My gift to the fandom

[heidi]

How to spot a fake:

Bonibaru posted this to VeelasInc this morning:

> A friend of mine recently posted that she'd been emailed a copy
> of "the 5th HP book" in e-book form (PDF file). She wanted me to
> tell her if it seemed legitimate, or was a fake.
>
> It's pretty clear ... that it's a big
> hairy fake.


And I replied with this Investigative Report:

It's from a Czech fanfic site, so I won't mock the grammar - it was
likely written by someone who is not a native English speaker.

You can find it here: http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:c4FFHelgjSQC:www.harrypotter.cz/en/chapter1.htm+%22%22HARRY!%22,+yelled+the+voice.+Now+Harry+knew+who+was+making+it,+his+Aunt+Petunia.%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

And here's how to have a VERY easy time determining whether the PDF
some t00b sends to you is definitely a fake:

Google it.

Take a sentence or two from the begining or the middle, and paste it
into Google.com - if it's a fanfic, it *will* show up somewhere. If
it doesn't show up, that doesn't mean it's definitely real, but the
fact of its showing up will make it dead clear that it's just someone's
fanfic.

Now, there have been a few cases of fanfics being taken by people other than the original author and uploaded to Kazaa or emailed around, usually in PDF format with page numbers and stuff, and being passed off as OoTP. I know it's happened to psychic_serpent's fic. So please, don't blame the author if you see a fanfic being passed off as OoTP. It's likely as not that it's not the fault of the author at all.

Feel free to pass the above around, btw.

Now, you may return to your various battlestations.

Comments

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

You know, I'm actually fairly pleased that if any novel-length fanfic had to be touted around as supposedly OotP, it turned out to be Psychic Serpent...

[aome.livejournal.com]

If I bat my eyelashes and look at you with wide puppy-dog eyes, will you edit the link into a hyperlink, so it doesn't push my Friends page all out alignment?

[owlman.livejournal.com]

I was thinking something similar.

@Heidi - put (instead of what you have currently): You can find it <a href="http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:c4FFHelgjSQC:www.harrypotter.cz/en/chapter1.htm+%22%22HARRY!%22,+yelled+the+voice.+Now+Harry+knew+who+was+making+it,+his+Aunt+Petunia.%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8">here<a/>

[slytherincesss.livejournal.com]

Am not Nancy, so take this with a grain of salt, but I have adopted "Hey Pretty" by Poe as my own personal MPI theme song. To me, it's perfectly Nancy's Draco. You can google the lyrics.

[nmalfoy.livejournal.com]

Haven't heard that... will check it out.

Also, Heidi, I thought of two more from the soundtrack (am at work so don't have the list with me)
Mike Patton: "Peeping Tom"
Bon Jovi: "Someday I'll be Saturday Night"

Re: Hey Pretty

[slytherincesss.livejournal.com]

Hey Pretty
Well it's 3a.m. I'm out here driving again
Through the wicked winding streets of my world
I take a wrong turn break it but I'm too far gone
I've got a siren on my tale and that's not the fine
I'm looking for


I see a stairway so I follow it down
Into the belly of a whale
Where my secrets echo all around
You know me now but to do better than that
You've got to follow me
Boy I'm trying to show you where I'm at


Hey pretty
Don't you wanna take a ride with me?
Through my world
Hey pretty
Don't you wanna kick and slide with me
Through my world


Well I've got a mind full of wicked desings
I've got a non-stop-whole in my head-imagination
I can't forget I am a sole architect
I built the shadows here
I built the growl in the voice I fear
You know me now but to do better than that
You've got to follow me
Boy I'm triing to show you where I'm at


Hey pretty
Don't you wana take a ride with me?
Through my world
Hey pretty
Don't you wanna kick and slide with me
Through my world
Hey pretty
My pretty baby
Rock it through my world


Hey now
Can't you feel me longing
Hey now
You get the gist of the song now?

[nmalfoy.livejournal.com]

I can send you the songs on the MPI soundtrack if you like. But the main theme (the title theme, I guess) is "Harlem Nocturne" by the Viscounts. It should be on the web too. Also on the soundtrack:

Miles Davis, "Kind of Blue"
The Hollies, "Long Cool Woman"
Golden Earring, "Twilight Zone"
Ella Fitzgerald, "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered"
Louis Armstrong, "St. James' Infirmary"
Harry James, "It's been a long, long time"
Jimmy Dorsey, "Green Eyes" (Helen O'Connell and Bob Eberly, vocalists)

[melieltathariel.livejournal.com]

I can't believe someone thought they could pull that off.

[sh0rteeqt.livejournal.com]

Neither could I. I'm equally as surprised that some people believed it was really OotP. Why would JKR's publishers put book 5 on the internet?

Then again, someone did find it in a field.

[ex-yasmina.livejournal.com]

Ha, my friend was gloating at me that she'd read OotP because it had been emailed to her. Shall have to go and prove her wrong now. >:D