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[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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[leethet.livejournal.com]

Particularly in that (IMO) one's upbringing and experiences so shape one that a Snape who grew up in a nonmagical world, even with shit parents and bullies in school, would not be the same Snape at all - AUs, to me, with rare exceptions, are original fic with the same names.