[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: "Tainting the canon"; one author's philosophy of fanfic

[Horst or Rebecca J. Bohner]

> > Anyway, getting back to my point, my idea of an ideal HP fanfic is not
> > one that slavishly adheres to every point of JKR's writing and
> > plotting style, but one that makes its digressions and differences
> > from canon plausible.  If an author can do that, I'll follow them
> > anywhere.  Well, almost anywhere.

> Well, since my recommendations don't meet your criteria for your own
> "Fanfiction for People who Hate Fanfiction" list, can I ask which ones
> (if any) you've read that you *would* include on that list?  :--)

Two come immediately to mind:  Blaise's "A Second Chance" and Rosmerta's "A
Night on the Town".  They're both well-written, plausible stories with
strong characterization and dialogue, and they both upheld my suspension of
disbelief throughout the narrative.

> Obviously, as others have noted, any such list would be highly biased
> toward the subjective judgment of the compiler.

Oh, yes, definitely.  I've never pretended otherwise.  What I'm looking for
in fanfic is what I (and others with the same tastes as myself) am looking
for, that's all.  There are no set of rules saying "You have to write fanfic
this way and this way and this way or it's no good," and I'm not saying that
there are such rules, or that there should be.  I'd just like to see the
particular subset of fanfic that happens to interest me encouraged to
develop further, and made more easily accessible to those who are looking
for it.
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Rebecca J. Bohner
rebeccaj at pobox.com
http://home.golden.net/~rebeccaj