Thinking about Harry/Snape in particular (of all things), it just struck me as... funny to judge & dismiss a pairing based on the idea of "it would never happen" due to antipathy (not just in canon, but in general), especially if one supposes Harry/Draco could happen or Remus/Snape could happen. Sometimes I don't see why a certain pairing would make sense 'cause the two characters just don't have anything I can imagine them saying to each other at all past party-talk (like, uh, Harry/Lavender to be really random), but the anti-H/S spiel goes down another track, right.
I've never been the sort of person who thought -any- two given characters could be made to hit it off together believably (and in fact I think that's total hogwash), 'cause from personal experience I know I just don't like a lot of people (one could say most people) 'that way'. I just don't. There are plenty of people I guarantee you that I'd never sleep with in a gazillion years no matter -what- happened. Say, my uncle. I would so never touch my uncle with a trillion foot pole, y'know? I don't care what you do in a fanfic to 'justify' it, he's a really ugly, greasy, loud, fat, hairy & obnoxious old man! And we have nothing in common! No way would I ever touch my uncle! You couldn't pay me enough! Seriously! A donkey would almost be better, because at least I wouldn't know what the donkey was saying!
And you could say, "well, Harry feels the same way about Snape" (that is, Snape is greasy, stinky & annoying just like my uncle, except not as fat). Except... well, see... I don't have all these issues and backstory with my uncle; if you wrote RPF about it, there's no pay-off, really-- no meaty underbelly. In fic, I think it's perfectly acceptable to write about how two people don't fit, and how they're horrible to each other and how they make each other miserable-- if you can make their issues together interesting and telling about their characters.
I think the fallacy people are operating under is the assumption that writing (or shipping) a pairing means you'll believe it'll be successful in the long-term.
( For some reason, this sets me off ranting.... )
I've never been the sort of person who thought -any- two given characters could be made to hit it off together believably (and in fact I think that's total hogwash), 'cause from personal experience I know I just don't like a lot of people (one could say most people) 'that way'. I just don't. There are plenty of people I guarantee you that I'd never sleep with in a gazillion years no matter -what- happened. Say, my uncle. I would so never touch my uncle with a trillion foot pole, y'know? I don't care what you do in a fanfic to 'justify' it, he's a really ugly, greasy, loud, fat, hairy & obnoxious old man! And we have nothing in common! No way would I ever touch my uncle! You couldn't pay me enough! Seriously! A donkey would almost be better, because at least I wouldn't know what the donkey was saying!
And you could say, "well, Harry feels the same way about Snape" (that is, Snape is greasy, stinky & annoying just like my uncle, except not as fat). Except... well, see... I don't have all these issues and backstory with my uncle; if you wrote RPF about it, there's no pay-off, really-- no meaty underbelly. In fic, I think it's perfectly acceptable to write about how two people don't fit, and how they're horrible to each other and how they make each other miserable-- if you can make their issues together interesting and telling about their characters.
I think the fallacy people are operating under is the assumption that writing (or shipping) a pairing means you'll believe it'll be successful in the long-term.
( For some reason, this sets me off ranting.... )
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