What was your Plan for researching hp and why do you want to?
Well here I explained it, being #melodramatic on main about it.
If I’m about to embark on a huge project in a fandom, I tend to go for consuming the relevant parts again - before i started my Complementing Baggage-Series, I picked over memory alpha for episodes of DS9 to rewatch, and I rewatched and took notes (and even more notes on new ideas)
Part of my process, if you will - find inspiration and ideas.Â
And I never read the HP books in English, the original, and since I have a rather huge pile of planned stories in the Fandom that just felt … off.
I remember reading German fic by people who only ever read the English Originals, when I was younger, and I could just TELL, so many little signs, and it kept destroying my suspension of disbelief.Â
I’ve probably picked up most of the relevant terms by sheer osmosis, after all the Fics I’ve read by now, but the line between canon and fanon and …
well basically it seemed like a good idea at the time.