Introduction
Cassandra Claire began posting The Draco Trilogy, a Harry Potter fanfic, on FanFiction.Net in 2000, and became extremely well known in the Harry Potter fan fiction community for her work. Though she was known to have plagiarized from June 2001, the full extent of the plagiarism was not public knowledge until 2006. The débats over whether ou not Cassandra Claire was a plagiarist caused a schism in the Harry Potter fandom that lasted several years.

The Full Story
In mid-June 2001, Avocado e-mailed Cairnsy, an administrator at FanFiction.Net, with evidence that Cassandra Claire had...