![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyfor some reason that's been something I really needed to do, and also it turns out that my go-to comfort reading is still (or again?) Harry Potter fanfic. Well, it is what it is.
Anyway, here I am, casually glancing at the newest things posted at Ao3, and I catch one with an author's note saying that they wrote it in response to the shortage of time travel fix-it Drarry fics and -
well, first of all, given the amount of new HP fics that are posted every single hour, I'm fairly certain that there's no shortage of anything except Hufflepuff!Draco (I checked), but also, in particular I think there must be a ton of time travel fix-it Drarry, like, isn't that practically its own subgenre? (New random request: Hufflepuff!Draco time travel fix-it, with or without Drarry, but he's not the time traveler. One of the Weasleys or whoever made a quick sojourn for no purpose other than to prank him and it stuck. In the process, people seriously interrogate the toxic nature of the house structure of Hogwarts. This can either be combined with or separate from: Severus and Remus and/or Sirius team up to save Harry from the Dursleys, shenanigans ensue, people have feelings)
Anyway anyway, all this has reminded me of my various pet peeves, such as:
wolves don't work that way, why would humans
Hermione doesn't read fiction, and there's no way she and Draco are bonding over their shared love of Jane Austen, and they don't really map onto Pride and Prejudice anyway even if you squint
the Weasleys are already bad parents, you don't have to exaggerate it, that's like saying that what they do in canon isn't bad enough
ditto on Dumbledore being manipulative as hell
the Evans parents definitely favored Lily, and can we at least acknowledge that?
what did I just say about the wolves!?
please stop indenting your paragraphs, half of them are only three lines long
snakes don't blink, I don't care what JKR has to think about it
can we just elide over why there's no period-typical queerphobia in this fic? I don't need or want an infodump about how accepting the wizarding world is, I'm pretty sure they're not. Even if they weren't generally backwards, they're an isolated minority group with serious fascist tendencies, they definitely trend pro-natalist, and that means no gay stuff if it slows down the babymaking. But if you don't bring it up, I don't have to think about it, I can just be like "cool, so they're boyfriends"
either deal with house elves and/or goblins or don't, but don't try to make me happy with the status quo
wolves, guys, wolves - that's not how they work. That's not how anything works
this crossover doesn't work either
there are probably jobs in the wizarding world other than auror, healer, teacher, politician, and barista/barkeep
there's probably a middle ground between "anybody with any Death Eater connections at all, no matter how trivial, is spat on for life" and "lol, a golden key opens all the doors, all is forgiven!!!!"
given the resurgence of the right wing in the real world, it is depressingly likely that it's resurgent in the wizarding world too, and I don't want fic about that but I don't not want fic about that either, if you get what I mean
no, dogs and (probably) werewolves also don't work that way, can we not
there is no world in which Narcissa is an unproblematically loving and doting parent and Lucius is beating his son left and right and 100% abusive at all times, like, at best she's still enabling, and I kinda think they're all going to have to come to terms with that
likewise, I can see Hermione/Draco, but I just don't think she's cozying up to his parents
Anyway, here I am, casually glancing at the newest things posted at Ao3, and I catch one with an author's note saying that they wrote it in response to the shortage of time travel fix-it Drarry fics and -
well, first of all, given the amount of new HP fics that are posted every single hour, I'm fairly certain that there's no shortage of anything except Hufflepuff!Draco (I checked), but also, in particular I think there must be a ton of time travel fix-it Drarry, like, isn't that practically its own subgenre? (New random request: Hufflepuff!Draco time travel fix-it, with or without Drarry, but he's not the time traveler. One of the Weasleys or whoever made a quick sojourn for no purpose other than to prank him and it stuck. In the process, people seriously interrogate the toxic nature of the house structure of Hogwarts. This can either be combined with or separate from: Severus and Remus and/or Sirius team up to save Harry from the Dursleys, shenanigans ensue, people have feelings)
Anyway anyway, all this has reminded me of my various pet peeves, such as:
wolves don't work that way, why would humans
Hermione doesn't read fiction, and there's no way she and Draco are bonding over their shared love of Jane Austen, and they don't really map onto Pride and Prejudice anyway even if you squint
the Weasleys are already bad parents, you don't have to exaggerate it, that's like saying that what they do in canon isn't bad enough
ditto on Dumbledore being manipulative as hell
the Evans parents definitely favored Lily, and can we at least acknowledge that?
what did I just say about the wolves!?
please stop indenting your paragraphs, half of them are only three lines long
snakes don't blink, I don't care what JKR has to think about it
can we just elide over why there's no period-typical queerphobia in this fic? I don't need or want an infodump about how accepting the wizarding world is, I'm pretty sure they're not. Even if they weren't generally backwards, they're an isolated minority group with serious fascist tendencies, they definitely trend pro-natalist, and that means no gay stuff if it slows down the babymaking. But if you don't bring it up, I don't have to think about it, I can just be like "cool, so they're boyfriends"
either deal with house elves and/or goblins or don't, but don't try to make me happy with the status quo
wolves, guys, wolves - that's not how they work. That's not how anything works
this crossover doesn't work either
there are probably jobs in the wizarding world other than auror, healer, teacher, politician, and barista/barkeep
there's probably a middle ground between "anybody with any Death Eater connections at all, no matter how trivial, is spat on for life" and "lol, a golden key opens all the doors, all is forgiven!!!!"
given the resurgence of the right wing in the real world, it is depressingly likely that it's resurgent in the wizarding world too, and I don't want fic about that but I don't not want fic about that either, if you get what I mean
no, dogs and (probably) werewolves also don't work that way, can we not
there is no world in which Narcissa is an unproblematically loving and doting parent and Lucius is beating his son left and right and 100% abusive at all times, like, at best she's still enabling, and I kinda think they're all going to have to come to terms with that
likewise, I can see Hermione/Draco, but I just don't think she's cozying up to his parents
