And yet, it's not like -I'm- there telling fandom what the problems are. I find that there's mostly something of a consensus, among any but the most hardcore faithful H/D shippers who really do think it's enough to plop them together and poof! Actually, the people who -give up- on reading/writing H/D often do it for similar reasons, and -those- are the reasons-- like hownovel said (http://www.livejournal.com/users/reenka/281431.html?thread=3627351#t3627351), mostly. I don't think I'm pushing my own agenda alone with this, y'know? The things that make me go WTF?! aren't even types of characterizations so much as their displacement in context-- as in, all the rest of the characters and/or situations don't -work- or make sense with this one, like-- smooth-as-ice!Draco makes Harry be an idiot, for instance. So then when the fic goes on and has it all make sense-- when it still really doesn't-- I always notice because it's not just about OOCness, it's like -all of reality- sort of... collapses. And it's worse because a lot of times, in retrospect, only -Ron- notices -.-;;
To show you what I mean-- have you ever read Durendal's classic How Harry Potter Got His Groove Back series...? That's a great example of how freaky sudden H/D is, where Harry wakes up and thinks Draco's hawt and Draco's like, WTF?? Did someone switch universes on me when I wasn't looking?! Heh. That's what I mean, anyway.
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Date: 2005-11-10 10:29 pm (UTC)To show you what I mean-- have you ever read Durendal's classic How Harry Potter Got His Groove Back series...? That's a great example of how freaky sudden H/D is, where Harry wakes up and thinks Draco's hawt and Draco's like, WTF?? Did someone switch universes on me when I wasn't looking?! Heh. That's what I mean, anyway.