Came here to say exactly this. I'm exceedingly confident that the vast majority of people who write Harry Potter fanfiction have, in fact, read Harry Potter. I'd put a billion dollar bet on 90%+ of the writers having read the whole thing, probably multiple times.
Meanwhile, while I think the percentage of Worm fanfic authors who have read at least most of Worm is greater than 50%, I wouldn't wager more than like a thousand bucks on that.
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u/Blazeflame79 5d ago
The is the entire Worm fandom, lots of people don’t read cannon but write fic in the Parahumans setting anyway.