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Cassandra Claire was a fan and fanwriter most active in the Harry Potter fandom. She is considered by some one of the fandom's first Big Name Fans after gaining popularity (and perhaps notoriety) for her epic fanfiction series, The Draco Trilogy, and its resulting plagiarism controversy. The majority of her fanfiction was written as the fandom was rapidly gaining popularity and played a major role in shaping Draco Malfoy's fandom characterization.

Outside the Harry Potter fandom, Cassandra Claire also wrote The Very Secret Diaries, which was wildly popular in Lord of the Rings fandom.

Cassandra Claire has since retired from fandom and removed her fanfiction as she has launched her profic career. (See Fans Turned Pro.)

Notable Fanworks

• The Very Secret Diaries (Lord of the Rings)
• The Draco Trilogy (Harry Potter, Harry/Hermione)
  1. Draco Dormiens
  2. Draco Sinister
  3. Draco Veritas
  • Draco Veritas Cookie: Why Draco is so Fond of Green Umbrellas
  • Draco Veritas Christmas Cookies: Christmas Shopping, Disobedience, Malfoys in the Garden, Two Letters
• Caveat Lector (HP, Ginny Weasley/Tom Riddle)
• A Lot to Be Upset About (HP, Draco/Ginny)
• Something Impossible (HP, Harry/Draco)
• Written (HP, Draco/Ginny)
• A Season in Hell (HP, Harry/Draco)
  • Sequel: After the Flood

Controversies

Over the years various fannish circles noted with distaste the similarities between Claire's writing and various science fiction television and print sources, resulting in flare-ups of plagiarism accusation (and debate, and wank) on a regular basis between 2001 and 2006. Locations of this discussion include the Glass Onion mailing list, Fanfiction.net, and several HP venues.

In 2006, Avocado wrote a lengthy exposé of the plagiarism in Claire's writing for Bad Penny, providing evidence of (and a venue for) many more observed instances of plagiarism than had previously been counted.^[1] This effort also chronicled the timeline of obfuscations and rationalizations Claire provided when readers queried her about unsourced and uncredited quoting.

Profic Career

Cassandra Claire formally withdrew from media fandom and published science fiction novels under "Cassandra Clare". ^[2]

Wank about the fan did occur when the published author put out her first novel, which involved both media fandom and science fiction fandom, but in general the allegations of plagiarism and bad behavior against the fan are not well known among people who interact with the published author.^[3]

References

1. ↑ The Cassandra Claire Plagiarism Debacle in Journalfen's bad_penny community, posted 2006-08-04 by avocado. Accessed 9 December 2008.
2. ↑ Wikipedia page about Cassandra Clare Accessed December 10, 2008
3. ↑ 8th August 2006. John Scalzi. Whatever: Crimes of Fanfic. Accessed 10 December 2008.
   See the comments by Barry Goldblatt (August 10, 2006 12:23 AM) and Justine Larbalestier (August 12, 2006 04:51 PM).