Well - fanfic - I have written some in the past, and here's a link to one that might interest you:
http://mary-j-59.livejournal.com/3977.html#cutid1
It's the story I mentioned in the comment above. But I'm moving away from fanfic (except that a linking story between the Potterverse and 'my' universe is now nagging at me) and towards more orignal stuff. Honestly, I was so distressed by DH that I was seriously considering quitting fandom altogether.
It's interesting that you thought my idea of Harry's choice is completely Star Wars! I didn't think of it that way at all; I thought it was completely Christian, and I believed Rowling when she said she was writing a Christian story. That's at the heart of my disappointment. The values that, to me, are the core of Christianity (love, including love of enemies; forgiveness; redemption; transcendence) are so thoroughly absent from DH that I initially felt the book was empty and meaningless. And it's cast a pall on the rest of the series for me. Honestly, I'm only just now starting to get angry at (what seems) Rowling's moral and psychological obtuseness and her misuse of Christian symbols. When I first read the book, I was just depressed.
Adn I'm at the point now where I think I've said everything I have to say about the Potterverse and its characters. But I do wish you luck with your new community. DH could have been so much better than it was! Rowling had set up some fascinating ideas and characters in the first five books (HBP was the beginning of my disappointment, but there I thought she could still go either way) and then just dropped them in the service of what seemed a very mechanical and cold plot.
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http://mary-j-59.livejournal.com/3977.html#cutid1
It's the story I mentioned in the comment above. But I'm moving away from fanfic (except that a linking story between the Potterverse and 'my' universe is now nagging at me) and towards more orignal stuff. Honestly, I was so distressed by DH that I was seriously considering quitting fandom altogether.
It's interesting that you thought my idea of Harry's choice is completely Star Wars! I didn't think of it that way at all; I thought it was completely Christian, and I believed Rowling when she said she was writing a Christian story. That's at the heart of my disappointment. The values that, to me, are the core of Christianity (love, including love of enemies; forgiveness; redemption; transcendence) are so thoroughly absent from DH that I initially felt the book was empty and meaningless. And it's cast a pall on the rest of the series for me. Honestly, I'm only just now starting to get angry at (what seems) Rowling's moral and psychological obtuseness and her misuse of Christian symbols. When I first read the book, I was just depressed.
Adn I'm at the point now where I think I've said everything I have to say about the Potterverse and its characters. But I do wish you luck with your new community. DH could have been so much better than it was! Rowling had set up some fascinating ideas and characters in the first five books (HBP was the beginning of my disappointment, but there I thought she could still go either way) and then just dropped them in the service of what seemed a very mechanical and cold plot.