saying, but harry is too much of a -hero- for that is really putting him on too much of a pedestal, i feel. i dunno if canon!harry would. i mean, all we know about canon!harry at this point, mind you, is that he likes cho chang-- unavailable, beautiful, untouchable, another seeker, good flier. not much else. so at least he doesn't go for the safe and easy, since he could've fallen for ginny third year and they could've been a couple by fourth, in another universe.
also, fanfic diverges from canon characterization by necessity-- simply because it can't -be- canon, and people write fanfic to explore -beyond- canon. you know? you simply want to see how certain things would play out-- things that may or may not be possible in canon. i don't think it necessarily implies a perversity that has no regard for characterization. it's just that people see the same characters in really different ways-- you know? you've noticed, i'm sure ^^
so what's possible and "in-character" to one person, is wildly insane to another.
i would like to think that harry could -become- the kind of person who could fall for draco-- i dunno why, and it's certainly not because he -forgets- his taunting and his prejudices and so on. sometimes things just -overwhelm- past history-- but they don't erase it. i'd like to think draco secretly wants harry and taunts him anyway, because he's mean and pathetic and silly and well-- read silvia's draco and you know what i think, heh. well, that and miss breed's draco. *swoons*
i don't know if i think it's -in- canon that way. that canon!draco is like that. it's just that he could conceivably be -read- as that. and that's enough for me. because i just love the issues explored in h/d fics more than any other sort of issues commonly explored with any other pairing. i'm sure there are a number of h/s shippers who'd say the same, just as there are a number who just want to slash snape with harry because it's hot-- same for h/d. heh. but yes. i love that sense of impossibility, and i like fics which have it-- which have the awareness of the wrongness and the harshness that h/d implies, rather than just saying that draco is really a kitten and harry will just forgive. because i don't think harry would forgive for a good long while, if ever, and draco most certainly is an evil brat-- but i think he may have ...er... other qualities as well~:)
love isn't about straightforward forgiveness, anyway. it's more like-- the ability to accept. i dunno. it's weird that way ><;;
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Date: 2003-04-03 07:45 pm (UTC)also, fanfic diverges from canon characterization by necessity-- simply because it can't -be- canon, and people write fanfic to explore -beyond- canon. you know? you simply want to see how certain things would play out-- things that may or may not be possible in canon. i don't think it necessarily implies a perversity that has no regard for characterization. it's just that people see the same characters in really different ways-- you know? you've noticed, i'm sure ^^
so what's possible and "in-character" to one person, is wildly insane to another.
i would like to think that harry could -become- the kind of person who could fall for draco-- i dunno why, and it's certainly not because he -forgets- his taunting and his prejudices and so on. sometimes things just -overwhelm- past history-- but they don't erase it. i'd like to think draco secretly wants harry and taunts him anyway, because he's mean and pathetic and silly and well-- read silvia's draco and you know what i think, heh. well, that and miss breed's draco. *swoons*
i don't know if i think it's -in- canon that way. that canon!draco is like that. it's just that he could conceivably be -read- as that. and that's enough for me. because i just love the issues explored in h/d fics more than any other sort of issues commonly explored with any other pairing.
i'm sure there are a number of h/s shippers who'd say the same, just as there are a number who just want to slash snape with harry because it's hot-- same for h/d. heh. but yes. i love that sense of impossibility, and i like fics which have it-- which have the awareness of the wrongness and the harshness that h/d implies, rather than just saying that draco is really a kitten and harry will just forgive. because i don't think harry would forgive for a good long while, if ever, and draco most certainly is an evil brat-- but i think he may have ...er... other qualities as well~:)
love isn't about straightforward forgiveness, anyway. it's more like-- the ability to accept. i dunno. it's weird that way ><;;