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As a fanfiction addict (and I've tried breaking that habit, honest!), as well as a long-term introvert whose best friends have been characters from books since I was a child, I can honestly say that fanfic provides explanations for those things that made no sense in the original. They make the illogical logical, take the "never gonna happen" into the realm of more than possible, and straighten out all those problems that I yelled at the authors about. Now I'll agree with many on this board who say there's a lot of really awful fanfiction, and if there's a distinct lack of quality, I can easily put it down and never think about it again. Fan fiction is free, can inspire ideas (which it has many times in my own work), and is generally a fun way to spend an hour or two (or more...).
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