Half Blood Prince does not spell the death of Harry Potter fan
fiction. Just because I can't see myself getting involved in post HBP
fics doesn't mean others won't make the attempt.
Let me put it this way. To date Alyx and I have written two H/G six
and seventh year fictions, totalling over 400K words.
Sunset is just coming up to christmas holiday and I'm not honestly
sure if we've even hit the half way point as far as chapter count is
concerned. Its a H/Hr ship, and it's sequel will cover the period of
the seventh year. Ten Chapters so far and we're very close to 150K
words so far. How big it will be when we're done is anyone's guess.
Both sets of these books start after OOTP. Which is wonderfully open
ended with such a marvelous starting point. Unfortunately HBP has
narrowed the options tremendously. Horcruxes, its all about finding,
destroying, eating and otherwise killing horcruxes.
In canon R/Hr is pretty much a given. Harry kicked Ginny to the curb
and will probably end up with no one. So much for love being the power
he knows not. Personally I'm rooting for a Harry Hedwig ship. Silly of
me I know, but unless Ginny somehow manages to knock some sense into
Harry, its just not going to happen.
- Bob
