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** Daphne Greengrass also gets a lot of attention when authors need a sympathetic Slytherin girl, as she's rarely if ever mentioned in the same negative light as Draco or Pansy in the books. Typically she's said to come from a neutral wizarding family or otherwise isn't connected with the rest of her house, possessing the same traits that Slytherins are known for but without invoking [[Ambition Is Evil]].

** Really, just take any throwaway name mentioned in the series and you'll find at least a few dozen fanfics starring that character.

** [[Chris Columbus]] giving his daughter Eleanor [[The Cameo]] by casting her as Susan Bones in the [[Harry Potter (Film)|first two movies]] might almost count as an "official" version of this. After all, Susan was a background role with no lines, so what better place would there be for the American director to slip his daughter in without effecting the all-British cast requirement? Well, true to form, Susan ended up getting developed into more than just a throwaway name in the books written after the first two movies came out. The latter films handled this by simply not including her plotline, which they likely would have done anyway considering [[~~Door Stopper~~|the length of the latter books]]. In any case, if they had really wanted to include her in ''Phoenix'' or ''Prince'' with actual lines, they presumably would have just invoked [[The Other Darrin]].

** [[Chris Columbus]] giving his daughter Eleanor [[The Cameo]] by casting her as Susan Bones in the [[Harry Potter (Film)|first two movies]] might almost count as an "official" version of this. After all, Susan was a background role with no lines, so what better place would there be for the American director to slip his daughter in without effecting the all-British cast requirement? Well, true to form, Susan ended up getting developed into more than just a throwaway name in the books written after the first two movies came out. The latter films handled this by simply not including her plotline, which they likely would have done anyway considering [[Doorstopper|the length of the latter books]]. In any case, if they had really wanted to include her in ''Phoenix'' or ''Prince'' with actual lines, they presumably would have just invoked [[The Other Darrin]].

** Back before Ginny had much of a canonically defined personality, she was a frequent target of this.

** Fanfic writers are also fond of writing about the main characters' kids' school days, when they don't just [[Broken Base|ignore the epilogue entirely.]]