I was 読書 someone's ファン fiction when i came across something that annoyed me. It was also a little funny how ignorant people can be.

Of course, they should check their information first, there are enough sites like the HP Lexicon または the HP Wiki, Mugglenet, または even the Wikipedia pages themselves, to provide information.

As a fanfic writer myself, I make the effort whenever I have the slightiest doubt.

However, like Bri said, in some places, "Ginny" is short for "Virginia". No wonder this had been their first reflex. あなた may still write a review to point out the mistake - in a courteous fashion, of course.

Besides, there are worse mistakes in my opinion : like misspelling characters' names, for example, while the names are well-known, and/or omitting capitals for proper names.

Plus the fanfic writers that write badly, despising punctuation and grammar and spelling alike, mistreating the language (which often is their mother tongue...), all these grate on my nerves, much もっと見る than a mere error on a name like the one あなた described (which is annoying as writers are supposed to know their subject). Anybody, including me, can make mistakes and despite careful attention, some of these mistakes escape our corrections. But some "writers" are either immature または lazy (or both) to bother checking this out, alas. They don't even realize they need a thorough beta-reading, whatever the language they use. Well, just my opinion as a writer.

Depending on when the fic was written, it may not have been an ignorant mistake. We actually don't find out until later in the series (I want to say book five?) that 'Ginny' is short for 'Ginevera.' And some places 'Ginny' is short for 'Virginia.' So, if they wrote the fic before the information was given, and live in a place where Ginny/Virginia is もっと見る common than Ginny/Ginevera, then it wouldn't be an ignorant mistake at all.

If あなた are going to wright a ファン fic, あなた should have the correct information, shouldn't you?
Depends on the type of fic you're writing, generally. I mean, yes, あなた should get the characters name right (if the information is out there at the time the fic was published), but some "correct" information (like, Dumbledore dying または Lupin being straight) is もっと見る than allowed to be stretched, skewed, または just taken out for the fanfiction to work.

ppl r soooooo ignorant but what really bugs me is that ppl 愛 to ship poor hermione with harry draco snape and lupin why cant they stick to the right info of ron and hermione being together??? but this mistake of callling ginny virginia is an non permissible :(

Yes あなた should have the write info または ells people will get confused.

Yeah, beggs the crap out of me too. At least get the names right. I was 読書 one where they called Harry, Jerry? I mean seriously, he's the fricking main character!

lmfao are あなた sure あなた dident miss understand what they were trying to say beacuse thats really messed up lmfao