Plans.

I must tell you all- I am heartbroken. A boy I knew and loved died last night, on July 15th. His name was Harry Potter, and he was killed by Voldemort.

Now for those of you hopeless people out there who have NOT read the books, first of all you make me very sad, and second of all, I'm not going to tell you what happens in this movie because that would be rude of me.

But I will tell you about that night.
I got to see the final movie in the amazing, decade long phenomenon series of books and movies, HARRY POTTER & THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2. It was the most amazing night in a long time. I dressed as Voldemort's faithful servant, Bellatrix, and went to the midnight premier showing at 12:01 in 3D. The entire audience acted as one from the very moment the lights dimmed in the theatre. Through the entire movie, we all cried, laughed, clapped, and cheered together at all the right moments. The end recieved the most thunderous applause of all, only beating out Mrs. Weasley's line to Bellatrix- "Not my daughter, you BITCH!"- by a few hoots and hollers and pairs of hands. But I felt, empty when the lights came up. It truly felt like a part of me had died.

Harry Potter was my childhood, what I grew up with, the one place that I modeled all of my childhood imaginations and dreams off of. Harry Potter was the defining characteristic of my generation. Now that it's finally over, what else is there for me to hold onto in my pre-adult life that still connects me to my youth? It's.... over. Those words are hard for me to accept, or understand. I don't want to believe it's over. I tried to accept it, but acceptance won't come. So an idea formed in my head. I can make Harry Potter live on. ME. And that's what I plan to do.

So. Here's the point of my post (really):
I'm planning on writing a fan fiction. I'm announcing this, because I think I'm going to make this a big project. I'm going to spend a long time on it, not half-assing or anything. I'm going to do my intense Harry Potter research, plotting timelines, bloodlines, and storylines. I'm not just going to write a story that I don't know how it's going to end. I'm going to write a story, and know exactly where, who, what, when, and why is happening. I want to know my characters inside and out before I write a word about anything they do. I want to know my setting better than the very town I grew up in. I want this more than I want anything. So this is what I will do.

1. Research Phase
-Reading the books again.
-Noting each bloodline (Harry's, Ron's, Hermione's, Voldemort's, Dumbledore's.)
-Noting each friend-foe relationship, allegiance (Voldemort, or Dumbledore/Harry)

2. Outline Phase
-Character development (name, age, personality, lineage, parenthood, ect.)
-Chapter plotline
-Draft ending, work backwards drafting chapter-by-chapter

3. Writing Phase
-Working backwards, make a rough draft of each chapter.
-PROOFREAD. Make necessary changes.
-Draft FORWARDS this time.
-PROOFREAD. Make necessary changes.
-Compare both rough manuscripts
-Combine (if necessary)

4. Editing Phase
-Pretty self-explanatory. Edit the F**K out of it.

After that, I don't know how many years will have gone by, but hopefully (maybe?) this will only take a year or two. But seriously, after that, I'm not sure what to do. Send a rough first chapter out to publishing companies. I doubt they'll take another look at a fan fiction, but I'd love them to at least look. Maybe I'll get lucky.


I know this seems like a lot of hype over something I'm inevitably going to give up. I always seem to. But this time is different. There's a personal connection, an emotion attached behind the motives to do this. I want this so badly. I want to make Harry Potter even more immortal than J.K. Rowling has made him. It's going to be a lot of work, but I'm looking forward to it.