Thanks Eva,
I may have let my feelings about fanfiction (“stagnant pond”) get the better of me in the passage on The Cursed Child. I actually thought the story was very good, and appropriate to the Harry Potter universe. (And of course JKR has approved it and probably had at least some hand in forming it.) But I understand your resistance to reading something that isn’t part of the “real” canon. Probably the story would be better seen on stage. (I did wonder – reading the stage instructions – how some of it is done.)

Thanks for your comment Kim.
I recently read this blog article Learning from Reading on Writer Unboxed which makes a point of encouraging readers (and so writers) to read adventurously. But so long as I’m reading, it’s what I’ve always done. I have catholic tastes.
🙂
I’m not always sure that’s a virtue, but I hope.