Chapter Eleven -- The Bribe

[gehayi]

oblivionhold said she couldn't do all three chapters, so I'm doing Chapter 11, erastes is doing Chapter 12, and oblivionhold is doing Chapter 13.

In which Harry reads the newspaper repeatedly, Lupin sounds like Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation, Harry advises Lupin on his love life, Kreacher plays "bad cop," and the illogic becomes overwhelming.

Chapter Eleven -- The

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[bronze_ribbons]

*points to icon* I pretty much ship the Giant Squid and the Whomping Willow with anyone (including each other). I may have been the only person distraught when the US DH cover was released because the tree looked like it had gotten hit...

(I'm also devoted to Snape/Lupin and Tonks/Ginny, so yeah, I had extra reason to hope there would be more to Tonks/Lupin than emo-morph/wimpy-were. I didn't expect to despise the pairing even more. I used to claim I could write around anything canonical (hell, that's half of the fun where I'm concerned), but it's become such a expositionary headache establishing which parts of canon are "true" for any fic that's not outright AU that it's making writing Prydain non-con (*) look comparatively relaxing.(**))

(* Yes, this is actually on my to-do list. One of my dearest fandom friends has a hankering for Achren/Gwydion.)
(** Someone who doesn't know me might say this sounds like a bad case of fic-writer entitlement, so let me emphasize: I didn't expect JKR to cater to any of my ships. In fact, I rather hoped she would throw even more curveballs into the mix -- given that there was so much potential -- and there would have potential in the Tonks-Remus canon!plot as well, if they had been those characters from the get-go. However, even though I will happily spend hours concocting Byzantine variations of fanon, I object to having to twist my brain into Gordian pretzels to make sense of canon.)

(tl;dr, I know. Apparently I'm still far more bitter about this than is healthy. *sigh* *rolls eyes at self*)

[gehayi]

However, even though I will happily spend hours concocting Byzantine variations of fanon, I object to having to twist my brain into Gordian pretzels to make sense of canon.)

Amen to that. Canon should make sense on its own. No fan or fanficcer should have to twist herself in mental knots to make it work!