The Tolkien Society VS The Society of Tolkien
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The concept of an Official club can only hold water if it's something along the lines of "the original creator is actively here in this group", and even then it's dubious.
Yes, yes and yes.
But now more and more people are conditioned to only like the fan fiction version of things. We have a whole generation of people who live by the fan fiction of Harry Potter. No, not the actual sotry, but theirn "headcanons" and "condings" and such.
Ask these people to describe Hermione or Sirius or whichever character. I bet my ass they will do it based on Tumblr edits and Ao3 tags. Not what the story actually says.
You can't do that if the author is around and will answer your questions in real time. Not even Just Kiddin' Rowling, queen of retcon allows for that.
Good ol' Hermione and her white face sticking out from behind a tree.