I've been putting a lot of effort into reading Harry Potter fan fiction over the last few months. Contemplating all that's been done with it but the inconsistencies and the overall weak characters, despite how much people imply about them, and the terribly bad last 2 books in the series make me desire not to write in it. I could write in it. I could write original stories, but I dislike writing idiots and most of the characters in those stories, being written for children as they are, are idiots, thus maddening. My temper finds it difficult to work within that context. And Rowling is already too rich. So what to do? It was suggested here, when book 7 was released (total crap that it is) that the next fandom should be Dresden Files. So I looked into it. Watched the videos, which are okay but not excellent and heard the books were better. I finally got some on Saturday and read the first 1.5 of them thus far. Jim Butcher's prose is good. Its tightly written, not Iain Banks, but appropriate for the Noir Crime Drama style and its character driven rather than a long series of Uber!Harry plotlines, though I understand his character evolves over time, as it should.
I'm finding Dresden to be more worthy of my attentions so I suspect those frustrated with Harry Potter's childishness would enjoy it too. Btw, each of the Dresden novels, despite being short at only a couple hundred pages, still has as much violence and dark drama and monster fighting as any 3 of the Potter novels. That's rather a plus. Its also good that it includes the Fae and demon worlds, ignored by Rowling despite Britain being rife with them. You gotta limit things for a children's story. You don't when you're writing for adults.
I'm finding Dresden to be more worthy of my attentions so I suspect those frustrated with Harry Potter's childishness would enjoy it too. Btw, each of the Dresden novels, despite being short at only a couple hundred pages, still has as much violence and dark drama and monster fighting as any 3 of the Potter novels. That's rather a plus. Its also good that it includes the Fae and demon worlds, ignored by Rowling despite Britain being rife with them. You gotta limit things for a children's story. You don't when you're writing for adults.