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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I'm pretty much anti AU, because I'm here to see the characters as the characters, in their milieu, not turned into someone whose only similarity is the name, in a place that has nothing in common with their canonical place. So I skip AUs. I skip nonmagical HP AUs even more. Like you, I don't see the point, except to get a built-in audience for what's essentially original fic.