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[fpb]

The trouble with most Snape fics is that they are not about Snape, but about Alan Rickman. And they are all by straight women.

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[rfachir.livejournal.com]

We don't change what we love - a lot of the Potterverse is dull. We kept what we love (the story where we are the hero(ine)), and told that in fanfiction. JK Rowling didn't tell her story for us, we're just fixing things we know are true.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I could not disagree more. And incidentally, my own fanfics always work hard to keep within canon.

[rfachir.livejournal.com]

No you haven't - you've made Draco gay, and made Ginny into a version of your angellic heroine. It's fanfic - you're allowed to improve the original story. It's up to the readers to let you know if you oversteped and the original story is lost. Meanwhile, you put your passion into bringing your own world to life. JKR put her passion into bringing her world to life. Her world is pretty miserable - eleven year olds are left alone (by adults with full knowledge of the risks) to fight evil. That's not my world. I'm not passionate about it. I like the old "no one is evil from the inside" view which makes an eleven-year-old unreliable narrator's descpition of Snape very open to to interpretation.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

My deepest apologies for the previous answer, which I have deleted. The only excuse for that stunning outburst of stupidity was that I am not feeling particularly well today.