And I loved fanfic, and I love it still (as I'm sure we all do), even grown up as I am- and now here's Carry On, which is a beautiful, lovely, original story (NOT a fic itself, though it certainly has the history of the Harry Potter fandom giving it a certain heft, and probably is a lot more luminescent to those certain fans fluent in Potterese.) and it feels like a validation. It's a book I would have never imagined could ever be published, back when I was just a teenager and had discovered the secret part of the internet where people wrote and talked about "fanfiction" together. Okay, it's not a miracle - it's a well-written YA fantasy romance in a magical school setting, but it feels like a miracle to me. The first thing I thought when I read the last page of Carry On and slowly shut the cover: This book is a miracle.
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