Might be totally wrong since I'm imagining the insides of other people's heads, but... it seems to me that its a view the characters as actors. That they exist outside the limitations of the text (not just its implications about morality and whatever, but its events as well). That JKR has forced them to act out a play that doesn't use them to their full potential. The OOCness allows that potential to become reality.
Like another step down the path that allows someone to write/read fanfic--you have to be able to divorce the characters and the universe from the author's vision and authority, but when have you gone "too far?"
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Date: 2005-01-05 06:04 am (UTC)Might be totally wrong since I'm imagining the insides of other people's heads, but... it seems to me that its a view the characters as actors. That they exist outside the limitations of the text (not just its implications about morality and whatever, but its events as well). That JKR has forced them to act out a play that doesn't use them to their full potential. The OOCness allows that potential to become reality.
Like another step down the path that allows someone to write/read fanfic--you have to be able to divorce the characters and the universe from the author's vision and authority, but when have you gone "too far?"