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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-03-30 03:34 pm
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[personal profile] fingalsanteater 2014-03-31 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
No, we read the same books. We just like the enemies to friends to lovers trope and H/D is great pairing for that.

(Anonymous) 2014-03-31 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
Yep. I like the thought of how it would progress from enemies and how they would develop to get to the in love point.

(Anonymous) 2014-03-31 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
*We just like the enimies to friends to lovers trope and we're too lazy to write original fiction so we butcher the characters of Harry and Draco.

(Anonymous) 2014-03-31 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
My point exactly. Thank you.

(Anonymous) 2014-03-31 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
So what? People writing out of character fanfiction doesn't have an impact on the books or the movies. You don't have to read it if you don't want to. I'm not a Harry Potter fan or a fan of this ship but I think complaints like this are ridiculous. Who cares if a bunch of people like ooc fanfiction? Does it hurt you, personally? Does it affect the closed canon? Nope? Why insult them then?

(Anonymous) 2014-04-04 08:18 am (UTC)(link)
This is so funny considering how many of us are actually published writers and professional editors.
It is so obvious you're not in our fandom; and not just because you're trying to insult us in a form that is dedicated to doing that very thing to all works despite the medium.

(Anonymous) 2014-03-31 02:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, this, but also H/D has been a popular pairing for ~15 years now. That's pre-GoF, and Harry's and Draco's canonical characterizations, the books' tone, and what we'd seen of the setting and worldbuilding in general were all quite different then. I think a lot of the people criticizing H/D as OOC are expecting the fanfic characterizations to reflect where the HP series ended, even though a lot of H/D fic was written long before the final volumes came out.

And even more recently written fics tend to draw upon those earlier H/D works as well as upon canon and/or to reject later bits of canon that they disagree with--EWE is fairly ubiquitous, but some writers take it further than that--so the characterizations are rather different than they would be if someone tackled the pairing without reference to any of that fannish history. Personally, as a person who first started shipping H/D in 1999 and who didn't really care for books 6 and 7, this suits me just fine.

(Anonymous) 2014-03-31 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
lol that shit was OOC back then too. nothing wrong with shipping OOC bullshit, but trying to rationalize that H/D used to be in character is ridiculous.

(Anonymous) 2014-03-31 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
SA

A handful of examples of what I'm talking about, for the benefit of anyone who's curious and wasn't in HP fandom over a decade ago:

Calico & julad - "Lustre" http://archiveofourown.org/works/237684

FayJay - "Invisible to See" http://archiveofourown.org/works/4724

mad_martha - "The Lodger" http://archiveofourown.org/works/218544

Resonant - "Transfigurations" http://archiveofourown.org/works/59676

SilviaKundera - "Butter and Pigtails" http://archiveofourown.org/works/128728

The characterizations don't entirely mesh with the end-of-series characterizations, but I think if you read these fics and consciously put yourself in the mindframe of a pre-OotP reader, you'll be able to see how the authors got where they did from there.

(Anonymous) 2014-03-31 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
lol Transfigurations was the fic that pushed me into H/D is fucking bullshit camp 11 or so years ago when I attempted to read that garbage.

(Anonymous) 2014-03-31 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
And the characterizations in those fics didn't really ~mesh~ with Harry and Draco's pre-OotP characters either, so...
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