FF/SHIP: Authorial Intent, Canonical Plausibility, Draco/Hermione

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No: HPFGUIDX 39107

My two knuts on canonical plausibility of fanfics:

It's been stated on this list that JKR's characters are painted by 
very broad strokes of paintbrush.  Some of them being complex, other 
flat, they all are rather schematically outlined, so to speak.  I 
think, this makes HP characters a very good fanfiction fodder and 
(along with the immense popoularity of the books) explains the huge 
amount of HP fanfiction around.  Fanfic authors don't have any 
trouble in filling a canon character's frame with personality 
aspects, which would make their plots and their pairings work.
We can easily imagine both an Evilll!Draco and Redeemed!Draco, or, 
say, a Tortured_Hero! Snape and Sadistic!Snape; and I am sure, the 
well-written fics, featuring these character variants, are often 
convincing.

Ana