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[faithfulreader]

I was very much interested in a few things that became clichés of Harry/Draco fandom.

Harry and Draco are usually portrayed in fan fiction as good-looking, clever and rich people. Their relationship is usually formed mostly under the influence of raging hormones.

These are my questions:

1. Why such things became fandom clichés in the first

Comments

[anansay]

Well, they are good-looking, they are clever, and they are rich. And, most relationships are based on hormones--it's the technical term for "spark". And they DO have a spark; it's what attracts each of them to the other. At the beginning, it may not have been sexual, but they seem to constantly become each other's orbit, so to speak

[faithfulreader]

Because there really are only so many plots one can write about. Sure they can change the subtle variables, but it's still the same.

I disagree -- life isn't the same, is it? Why should books and fics be the same? They should reflect life :)

[ellie_nor]

Storytelling research says that there are only seven tropes (~ plots) in the entire world. And stories are not life - they reflect life and allow us to reflect upon it. To do that, they use tropes.

[faithfulreader]

I believe there are no boundaries -- aside from those *we* consruct. But it's our choice to construct them :)

[ellie_nor]

I agree completely with that. But I prefer to read stories that play with the tropes - I have to live real life as it is already, I want to read about it put through a lens or two.

[mereol]

I have to live real life as it is already, I want to read about it put through a lens or two.

Agreed. It's why soap operas have been so popular for so very long. It's escapism and fantasy. There may be only seven real plots in life, but the diversity comes in when you've got a gajillion different minds telling us those stories. Each and every one is so very different.

[faithfulreader]

Yeah, you are right - point of view is what really matters. The more peculiar it is, the better :D

That’s what was the point of my post - why write from one and the same point of view? :D

[faithfulreader]

And isn't life very different? I mean life can contain things that are polar opposites and it still makes perfect sense :) You know, life and people are the most interesting things I've ever met :) And good literature portrays life as it is from some point of view :D

I hope I made sense :)