Life with a fanfic pusher

[stgulik]

My darling groom of 23 years supports my hobby of HP fan fiction, likes to hear all about it, likes to debate the finer points of an author's plot as I describe it, but has politely refused to read any fanfic himself.

"It's obviously interesting to you," he says, "but I like the series so much, I don't want to read about things that could never have happened in the original story line." Born for canon fic, this boy is.

But tonight I finally found a work that seems to have what he's looking for - a solid, T-rated adventure story with no AU and no implausable ships. He got so interested, I signed him up and put the story on his new Alerts page. He's sprinting through it even as I write.

See ... it allllll starts with one story. Soon, he will become hooked like the rest of us ...

Comments

[stgulik.livejournal.com]

I disagree. In the book, it says Snape died, but there's room for interpretation the way it was written. He might have been only unconscious when Harry left him, and able to be rescued at the last minute. (Very slight room, I will grant you, but enough for entertainment purposes.) If he'd been buried in a later chapter or something, then later adventures would indeed be AU.

[arcanetrivia]

It's certainly canon-compatible if you want to get into details (and I do!), "enough for entertainment purposes" as you put it. Don't get me wrong on this either; in my personal world Snape survived too. No body, no portrait, all that jazz. But I don't think it's what we're meant to conclude, and I think many/most people consider "Snape survives" to be AU in spirit if maybe not in letter.

[stgulik.livejournal.com]

I'm with ya. There's a real difference between "canon-compatible" and "canon-specific." Now that I know my groom's tolerance for interpretation, it will be that much easier to corrupt him. :D

[arcanetrivia]

mmmm, corruption....

(My husband got started with "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", which, man, talk about AU *chuckles* but I don't know if it's actually going to lead to anything else.)