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I love Manipulative!Dumbledore fics, and I just thought of a rationale for them.
Themes that fanauthors want to portray in fic are sometimes completely incongruous with the themes in the original text. So, the characters that the original author uses to voice her themes (eg Dumbledore, Hermione, Sirius) must be, er, wrong or lying.
Actions are easier to explain away or reinterpret than words - how many 'Lily had a secret elaborate plan that she didn't tell Dumbledore for some reason or other, (so Harry didn't need to live with Petunia after all)' fics are there?
I'm entertaining the idea of a AU in which Peter doesn't actually betray the Potters. First I've got to find a break-off point, so I decide that, actually, it could be possible that Peter was under the Imperious curse in the canon universe. But there's a problem: how does no-one notice this? And who's controlling him? And what does smart, capable Lily Potter, who works in the DoM 14/36 hours of the day, have to do with it?
( And so, just like that, puppetmaster!Lily emerges. )
What's my point? I have no idea. It might be that puppetmasters are necessary for deconstruction of the text-author's themes, especially if they were used by the text-author to insert those themes.
Also, the Bowling For Soup song 'I'm gay' was just on Scuzz, and I finally understand the Sirius/Serious pun in HP - they pronounced 'serious' like I do 'Sirius'. I'd been thinking that you folk over the pond pronounced 'Sirius' differently. *facepalm*
I love Manipulative!Dumbledore fics, and I just thought of a rationale for them.
Themes that fanauthors want to portray in fic are sometimes completely incongruous with the themes in the original text. So, the characters that the original author uses to voice her themes (eg Dumbledore, Hermione, Sirius) must be, er, wrong or lying.
Actions are easier to explain away or reinterpret than words - how many 'Lily had a secret elaborate plan that she didn't tell Dumbledore for some reason or other, (so Harry didn't need to live with Petunia after all)' fics are there?
I'm entertaining the idea of a AU in which Peter doesn't actually betray the Potters. First I've got to find a break-off point, so I decide that, actually, it could be possible that Peter was under the Imperious curse in the canon universe. But there's a problem: how does no-one notice this? And who's controlling him? And what does smart, capable Lily Potter, who works in the DoM 14/36 hours of the day, have to do with it?
( And so, just like that, puppetmaster!Lily emerges. )
What's my point? I have no idea. It might be that puppetmasters are necessary for deconstruction of the text-author's themes, especially if they were used by the text-author to insert those themes.
Also, the Bowling For Soup song 'I'm gay' was just on Scuzz, and I finally understand the Sirius/Serious pun in HP - they pronounced 'serious' like I do 'Sirius'. I'd been thinking that you folk over the pond pronounced 'Sirius' differently. *facepalm*
