It's usually put forward by Snape fans who want to make him look nicer, but IMO it makes him far less pleasant than if he actually likes Draco, no matter how much of a prat Draco is.
I agree-it's like people who think it makes Draco nicer to have him treat the other Slytherins like dirt. Um, no.
Either I don't really understand what you mean here, or I don't really see this. I read a lot of H/S, but I don't really see any of it as recreating the scenes (except in the sense of Harry and Snape needing to resume Occlumency lessons, but I don't think that's what you mean).
I don't mean recreating the scenes, but more like recreating the intensity and emotions that are present in canon-often as a starting point to move into something else. Even if you don't write the part that's canon. So, like, with H/S it seems like it's the intensity of the canon scenes that gives birth to the slash. So like with Sirius and Remus I feel like the heart of the ship is probably the relationship they have in their later life-that's the basis upon which people write the variation, if that makes sense.
The two don't seem all that interested in each other, but as H/H shippers point out (sometimes very effectively), these two have a good basis for future romance, perhaps much more so than either R/H or H/G.
Yes, I think that's the kind of evidence (the B type) that seems to fall into a grey area for me--as you said, you can pretty much find evidence for anything that way. And that's great for slash and het because you're looking for stuff for the story. But for me, when I see somebody say there's evidence I feel like that means it's something that's, like, happening in the story already. If it's just that they'd make an interesting couple or a good couple that doesn't seem like evidence to me since lots of people could be a good couple in theory and yet never have any interest in each other.
I guess that's what it sometimes happens when people pit ships against each other. I mean, when people argue that H/Hr is better than R/Hr, or one Harry/Slytherin ship is better than another, what are they really arguing, since neither is canon yet? It seems like it really comes down to either what makes more interesting stories (which probably depends on the author), what a particular ship "says" (which might depend on the author and the reader) or what relationship the reader would like. Or which person would be better for the character. But just like with real people, deciding intellectually on who they would do better with often has no bearing on who they want or end up with.
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I agree-it's like people who think it makes Draco nicer to have him treat the other Slytherins like dirt. Um, no.
Either I don't really understand what you mean here, or I don't really see this. I read a lot of H/S, but I don't really see any of it as recreating the scenes (except in the sense of Harry and Snape needing to resume Occlumency lessons, but I don't think that's what you mean).
I don't mean recreating the scenes, but more like recreating the intensity and emotions that are present in canon-often as a starting point to move into something else. Even if you don't write the part that's canon. So, like, with H/S it seems like it's the intensity of the canon scenes that gives birth to the slash. So like with Sirius and Remus I feel like the heart of the ship is probably the relationship they have in their later life-that's the basis upon which people write the variation, if that makes sense.
The two don't seem all that interested in each other, but as H/H shippers point out (sometimes very effectively), these two have a good basis for future romance, perhaps much more so than either R/H or H/G.
Yes, I think that's the kind of evidence (the B type) that seems to fall into a grey area for me--as you said, you can pretty much find evidence for anything that way. And that's great for slash and het because you're looking for stuff for the story. But for me, when I see somebody say there's evidence I feel like that means it's something that's, like, happening in the story already. If it's just that they'd make an interesting couple or a good couple that doesn't seem like evidence to me since lots of people could be a good couple in theory and yet never have any interest in each other.
I guess that's what it sometimes happens when people pit ships against each other. I mean, when people argue that H/Hr is better than R/Hr, or one Harry/Slytherin ship is better than another, what are they really arguing, since neither is canon yet? It seems like it really comes down to either what makes more interesting stories (which probably depends on the author), what a particular ship "says" (which might depend on the author and the reader) or what relationship the reader would like. Or which person would be better for the character. But just like with real people, deciding intellectually on who they would do better with often has no bearing on who they want or end up with.