The Cassie Claire Primer

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Title:	The Cassie Claire Primer
Creator:	ignatius
Date(s):	October 14, 2004, comments from July 2005
Medium:	online
Fandom:	Harry Potter
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External Links:	The Cassie Claire Primer; WebCite
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The Cassie Claire Primer was posted by Ignatius.

It is a recap of the Cassandra Claire Plagiarism Debacle.

The post contains a lot of commentary by white serpent and Heidi8 posted in July 2005.

Introduction

I figured this would be a good resource to point people towards when Cassie invariably comes up in another wank, and someone wonders who she is, and why she's always mentioned. I used to read her Draco series back in the day on ff.net, so I’m pretty sure I have the timeline down.

Cassie’s Draco series was extremely popular on ff.net, until it was deleted because parts of it were plagiarized. There were two types of plagiarism going on- first, the use of direct or bastardized quotes from various TV shows and media, Buffy, Newsradio, ect. Some of her fans made a game out of trying to figure out all of the quotes, but others had no idea where she got her sharp turn of phrase- especially since, before the plagiarism scandal, she gave no credit at all to her sources.

(Edited in on 12/9/04: During a current wank, a helpful anonymouse gives us some examples of her manipulating quotes.)

The second kind of plagiarism was a bit more serious- a long passage from a Pamela Dean novel found itself in the middle of the second story, with just the names changed. Cassie then claimed she had written the passage in her journal years earlier, and when she came back and reread it, she thought it was her own original work. (...wtf?) So she changed the names and put it in her story. It remains there today- apparently in the meantime, Pamela Dean gave Cassie permission to use it. I’ve heard Cassie fangirls claim that it’s not really plagiarism, since she has permission, but she most definitely did NOT have it when it was originally posted.