The Quidditch Field

Website
Name:	The Quidditch Field
Owner/Maintainer:	Rex
Dates:	1999-present, though hasn't been updated in years
Type:
Fandom:	Harry Potter
URL:	The Quidditch Field
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The Quiddiitch Field is a very early Harry Potter fanfic site created by Rex (ghettocheese).

Some Website History

Part One: From the Quidditch Field to the Apocalypse

My long twisted journey in Harry Potter fandom began when I was 11. My mom read my siblings and me The Sorcerer's Stone over a series of nights as a way for us to spend time together. She got to the second to last chapter, and then the next day before she read it I picked the book up and finished it. It was that damn good. Then I ruined it all to my brother, and my mom found out.

So she decided to give me the second one, which I read in a day. The third was due in a month or two...on my twelfth birthday: September 8, 1999.

It was a long wait for that book. And at that time there was relatively few Harry Potter websites on the web. So I fired up my dad's computer, connected to the Internet via our awesome 26.6 k dial-up modem, went to Yahoo, and typed in "Harry Potter." This lead me to the Unofficial Harry Potter Fan Club...which was at Geocities at the time. It was not the powerhouse for 5 year olds it is now; there were only a few people on it, but the webmaster had dedication.

And a links page.

This links page led me to my first fandom buddy: Gypsy of the Realm...then at Angelfire. Inspired by her homegrown webpage, I sent her off an email right after making my website and asking her to be my friend. Okay, maybe not exactly like that, but to fill you in on time frame...right now it's August 31, 1999...a whole millenium ago! Well, I got my site together...it launched (well, only on certain computers that Angelfire wasn't a bitch with) on my 12th birthday, September 8, 1999. I got the third book September 10 as a late birthday present from my grandma, and I totally devoured it. It was awesome, my new favorite book.

Then around the same time, Gypsy's fan fic came out...actually it was a few days before that, but whatever. I read it and totally dug it, told her the same, and the seeds of a friendship were born. (For now though, we are very much out of touch and haven't spoken to each other since the movie came out.)