Yeah, the thing is I can see so many great potential ships in HP and it's the warring that makes it so annoying. The books say pretty much nothing on the subject and they're certainly never going to say anything about slash. So why do people need to argue that their fic is the right one, especially when both ships are so not going to happen that neither one is right. It's like arguing whether chocolate is better than vanilla as if this sort of thing isn't subjective.
Of course you could, I suppose, argue why you think a relationship would work more than another would, but that still gets into how you see the ship and how you see relationships in general, and there's no way to prove it. And even the person who proves that their relationship is superior could be proven wrong, because people make dumb choices in their life.
I'd venture to guess those bits of canon evidence are treated differently because of how they compare with what attracted those shippers in the first place.
Yes! That's just what it seems like. And I can understand that, but still it's kind of funny to think that our pov in HP is so limited that pretty much all the characters have unknown lives outside of it. We should be able to see something of it--like in OotP I thought it was fairly obvious Ron was going to try out for Quidditch even when Harry was clueless, based on what we saw. I thought the new Ginny was far more ridiculous. But sombeody like Snape and even more Draco, because these are characters Harry doesn't hang out with and only notices when they're being shoved in his face (plus Snape is an adult) have a lot of life we don't know about. So it's interesting how much we want the rest of their lives to conform to the small bit we see with Harry.
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Re: some blather
Date: 2004-07-06 07:32 pm (UTC)Of course you could, I suppose, argue why you think a relationship would work more than another would, but that still gets into how you see the ship and how you see relationships in general, and there's no way to prove it. And even the person who proves that their relationship is superior could be proven wrong, because people make dumb choices in their life.
I'd venture to guess those bits of canon evidence are treated differently because of how they compare with what attracted those shippers in the first place.
Yes! That's just what it seems like. And I can understand that, but still it's kind of funny to think that our pov in HP is so limited that pretty much all the characters have unknown lives outside of it. We should be able to see something of it--like in OotP I thought it was fairly obvious Ron was going to try out for Quidditch even when Harry was clueless, based on what we saw. I thought the new Ginny was far more ridiculous. But sombeody like Snape and even more Draco, because these are characters Harry doesn't hang out with and only notices when they're being shoved in his face (plus Snape is an adult) have a lot of life we don't know about. So it's interesting how much we want the rest of their lives to conform to the small bit we see with Harry.