graculus

I find myself in something of a quandary - historically I have been a fan of AU fic (though in my defense, I would say that's more the 'what would happen if...' episode/canon rewrites rather than Jack-the-pirate and Daniel-the-cabin-boy kind, though I can get with some swashbuckling at times...) but in Harry Potter fandom?

What exactly is the point of non-magic AUs? Isn't the whole concept of being able to do magic = wizard so much entrenched in the HP universe that taking that away actually essentially removes a significant chunk of who they are? How much is stripping the characters of this the equivalent of disability fic on steroids?

And don't even get me started on the whole ice-skating thing... ;)

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khek.livejournal.com

Ice skating thing? The mind boggles.

(I'm picturing Harry and Snape as competing figure skaters in increasingly skimpy costumes...or maybe being the first male couples pair skating in Olympic competition..? So,am I close?)

I'm one of those people who can't read fanfic for books. It just doesn't do it for me, at all. Even when the books are made into movies, I just can't go that extra step. Weird, I know.

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graculus.livejournal.com

The only book fandoms where I have read a large amount have been HP (because I'm a Snape-fancying perv...) and Nero Wolfe, because there are a few folks who've written stuff in that fandom which is scarily good. Other than that, I haven't really been led astray all that much... well, not in comparison to other things, I'd say.