Hey, my name's Simone, and my family lives in the continental United States but I go to college in Vancouver, British Columbia! I'm majoring in Comparative Literature and minoring in French. I looooooove Harry Potter... and other books, too, but Harry Potter is pretty much the only thing I'll read/write on fanfiction.

I'm French. Or I guess technically I'm American, but my dear mother is French and I lived in France for five years a while back. Dual citizenship and everything... I use my American passport for entering and exiting America and the French one for traveling around Europe. I write stories in English because the computer in my room has an English spellchecker, not a French one, and because I think my writing in French sucks, as I moved back to the US when I was eight and thus spell/write like an eight-year-old.

Anyway, if I write a story, it's something I've been thinking about for a while. The plot is already pretty much worked out in my head: I just have to put it onto the accursed computer.

All the names in stories I write will be in some way indicitive of personality, or clever in some other way. (Haha; I am so modest.) But seriously, if you take the trouble to look the name of an OC up, you'll nod your head joyfully as the logic behind it hits you. (Or maybe not.)

I generally don't update any more than bi-monthly, because I only write fanfiction when I'm either bored or else extremely inspired.

Ships: whatever, as long as it's well done.

I have three pet peeves with regard to fanfics:

(1) When people refer to characters as anything other than “he/she/her/him," “(person’s name),” or "the (person's profession)," (this last one's pushing it, actually) because nobody – I repeat nobody – who ever wrote anything decent or got anything published used descriptive terms like “the gangly redhead” or “the brunette witch.” It’s soooooo overly formal. It ruins good writing. Just don’t do it. Okay? Okay. takes several deep breaths

(2) When people have characters say stuff in languages they don’t speak. Or actually, just when they do it in French, (or in Spanish or Italian if their Spanish or Italian is so terrible that even I can tell it’s wrong) because then it totally screws up the effect. Don’t trust those online translators, people! Look up phrases, if you must, but don’t have anybody have a conversation in another language unless you’re bloody fluent.

(3) When people make Peter Pettigrew out to be a jackass in time travel or Marauders-era fics. Consider: he fooled everybody. He couldn't have been too obnoxious and suspicious, or they wouldn’t have made him Secret Keeper, had him in the Order, or trusted him in the first place.

All that said, this stuff doesn't bother me that much, and I still love plenty of stories that commit the above offenses. However - in my opinion, of course - a story can't be truly fabulous unless it has avoided these (to my mind) blunders. And if your stories have this stuff, I really didn't intend to insult you! This is just my opinion, people! Please, don't hate me! prostrates self on floor

But anyways, so long for now, and happy reading!