[ SECRET POST #4868 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4868 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Have them celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving if you want. Doesn't matter a damn to me.

[(Anonymous)]

Why the fuck would British people celebrate Canadian thanksgiving

[(Anonymous)]

Because they felt like it

[(Anonymous)]

We don't celebrate the thanksgiving holidays of other countries.

[(Anonymous)]

You could if you wanted to

[(Anonymous)]

But we don't want to.

It has no meaning to us. It's not important to us.

[(Anonymous)]

But the characters of Harry Potter could want to, if the person writing the fanfiction in question wanted them to want to

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT I'll take 'doesn't understand how to write' for 200.

Unless I missed something, fic is about writing the characters from canon and not a random series of self-inserts who are just given those characters' names.

[(Anonymous)]

Fanfiction is whatever you want it to be.

[(Anonymous)]

What's the point if you're not at least trying to write a semblance of the characters? Fanfic doesn't have to be perfect but most fanfic writers are at least trying.

As someone said below, you can write this sure but most people are going to think you're a fucking moron .

[(Anonymous)]

It'd have to be more than "I want the characters to do X." If you decide you want British characters to want to do something outside their culture, you must find a motivation for it. Hermione could be researching holiday customs in other cultures and has a moment with Harry and Ron where she keeps bothering them with "The ancient Philistines did..." and "The Aztec people celebrated..." and "Even now, the Dutch continue..." until they're bored out of their skulls and are tired of hearing her talk about the subject. Then she drops the US custom of Thanksgiving, where you eat turkey till you nearly burst and watch football all day. I'd imagine THAT would pique their interest!

[(Anonymous)]

Until they realise it's not actually football, it's pansy rugby with too many pauses and not enough action >:P

[(Anonymous)]

Speak for yourself, tbh. We absolutely love the novelty of American Thanksgiving and celebrate it because it's funny and/or delicious. Nothing wrong with celebrating stuff that doesn't "belong" to you.

Unless you're going to call out all Americans that celebrate Cinco de Mayo? All Japanese that celebrate Christmas? Hell, I have friends in Mexico that celebrate the American 4th of July because it's another excuse to set off fireworks. It's really no big deal.

[(Anonymous)]

TBF Cinco de Mayo is kind of... unfortunate but that's mostly because of the specific relationship between the USA and Mexico and other things specific to the holiday

The Japanese Christmas example I agree with, as well as the broader point

[(Anonymous)]

What I find funny about Cinco de Mayo is that it is apparently more widely celebrated in USA than in Mexico.

[(Anonymous)]

SA - Not to mention celebrated completely differently too. At this point it's mostly two different events which just happen to share a name.

[(Anonymous)]

Of American Thanksgiving.

I mean. Really.

[greghousesgf]

I wanna see a Canadian wizard world now

[(Anonymous)]

At one point I wanted to write a Harry Potter fic with Canadian exchange students.
"Tell Professor Sprout to get the extra rooms ready. For some reason the Canadians are always sorted into Hufflepuff. Except for that Harper kid no one likes to talk about."

And one of them has a Canada goose patronus that is the scariest thing anyone has ever seen.

[greghousesgf]

and there needs to be some sort of Rush reference

[(Anonymous)]

There is more contact (and fighting) in Canadian Quidditch.

[greghousesgf]

and Red Green has magic duct tape!

[(Anonymous)]

Love it, you should write it!

[(Anonymous)]

"Except for that Harper kid no one likes to talk about."

Pfft. Nailed it.