For me, I've sort of left the HP fandom a long time ago, and went to work on my own projects. These projects are all grounded in HP background, but they deal more with the present-day. I'm doing a lot of world-building, merging the two communities in nations other than the UK, and it's very fun to take canon and reality and try to mush it together without setting things on fire. Much. Unfortunately now, I'm a bit of a rudderless boat because canon and I went our seperate ways around OotP....
That 19 year gap is rather daunting because, I think, we don't know where the characters go afterwards. The glimpse in the epilogue is just a glimpse, whereas before TDH, people knew that eventually Ron/Hermione are going to get together, so it's easier to write something about that process of building a relationship; you know what the end result is.
Also, it's been roughly 17 years since the series started, I believe? The people who started reading the books from the very beginning are college/graduate students now or are branching out into the workforce. We still love our Harry Potter series, but we just don't have that much time to commit anymore to writing and fandom in general. It's something I've noticed that's been happening to a whole host of fandoms recently.
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Date: 2008-02-11 09:55 pm (UTC)That 19 year gap is rather daunting because, I think, we don't know where the characters go afterwards. The glimpse in the epilogue is just a glimpse, whereas before TDH, people knew that eventually Ron/Hermione are going to get together, so it's easier to write something about that process of building a relationship; you know what the end result is.
Also, it's been roughly 17 years since the series started, I believe? The people who started reading the books from the very beginning are college/graduate students now or are branching out into the workforce. We still love our Harry Potter series, but we just don't have that much time to commit anymore to writing and fandom in general. It's something I've noticed that's been happening to a whole host of fandoms recently.