June 2, 2007

Well, it was a good run while it lasted. The sun is setting toward a Final Book 7 with a month and half to go, leaving all Fanfictions sort of grasping for what's next. The truth is I don't know, but I'm not exactly in the mood to write something this close to being ghastly wrong with a few major characters getting the death ax/pen in HP7.

So without further ado... ah who am I kidding - I wrote fanfiction to help past the time between books. Afterall, I've had to endure the better part of a decade long wait for Book 5, 6 and now lastly 7. The kids that were raised on Harry Potter are all adults by now.

Like the rest of you, I'm at the end of this odyssey and I'm a bit misty eyed that it's almost over. The answers are in, and the untold will be told. So in comparison whatever I write will be rubbish. With that in mind, I hereby offically announce my retirement from Harry Potter Fanfiction. Effective Immediately.

Love to all of you and thank you for supporting me,

BuckNC :)

I have a confession. Sometime ago I left a rather not-so-subtle flame on a story I came across that was neither good nor realistic with Canon or even mere human interaction. In short it was terrible. I was honest of my assestment and gave them advice on how to improve it. They merely scoffed at me and downgraded me as some diehard Ron Hermione shipper. To which I admit that I am, but I still like to read good romantic fics from time to time even if they aren't Ron Hermione ships. I try to keep an open mind, hard as that might seem to some, and be encouraging to good writers to continue on. With that being said, the said offended author challenged me that you couldn't write a Harry Hermione fic without portraing Ron unrealistically in the negative light. As in Ron must go evil or cruel to there being a Harry Hermione fic. I replied back that he was wrong and if used a good bit of energy and work it wouldn't be that way at all. The lazy git didn't believe me and more or less challenged me to write one myself.

Anyway, I wrote a Harry Hermione fic from Ron's perspective. It's very Angst and certainly not the Good feel fic of the year. I never intended it to be. However, I wrote it as proof that with a bit of hard work and creative thought you don't have to be so negative or unrealistic with the trio's behavior or actions.

Now I didn't think it would be fair if I posted under my Penname when I clearly a Ron Hermione writer and I have a score of people that were nice enough to have me as one of their favorites. Instead I posted under a different Penname, BuckNC2 http://www.fanfiction.net/u/899570/.

If you want - feel free to read it and decide for yourself if I did what I set out to do. http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2589087/1/