I would like to think that the OTW could help, but sadly, I don't think in the real world they could do much. (Maybe now after the backlash against the backlash, when people are - for once - actually feeling supportive of FA, maybe. But not out of the blue.)
Like I mentioned above, many of the OTW's "contacts and structures" that would be helpful in this situation involve people who were already involved with FA - several of OTW's founding lights were also FA founding lights. If those contacts could have been helpful, FA wouldn't really have needed to go through OTW.
And the amount of backlash that occurred against OTW at the time, just because they *did* welcome those FA people into their structure in the beginning, makes me suspect that any attempt for OTW to give FA special treatment (even if it's the same thing they'd've done for any other archive in that situation) would have ended very, very badly for both organizations, and I expect they knew that.
Maybe that is just paranoia, but it's a paranoia that's shared by everybody who marinated in HP fandom at the time when FA was at its prime, and still keeps up with the lingering - and very much alive - occasional relapses into the fannish politics of the time. Of which this current kerfuffle is *very much* a result, given some of the names who were instrumental in spreading the original story around.
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Like I mentioned above, many of the OTW's "contacts and structures" that would be helpful in this situation involve people who were already involved with FA - several of OTW's founding lights were also FA founding lights. If those contacts could have been helpful, FA wouldn't really have needed to go through OTW.
And the amount of backlash that occurred against OTW at the time, just because they *did* welcome those FA people into their structure in the beginning, makes me suspect that any attempt for OTW to give FA special treatment (even if it's the same thing they'd've done for any other archive in that situation) would have ended very, very badly for both organizations, and I expect they knew that.
Maybe that is just paranoia, but it's a paranoia that's shared by everybody who marinated in HP fandom at the time when FA was at its prime, and still keeps up with the lingering - and very much alive - occasional relapses into the fannish politics of the time. Of which this current kerfuffle is *very much* a result, given some of the names who were instrumental in spreading the original story around.