set of people in a picture with an epitaph and nothing more. Their history is stuck in JKR's head.

I want to write about them and share the stories but I fear having to go through the same song and dance. No, they aren't OC. Yes, they are in the books. A new set of children to look after and cultivate to send them out into the big, wide world.

Having said that, if you know of any place (besides the community I just started: first_order, which celebrates ALL members of The Order of the Phoenix both old and new) where some of these characters are either being written (cause I haven't found any in the last week) or would be accepted, please PLEASE let me know. I'm all up for joining a new community if it gives me a good excuse to write more stories about these characters that I am coming to like very, very much.

The Forsaken... a lament

Oh so many years ago, I began writing a little-known Harry Potter character named Megan Jones. If I wanted to post outside my own journal, I usually had to fight to keep her from being labeled an OC. The link to her name on the HP-Lexicon was on a piece of paper next to my monitor for those times I needed to quickly assert her rights to be part of "canon". She was on a piece of paper somewhere in JKR's vast store of notes. A school chum of the Trio... or at least someone they might see in the halls.

Now she crops up from time to time in places I didn't put her. I feel like a proud mother every time I see her inclusion into fics and RPs. My little girl... all grown up.

And now I am about to venture forth with new characters that people don't recognize straight off. Benjy Fenwick? Dorcas Meadows? Marlene McKinnon? Who? A set of people in a picture with an epitaph and nothing more. Their history is stuck in JKR's head.

I want to write about them and share the stories but I fear having to go through the same song and dance. No, they aren't OC. Yes, they are in the books. A new set of children to look after and cultivate to send them out into the big, wide world.

Having said that, if you know of any place (besides the community I just started: first_order, which celebrates ALL members of The Order of the Phoenix both old and new) where some of these characters are either being written (cause I haven't found any in the last week) or would be accepted, please PLEASE let me know. I'm all up for joining a new community if it gives me a good excuse to write more stories about these characters that I am coming to like very, very much.