I've had a few experiences on stalking and imposting, not in the Harry Potter fandom, but in the pixel/dollz community. Luckily enough just by very young girls and not very dangerous, yet freaky and frustrating. Because of my Dollz website (http://www.over-the-moon.org/dollz) there have been quite a few people who pretended to be me. Some people left nasty guestbook messages out of my name. That was bothering me greatly because some of the girls who got messages from "me" in their guestbook were very hurt. They used to think I was a nice person. Well there ya go.

I've seen profiles of MSN names completely based of information about me, my email address, website address, my name, age etc. I've seen messages on forums of people pretending to be me. I'm lucky to have a few friends around and usually they don't get away with it, because my friends recognize it's not me because of how the person types the messages or how they behave.

Also, one time there was a girl who copied most of my LJ interests into her own interests list, while I KNOW that she didn't know about some of those interests. Ha ha. It was transparent. Later it appeared she liked to be me, or close enough, be like me. Freaky!!

And thanks for making this post. (I'm here via QuickQuotes btw.) It makes one think. I will reconsider every item on my user info page.