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As time goes on, I find that I get more touchy and less willing to put up with a great deal of fanfic bad habits. I mentioned a while ago the fics that spend a great deal of time and ingenuity in breaking up canon relationships and getting Harry in bed with Draco or Hermione. Another one that honks me off is the kind where Dumbledore is bad-mouthed - and I just stopped reading a particularly egregious specimen, in which the people who morally condemn Dumbledore are (get ready for this) several Marvel characters. It does not seem to have occurred to the self-righteous twit who wrote it that if we go through the Marvel canon, we shall find far worse than Dumbledore's supposed manipulative streak. That the writer him or herself was displaying appalling self-righteousness would not, of course, occur to him/her. And then there is the usual slash Draco or nice Draco bullshit. There are times when having fought with half Harry Potter fandom seems to me a positive badge of honour.