I was 13 when I first started reading fanfic (nearly 8 years ago now), I had just moved house across the country, I didn't know anyone and I was already mildly obsessed with Harry Potter. I started with Harry/Ginny (because at 13 you don't really think about the possibility of two men) and read some of those, but then I just really started to get annoyed at Ginny!! I started watching CSI, in which the first fanfic I read was slash, which made me think 'Oh, men, men with men, harry pottery men with other men!!' This of course was a brilliant idea, why hadn't I found out sooner!! I then went to Harry/Draco, because the chemistry was perfect,(I still read Drarry now, I can't help it) and then I stumbled upon Snarry (which I think may have something to do with my love of tall, dark, intelligent, sarcastic men, but who knows?!). The first Snarry I remember reading was (I think) 'At the end of all things', at least it is definitely the one that sticks in my mind to the point that I read it about 5/6 years ago and even thinking about it now makes me want to cry. But Harry Potter fanfiction has been part of my life for over 1/3 of it so far, and I drift away and I come back again. I don't consider Snarry my OTP, I have two OTPs (Drarry and Snarry) and an OT3 (Sev/Harry/Draco)but really, if it's well written and I like it I will read quite a lot of other stuff just to say I have. But so many fics are just like my normal books, old friends that I look up when I need them. I can't quite imagine what my leisure time would be like otherwise (or in fact how much free time I would have without them). Yay for 10 years of Snarry! -x-x- -x-