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== The story is a copy of the Daily Prophet that Ron and Hermione's kids accidentally put online. ==
Hermione quickly fixed it with a charm that makes any muggle who looks at the page only see a terrible [[In Name Only|Harry Potter fanfic]].
* No, it's the real ''Daily Prophet'' article. Rita Skeeter wrote it with her usual level of accuracy. We're seeing it before it was given to her editor, so it's full of the innumerable spelling and grammar mistakes she always makes, but which said editor always cleans up before publication. Hey, in her articles from ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (novel)|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'' Rita canonically referred to Arthur Weasley as "Arnold Weasley" and misspelled the names of the other Triwizard champions. It's not too much of a stretch that her rough drafts would get everyone's names wrong as much as ''My Immortal'' does.
* Um, would computers even work around wizards and witches like Ron, Hermione, and their children? I think Hermione mentioned in the third book that technology (like surveillance equipment) just fizzles out when around magic.
** Firstly electric doesn't work around particularly magical places (ie. Hogwarts) not wizards and witches - otherwise there would be chaos in the homes of muggleborn children and Ron wouldn't have been able to use the phone in POA. Secondly, by Ron and Hermione's children's time wizards could have worked a way around this problem anyway.
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* As another Troper has said: Good theory I suppose, but most of us were just having fun with the guessing game.
* The artist behind the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131024093335/http://myimmortal.smackjeeves.com/comics/ "My Immortal: The Parody"] comic (NSFW) claims that she knows Tara Gilespie personally and yes, "My Immortal" was intended to be ''a completely serious fanfic''. Allegedly, Tara was only thirteen at the time she wrote it (hence her total lack of knowledge about sex). However, since she has no proof to back up her claims, we can only guess whether she's telling the truth.
== This fanfic will set up the biggest practical joke in the history of literature. ==
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** Tara is a [[Theme Park Version]] of a Satanist. Meyer thought if people thought she was a satanist they'd accept her works better than they would if she was a Mormon.
** Assuming that Stephanie Meyer really '''is''' a Mormon, and not a secret Satanist in disguise. <cue ominous music>
* Tara was her old pen-name before she converted into the Mormon religion. She left her "Goff" look behind but it was always in her heart. Her spelling improved after she completed her education... Then Twilight began. Just look at the [[Mary Sue]] character!!! The laughable gore of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20121021101836/http://www.chud.com/articles/articles/21684/1/THE-DEVIN039S-ADVOCATE-WHY-BREAKING-DAWN-MUST-BE-MADE-INTO-A-MOVIE/Page1.html final book] and the sheer stupidity MUST be from the same author!!!
** ''Twilight'' is older than ''My Immortal'' by a year.
*** It was a old story Meyers wrote and originally had on a different site but when it was taken down she copied it to Fanfiction.net where it became famous.
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**** What if Tara had the first book read to her (was it published?) when she was young, and she tried to impress Rowling with her own sequel. Rowling didn't respond, and that sent Tara on a downward spiral of illiteracy and hating the HP series, hence later writing a terrible fanfic from a "fan" of the series (proving the fans were idiots!), all the while still subconsciously trying to impress Rowling - by taking the love of mythical species (?) (vampires, wizards, etc.) and dark magic, that sort of thing, only times ten.
== Tara wrote My Immortal ''[[For the Evulz]]
Tara wanted to drive a mass amount of people insane and cause chaos. But due to the fact that she had no power in the outside world, she decided to wreck havoc on the internet. And thus ''[[My Immortal]]'' was born.
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*** That can be rationalized, however, if you're like the guy who wrote the paragraph above, and believe that Tara's account now is in somebody else's hands.
**** You don't even need to go ''that'' far. Someone above proposed that Tara wasn't a troll at first, but became one later on after realizing how bloody-awful the story was. With similar reasoning, it could be suggested that Tara is a troll ''now'', still has her account, and after she stopped writing ''MI'', is now just messing with people by editing her account information (and may actually be considering writing a new story just for the evulz).
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120128190952/http://myimmortal.smackjeeves.com/info/ This site's] founder claims to know the real Tara, and answers that she was legitimate.
** Think about this: If Tara wasn't a troll, why did she keep writing? By about chapter twenty if not earlier, it was obvious that she would only get mountains of flame reviews. Why would she keep going if she didn't get off on being flamed? When most newbie authors discover no one likes their story, they abandon or delete it -- they certainly don't pound out thirty more chapters of the same drivel. If Tara was writing the story only for herself, she could have kept writing it on her home computer and stopped posting it. The only reason to keep posting it would be because she wanted the flames.
*** Because Tara was stupid, arrogant, and stubborn - none of which are in short supply on internet young people.
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== Two guys trolled us. ==
[https://web.archive.org/web/20130605225646/http://ohinternet.com/My_Immortal/TheBatMan%27s_confession Here's the confession in all its glory].
* Well, if this is true, then this guy is the "real" version of Raven. I mean, he says he got locked out after chapter 15, and chapter 16 is the one in which Tara declared she had fallen out with Raven.
** What is this, the ''fourth'' time somebody claiming to be Tara, Raven, or another insider has shown up with a story? Yeah, but there's ''totally'' a chance it's true this time.
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== Ebony ''does'' exist in the canon Potterverse... ==
...but she's just an average Hogwarts student who is disillusioned about her life. Pretty much everything that happens in [[My Immortal]] is what she fantasizes about. She is madly infatuated with Draco and constantly wishes he'd "[[IKEA Erotica|put his thingy in (her) you-know-what]]", thinks a lot of the Gryffindor kids are actually pretty cool but doesn't want to admit it so she imagines them as "goffic" Slytherins instead, wishes she could be more heroic and imagines fighting the "bark lord", etc. As for all the references to Muggle culture...well, despite being a Slytherin, she's had several run-ins with Muggle culture and is obsessed with the music and movies from it. What about the fact that most of the Muggle stuff she likes didn't exist when Harry Potter took place? Well....[[A Wizard Did It|she got ahold of some sort of device that could allow her to see into the future]], and she realized that her favorite bands and movies happen to be from the 00's. But she forgot which works were from which decade, hence her not remembering that most of the muggle stuff she likes doesn't even exist yet when the story takes place.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101211061231/http://harrypotterfanon.wikia.com/wiki/Ebony_Way This] is the real story.
* Or, possibly, she is a Muggleborn Slytherin in the 2000s and the whole story is her wish-fulfillment fantasy.
** As a Muggleborn, she has been exposed to Muggle culture for most of her life.
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Actually, much of the 'Goffik' cast may qualify.
The symptoms of bipolar disorder, according to this [https://web.archive.org/web/20090615215651/http://www.healthline.com/adamcontent/bipolar-disorder?utm_medium=ask&utm_source=smart&utm_campaign=article&utm_term=Bipolar+
Also, "There is a high risk of suicide with bipolar disorder. While in either phase, patients may abuse alcohol or other substances, which can worsen the symptoms. Sometimes there is an overlap between the two phases. Manic and depressive symptoms may occur simultaneously or in quick succession in what is called a mixed state."
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Written by none other than Tara Gilesbe. What other way to screw with people's heads and prove you've improved/it was all a [[Troll Fic]] than by writing a decent version of [[So Bad It's Good|My]] [[Up to Eleven|Immortal?]]
* How would anyone know it was the real Tara who wrote the improved version? Everyone would think it was written by just another fake Tara.
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== The fake Taras aren't trying to steal her fame. ==
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