[ SECRET POST #2644 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2644 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

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)]

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.

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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)]

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)]

And the characterizations in those fics didn't really ~mesh~ with Harry and Draco's pre-OotP characters either, so...