Re: OT: Harry

Sarah Marie Parker-Allen scripsit:

> "On the whole, Mary Sue fan stories tend to be written by new writers whose
> first idea for a story follow a pattern of self-insertion (acting out their
> personal fantasy vicariously through an original character), and their "Mary
> Sue" characters suffer from the following characteristics:
Hmm.  Is Harriet Vane (who, God knows, is a candidate for Most Hated
Character in Series Fiction) a conscious anti-Mary Sue?

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Droid loses chameleon, chameleon becomes blob, droid gets blob back
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