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I think FanFiction is similar to someone writing a novel about the civil war. The environment already exists and the author can tell a story without having to develop the entire world and rules for the environment that surrounds the story. Developing a world or universe is really a different skill from telling a story. Since HP is a series of stories and since there was a great deal of time between the episodes, one form of fan fic was to take the story so far and tell the next part before the real author writes it a year later. It can be a fun read to see how the story might play out from the same point. I have read some really good stores like this. Another form, usually a short story, is to take an event that is only barely mentioned in the original and then expand it with a little imagination. It is the story, not the setting that people read.
Dale
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