(My family seems to have a talent for getting out of sentences anyways. My mom just got out of like three years of prison, and just has to do a few hundred hours of service. I hope I inherited this talent.)
*imagines being in court for something like this...*
That'd be so interesting. You'd be there. I'd be there (because I'm not letting you take the blame for everything, dammit. >.>). Legally, both of our families would have to be there. And Katy. Genn'd probably be there too.
XD
I know it certainly sounds miserable. I mean, me, you, both of our families, the mods, Hachette people, Ning people, all in the SAME room. Wow. Just... wow.
*wince* Yeah, it'd definitely make the news. Hopefully the media'd take our side. They love innocent little kids. We could totally win them over, two teenage girls up against a pack of bitchy middle-aged women.... the media'd like us, at least.
Not the kind of publicity Hachette'd want... but they deserve it, after publishing such garbage. TFW. Twilight. W&W. Yeah, they asked for it.
Psh, we'd just need a good story, too. How it helped balance life. If you got Miles to go with you or something, get that angle for the press, we'd seem like harmless, innocent kids. We'd so win them. Plus all Hachette would have would be 'I can't believe. . . ' we'd have our dazzling personalities, sob stories, etc. Can you define golden, better?
Hachette wants to appeal to teens. Having this lawsuit happen, publicly, would be horrible for them. If the head rep has two brain cells that touch they'll just buy out the mods, do anything to keep it from happening.
Meh, the only way you could make it seem really bad to the teens would be with a good sob story. Preferably romantic, to get the teen girls. I mean. . . just regular publicity, they'd be able to easily handle that with Twilight and all they'd turn it to something good/it wouldn't effect anything too much. They could make us look like the nut cases, which. . . doesn't do anything good for either side, but possibly let more kids enter the fandom feeling their child would be fine there.
Publicity. The reason why it'd be kept low(er) key, and the only damage that could at all be done to Hachette. and because it's what the media/general public reacts to.
. . . unless you have another reason to bring it in. :D