[ SECRET POST #481 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #481 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Uhhh, lots of people are submitting secrets to the actual secret posts/the suggestions post and not the submissions post -- the submission post is → here ←, make sure you're posting them in the right place!

Secrets Left to Post: 06 pages, 127 secrets from Secret Submission Post #069.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 2 3 4 5 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - yes, it was totally personal ], [ 1 2 3 - too big ], [ 1 - uh, fairly sure you worded this one wrong ], [ 1 - personal attack ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[beckaandzac.livejournal.com]

Isn't fandom supposed to be all about the unrealized potential of canon characters though? Giving them a life they never got to have in canon? Sirius is most notable in Harry's (our PoV character) life as an absence, and that absence may affect us in the way it affects Harry, and we want to fill it in, the way that Harry wants to find every possible scrap of information about his parents' past. It's the fact that they're not there that makes us want more. I just don't see anything wrong with that, or even anything terribly unusual.

And this total stranger thought your ramble was interesting. :)

[ether-bunny.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't find it particularly unusual, either! I find it slightly annoying because I feel people put so much stock in fandom representations of a character who, in my mind, isn't nearly so nice in canon. What I meant was that while JKR cried for Sirius' death, she has more intimate knowledge and understanding of the character than the readers ever do, and it was the first "real" death in the series, as well, so would have been a milestone for her.

But as for the audience's reception of it, I don't think that Sirius' death, as far as loss of character, warranted a particularly intense level of grief as opposed to that of any other characters, if that makes sense. The only notable thing was that it was the first death. My feelings are that, without fandom, the reaction to Sirius' death would not have been nearly so intense, you know what I mean? Fandom made people feel more for the character, and if someone wasn't actively involved in the more Sirius-worshipping side of fandom, I think their general reaction to his death would have been less emotional and they might have found the fandom's response more shocking/irritating.