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Why I Detest Cassandra Cla(i)re
Aug. 21st, 2013 08:33 pmI was going to write a nice celebratory "fanfics that changed my life" post for my birthday week but I got bogged down in this. And since there's a new film based on the works of the creature formerly known as She Who Must Not Be Named hitting the theaters, consider this a PSA.
I got into Harry Potter in between the release of Order of the Phoenix (HP5) and The Half-Blood Prince (HP6). The wait between books seemed interminable at the time, but there was fanfic. My god, was there fanfic. And after I'd read a bunch of it, I turned to two of the writers cited as "must reads," BNFs whose work I'd avoided because they were Draco-centric and my opinions on Draco were mostly "LOLferret." One went by the name of Maya, and her works included "Underwater Light" and "In The Shadow of His Wings" and honestly they were well-written but I didn't really get into them. I mean, "In the Shadow..." was Harry/Draco in an alternate future Hogwarts where a strangely Snape was headmaster because Dumbledore had run off in disgrace. Typical Slytherfen ass-pull, you know? But she was really sweet and her LJ was a good read. She took it all down when she went pro a short time later and I haven't read her works but I wish her well, even if she did think Revenge of the Sith was a good movie.
And then there was the Draco Trilogy, already known as the source of Draco In Leather Pants (TM) but still widely hailed. So off I went to Schnoogle where long-form 'fics were archived on an HP 'fic site and I started in with "Draco Dormiens," the story of how Draco and Harry become friends after an accidental body-swap that sees Harry-as-Draco sent home to live with the Malfoys.
( And then what? )
I got into Harry Potter in between the release of Order of the Phoenix (HP5) and The Half-Blood Prince (HP6). The wait between books seemed interminable at the time, but there was fanfic. My god, was there fanfic. And after I'd read a bunch of it, I turned to two of the writers cited as "must reads," BNFs whose work I'd avoided because they were Draco-centric and my opinions on Draco were mostly "LOLferret." One went by the name of Maya, and her works included "Underwater Light" and "In The Shadow of His Wings" and honestly they were well-written but I didn't really get into them. I mean, "In the Shadow..." was Harry/Draco in an alternate future Hogwarts where a strangely Snape was headmaster because Dumbledore had run off in disgrace. Typical Slytherfen ass-pull, you know? But she was really sweet and her LJ was a good read. She took it all down when she went pro a short time later and I haven't read her works but I wish her well, even if she did think Revenge of the Sith was a good movie.
And then there was the Draco Trilogy, already known as the source of Draco In Leather Pants (TM) but still widely hailed. So off I went to Schnoogle where long-form 'fics were archived on an HP 'fic site and I started in with "Draco Dormiens," the story of how Draco and Harry become friends after an accidental body-swap that sees Harry-as-Draco sent home to live with the Malfoys.
( And then what? )
