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What I'd like to see ...
Dec. 20th, 2006 04:22 pm... in HP fanfiction, that is. I'm sure someone out there must have written stories like this, but they're proving rather hard to find.
(1) Stories in which senior figures who are usually Harry-focused in the books -- Dumbledore, Sirius, Remus, even Snape or McGonagall at a pinch -- interact one-to-one with either Ron or Hermione, or both together, without Harry there. And no, I don't mean Dumbledore/Ron stories or whatever (with or without use of Time-Turners to make them the same person) -- there's already a huge surplus of ludicrous shippy stories, I'm not really interested in seeing any more.
(2) Conversely ... I would be interested in seeing shippy stories which explore some of the canon (or at least canon-hinted) relationships that never seem to get ficced. Ones I'd like to see someone have a crack at in particular are Michael/Cho, Hagrid/Maxime, and yes, even Dobby/Winky. All would seem to have plenty of scope for interesting character dynamics, not to mention links back to the main series plot. I'll grant you that with the latter two both parties have a dialogue style that's tricky to get right, and with all of them a plug-in-the-names snog/shagfest would be deeply and profoundly crap, but you'd think they were worth a go.
(3) Year 7 stories in which Harry misses Ginny, but doesn't spend endless paragraphs angsting about how much he's missing her, or how he's realised that she's his Twu Wub and wants to marry her, instead just getting on with the job of disposing of Voldemort. Oh, and in which Ginny isn't happy about the breakup, but doesn't throw constant hissy fits about it, because you know she might just have been sincere when she said she knew darn well that he had to go and dispose of Voldemort, and approved of him for it.
This particular trope seems to be the post-HBP version of the Year 6 stories in which Harry spends endless paragraphs angsting how about much he's missing Sirius, and we all know how accurate a prediction that was.
And while we're here, how about stories where there isn't a tacit assumption from all concerned that Harry's going to be finished inside a year? Presumably he is, but he doesn't know that -- at the end of HBP, he was thinking it might take ten years.
Lyrics: The last one was Shakira's Objection (Tango) from 2001, spotted by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jellybellys, orchideous1, and sugarannie.
I suppose it's about time for a seasonal song, so try this classic, which topped VH1 polls as the UK's favourite Christmastime hit but never the charts:
(Her) You're a bum, you're a punk
(Him) You're an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
(Her) You scum bag, you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy Christmas your arse I pray God it's our last
(Both) The boys of the NYPD choir were singing 'Galway Bay'
And the bells were ringing out for Christmas Day (1980s)
(1) Stories in which senior figures who are usually Harry-focused in the books -- Dumbledore, Sirius, Remus, even Snape or McGonagall at a pinch -- interact one-to-one with either Ron or Hermione, or both together, without Harry there. And no, I don't mean Dumbledore/Ron stories or whatever (with or without use of Time-Turners to make them the same person) -- there's already a huge surplus of ludicrous shippy stories, I'm not really interested in seeing any more.
(2) Conversely ... I would be interested in seeing shippy stories which explore some of the canon (or at least canon-hinted) relationships that never seem to get ficced. Ones I'd like to see someone have a crack at in particular are Michael/Cho, Hagrid/Maxime, and yes, even Dobby/Winky. All would seem to have plenty of scope for interesting character dynamics, not to mention links back to the main series plot. I'll grant you that with the latter two both parties have a dialogue style that's tricky to get right, and with all of them a plug-in-the-names snog/shagfest would be deeply and profoundly crap, but you'd think they were worth a go.
(3) Year 7 stories in which Harry misses Ginny, but doesn't spend endless paragraphs angsting about how much he's missing her, or how he's realised that she's his Twu Wub and wants to marry her, instead just getting on with the job of disposing of Voldemort. Oh, and in which Ginny isn't happy about the breakup, but doesn't throw constant hissy fits about it, because you know she might just have been sincere when she said she knew darn well that he had to go and dispose of Voldemort, and approved of him for it.
This particular trope seems to be the post-HBP version of the Year 6 stories in which Harry spends endless paragraphs angsting how about much he's missing Sirius, and we all know how accurate a prediction that was.
And while we're here, how about stories where there isn't a tacit assumption from all concerned that Harry's going to be finished inside a year? Presumably he is, but he doesn't know that -- at the end of HBP, he was thinking it might take ten years.
Lyrics: The last one was Shakira's Objection (Tango) from 2001, spotted by
jellybellys, orchideous1, and sugarannie.I suppose it's about time for a seasonal song, so try this classic, which topped VH1 polls as the UK's favourite Christmastime hit but never the charts:
(Her) You're a bum, you're a punk
(Him) You're an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
(Her) You scum bag, you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy Christmas your arse I pray God it's our last
(Both) The boys of the NYPD choir were singing 'Galway Bay'
And the bells were ringing out for Christmas Day (1980s)
