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

[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.)