disagreeing != disregarding, and why agenda!wank needs to DIE.

Am I the only one that sort of... laughs when I see posts about how someone can't like a character anymore after they acted in a way they disapproved of or wouldn't have been expected in canon? Or weren't paid enough attention to? Or were made out to be less than sympathetic? Or were too dumb, slow, unimportant, ugly, pretty, morally ambiguous, good/evil, hormonal, asexual, immature or cranky? Because god knows, if someone's hard to like all of a sudden as a teenager, they're doomed, doomed for life. Hello, my name is Reena, and I was doomed to hell and back when I was at the tender age of 13. Possibly earlier. I was a bitch at that age, lemme tell ya. Ooh yeah. They had to put up quarantine signs on me. Yep.

    No, I lie-- I don't laugh, I cringe and want to escape, escape far, far away to a land where most people can separate personal bias (like, 'oh noes, I didn't want character X to die/become a bitch/start shagging sheep, ahhhh!!1') and some sort of sane objective evaluation of a story like 'oh, I see, character X didn't have this sort of role in this scenario but he had -this- role and I can see how that works into this theme and this subplot, even though I feel it wasn't tied in well with his previous behavior patterns'. I just boggle, because it's like people don't even notice a subplot if they don't want to acknowledge it or it's not obviously part of a piss-point they're making (even though the explanation-- were one to look for that sort of thing-- often lies just beyond the things one notices in one's frantic sweep of Things That Sucked).

I don't even want to bring up anything specific (say, Hermione, Ron, R/Hr, H/G, Ginny, Snape, lessee who else can we wank today) 'cause then people will jump on me and ignore my general point. (And that's my point, anyway.) Actually, that's what bothers me the most-- it's not people's opinions diverging from mine or whatever (naturally they would), but the way so many people in HP fandom, at least, express those opinions-- by basically steamrolling over anything in their way. I don't even know where to start with the whole 'well, this is how I thought the canon was, and now it's different in a way that doesn't satisfy my agenda for character/pairing X, therefore it sucks'. I don't even know what to say. 'Wake up and smell the coffee!!' doesn't really cover it. What can I say?

( ...unsurprisingly, this degenerated into a rant. )

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EDIT - With the caveat that this is mpreg (...yeah), that it's an AU that basically rewrites canon (though it slashifies it and enriches it believably in equal parts), and with the additional caveat that I could only skim certain parts because of the above, I have to say I've finally found a post-HBP H/D fic I could like, and it's `Genesis' by akahannah. Mostly, I lovelove the Harry characterization. It's got that all-important selling point of him not being suddenly reasonable (quite the opposite... oh, I think I'm going to cry), and Draco being both sympathetic and a little prick (see! see!) and. Yeah. ♥
    And now, for somebody to do all this and with no mpreg, canon-rewriting or... yeah, that's pretty much it....

...Though, um, I liked this GW 1x2 fic way more than I'd liked any H/D fic in ages... and ages....