Always great to meet another Patricia Highsmith fan--and yes, feel free to friend. Welcome!
I have wondered the same thing about H/D fic post-HBP. I don't think it's dying or anything, it's just interesting the way a book that was so H/D wasn't all about providing easy fanfic the way one might have thought. Why is that? Hard to say. Maybe it's just a case of everyone holding their breath. Draco does have his own story now, but the narrative really leaves him on the edge of something. You don't know which way he'll go now; the story just left him knowing what he wasn't, not yet what he was. (There's a hint in his wand going down, but even that you can do different ways.)
now you have the challenge of dealing with two main narratives instead of having Draco fill out a 'role' in relation to Harry. But picking up where JKR left off limits what you can do with either character in ways that didn't exist before, yet to avoid those limitations you often pass up the goldmine.
Quoting that part because it really sums it up for me!
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Date: 2006-09-19 12:53 am (UTC)I have wondered the same thing about H/D fic post-HBP. I don't think it's dying or anything, it's just interesting the way a book that was so H/D wasn't all about providing easy fanfic the way one might have thought. Why is that? Hard to say. Maybe it's just a case of everyone holding their breath. Draco does have his own story now, but the narrative really leaves him on the edge of something. You don't know which way he'll go now; the story just left him knowing what he wasn't, not yet what he was. (There's a hint in his wand going down, but even that you can do different ways.)
now you have the challenge of dealing with two main narratives instead of having Draco fill out a 'role' in relation to Harry. But picking up where JKR left off limits what you can do with either character in ways that didn't exist before, yet to avoid those limitations you often pass up the goldmine.
Quoting that part because it really sums it up for me!