The Worldcon Committee has the right "to relocate a story into a more appropriate category if it feels that it is necessary," and in this case, even if HPMOR fans flooded the convention in order to tilt the popular vote, I'm pretty sure that the committee would move HPMOR to the Best Fan Writer category. Ordinarily they like to leave eligibility determinations to the voters, but the copyright issues here would be just too much. If a Harry Potter fic won a Hugo, JK Rowling (and her publishers) would be almost forced to take legal action in order to protect her copyright, and nobody wants to be faced with that kind of legal artillery.
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Date: 2012-09-04 11:00 pm (UTC)