I’m sorry if you’ve felt that I’m pressuring you to publishing HP fic soon. If I have, I’m stopping now. I should understand, also because my chaptered fic is so plot-oriented that only later on there were such parts – Remus’s letters to Harry, recounting some events in the 1970s – which I was able to publish separately on platforms where I wasn’t posting the novel as a WIP.
Oh, Snape’s memory in OotP – of course! I know I mustn’t ignore it, and I need a reasoning for Remus’s – and the other Marauders’ – behaviour (just as you said about Snape’s behaviour shown in the books from Harry’s perspective). I’ve regarded that scene as a single incident and not a proof that Remus was a meek bookworm who didn’t stop his mates from bullying – or wasn’t more active in stupid, even cruel pranks. If I remember correctly, Rowling has explained that Lupin’s weakness was wanting too much to be liked, and I’m afraid this (instead of remaining just one interpretation, albeit the author’s own) is regarded as a canon fact by those who listen to what the author says outside her work, and this has limited possible IC characterisations. Oh, I want to defend Lupin, because I hope you can like my Remus or at least find him interesting! I do not think we learned very much at all about him and the other Marauders in canon.
I definitely agree with you that pairing Lupin with Tonks came out of nowhere and didn’t make any sense. That’s why I’m happy I started writing about him so early. I’m also actually glad that Rowling limited herself to Harry’s perspective (with the exception of those opening scenes in GoF and HBP – boring, apart from the scene with Snape – and was there something in DH, too?) so that fanfic writers could do the extrapolating of what else goes on in the fascinating world. My novel is exclusively in Remus’s third-person voice, but he acts in a magical world of which we see a lot of such elements and dimensions that are not shown or understood from Harry’s perspective.
Oh, I love your interpretation of Snape and Lily’s relationship. That makes perfect sense for the characterisation and for the plot (in canon, too). Of course, Harry might well not possibly be able to understand the nature of Snape’s regret. I find such a story hugely appealing (and I can’t resist saying I’ll be happy to read it some day, written by you). (I lived the majority of my decades assuming I was heterosexual, as that was the expectation, and even had three children. When discovering fanfic, and a fiction writer in myself, I was attracted to slash but for a long time preferred writing it completely without sex scenes, and I learnt about asexuality – in general and almost immediately my own – only ten years ago. I’ve got my own big regrets! And perhaps got to too personal issues here.)
As for reading fanfic, I’ve noticed the same as you. I can’t help missing the old fanfics – missing, because, due to my hunger for interaction, I mainly read fic by writers who are still around, replying to comments, and possibly interested in reading my work, in turn. There was some kind of different spirit in writing when the canon was still open. (By the way, the Horcruxes is another element of the latter books that I dislike, along with the dehumanisation of enemies and dropping the themes of fighting for equality for other than simply human creatures.)
I’ve gradually noticed that after my eight-year hiatus, a year ago, I entered a changed fandom, and not only in new platforms. I still don’t know much about what the current Remus/Sirius fandom is like – and where – but I’ve seen interest in issues like how short Sirius is or not, and in plots (or rather just cute or sexy scenes) where the canon tragedy is all undone. But now this is turning into ranting! I do read AUs, and I’m open for almost anything, any pairing and characters, as long as the language is good, but I still can’t enjoy long, explicit sex scenes, particularly not het.
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Oh, Snape’s memory in OotP – of course! I know I mustn’t ignore it, and I need a reasoning for Remus’s – and the other Marauders’ – behaviour (just as you said about Snape’s behaviour shown in the books from Harry’s perspective). I’ve regarded that scene as a single incident and not a proof that Remus was a meek bookworm who didn’t stop his mates from bullying – or wasn’t more active in stupid, even cruel pranks. If I remember correctly, Rowling has explained that Lupin’s weakness was wanting too much to be liked, and I’m afraid this (instead of remaining just one interpretation, albeit the author’s own) is regarded as a canon fact by those who listen to what the author says outside her work, and this has limited possible IC characterisations. Oh, I want to defend Lupin, because I hope you can like my Remus or at least find him interesting! I do not think we learned very much at all about him and the other Marauders in canon.
I definitely agree with you that pairing Lupin with Tonks came out of nowhere and didn’t make any sense. That’s why I’m happy I started writing about him so early. I’m also actually glad that Rowling limited herself to Harry’s perspective (with the exception of those opening scenes in GoF and HBP – boring, apart from the scene with Snape – and was there something in DH, too?) so that fanfic writers could do the extrapolating of what else goes on in the fascinating world. My novel is exclusively in Remus’s third-person voice, but he acts in a magical world of which we see a lot of such elements and dimensions that are not shown or understood from Harry’s perspective.
Oh, I love your interpretation of Snape and Lily’s relationship. That makes perfect sense for the characterisation and for the plot (in canon, too). Of course, Harry might well not possibly be able to understand the nature of Snape’s regret. I find such a story hugely appealing (and I can’t resist saying I’ll be happy to read it some day, written by you). (I lived the majority of my decades assuming I was heterosexual, as that was the expectation, and even had three children. When discovering fanfic, and a fiction writer in myself, I was attracted to slash but for a long time preferred writing it completely without sex scenes, and I learnt about asexuality – in general and almost immediately my own – only ten years ago. I’ve got my own big regrets! And perhaps got to too personal issues here.)
As for reading fanfic, I’ve noticed the same as you. I can’t help missing the old fanfics – missing, because, due to my hunger for interaction, I mainly read fic by writers who are still around, replying to comments, and possibly interested in reading my work, in turn. There was some kind of different spirit in writing when the canon was still open. (By the way, the Horcruxes is another element of the latter books that I dislike, along with the dehumanisation of enemies and dropping the themes of fighting for equality for other than simply human creatures.)
I’ve gradually noticed that after my eight-year hiatus, a year ago, I entered a changed fandom, and not only in new platforms. I still don’t know much about what the current Remus/Sirius fandom is like – and where – but I’ve seen interest in issues like how short Sirius is or not, and in plots (or rather just cute or sexy scenes) where the canon tragedy is all undone. But now this is turning into ranting! I do read AUs, and I’m open for almost anything, any pairing and characters, as long as the language is good, but I still can’t enjoy long, explicit sex scenes, particularly not het.