I was leitura someone's fã fiction when i came across something that annoyed me. It was also a little funny how ignorant people can be.

Of course, they should check their information first, there are enough sites like the HP Lexicon or the HP Wiki, Mugglenet, or even the Wikipedia pages themselves, to provide information.

As a fanfic writer myself, I make the effort whenever I have the slightiest doubt.

However, like Bri said, in some places, "Ginny" is short for "Virginia". No wonder this had been their first reflex. You may still write a review to point out the mistake - in a courteous fashion, of course.

Besides, there are worse mistakes in my opinion : like misspelling characters' names, for example, while the names are well-known, and/or omitting capitals for proper names.

Plus the fanfic writers that write badly, despising punctuation and grammar and spelling alike, mistreating the language (which often is their mother tongue...), all these grate on my nerves, much mais than a mere error on a name like the one you described (which is annoying as writers are supposed to know their subject). Anybody, including me, can make mistakes and despite careful attention, some of these mistakes escape our corrections. But some "writers" are either immature or lazy (or both) to bother checking this out, alas. They don't even realize they need a thorough beta-reading, whatever the language they use. Well, just my opinion as a writer.

Depending on when the fic was written, it may not have been an ignorant mistake. We actually don't find out until later in the series (I want to say book five?) that 'Ginny' is short for 'Ginevera.' And some places 'Ginny' is short for 'Virginia.' So, if they wrote the fic before the information was given, and live in a place where Ginny/Virginia is mais common than Ginny/Ginevera, then it wouldn't be an ignorant mistake at all.

If you are going to wright a fã fic, you should have the correct information, shouldn't you?
Depends on the type of fic you're writing, generally. I mean, yes, you should get the characters name right (if the information is out there at the time the fic was published), but some "correct" information (like, Dumbledore dying or Lupin being straight) is mais than allowed to be stretched, skewed, or just taken out for the fanfiction to work.

ppl r soooooo ignorant but what really bugs me is that ppl amor to ship poor hermione with harry draco snape and lupin why cant they stick to the right info of ron and hermione being together??? but this mistake of callling ginny virginia is an non permissible :(

Yes you should have the write info or ells people will get confused.

Yeah, beggs the crap out of me too. At least get the names right. I was leitura one where they called Harry, Jerry? I mean seriously, he's the fricking main character!

lmfao are you sure you dident miss understand what they were trying to say beacuse thats really messed up lmfao