"antithetical" Fanfic

Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) <catlady@wicca.net> catlady at wicca.net
Tue Jan 14 06:20:19 UTC 2003


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Haggridd 
<jkusalavagemd at y...>" <jkusalavagemd at y...> wrote:

> Counter-question #1:  If you write fiction that is so antithetical
> to the stories as written by the author, why do you want to write 
> "fan" fiction in the first place? Write about Jim and Joe and 
> Dilbert and Bobby Sue instead.

In general, the writer of said fanfic BELIEVES that it is NOT 
antithetical to the intention of the author. I mean, I believe that 
even a writer who portrays Ginny as a *total* slut really believes 
that Ginny really *is* like that, or will be in fifth or sixth year 
or whenever the story is set. 

Some fanfics are written to change the Potterverse *just* a *little* 
for the sake of rescuing a beloved character. Tons of women write 
romances for Severus, Remus, or Sirius for the same reason that 
they, those same women, would try to fix them, those hot but lonely 
blokes, up with a girl(boy)friend if we knew them in real life rather 
than in literature. This is also the reason we try to make Draco join 
the good side ... 






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