If Snape showed up in a post-DH fic...

[summerborn]

Snupin-centric, I suppose, but anyone with thoughts on the subject is welcome to participate. I've been away a while - what are your thoughts about warnings and labels for post-DH Snupin (if that isn't a contradiction in terms)?

Poll Regarding older Snupin (Post-War, Post-DH) fic...

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[snegurochka_lee]

Oh look! I just did a new quibbler_report and had to add AU labels where there weren't any. :((( [/poss. biggest fandom pet peeve]. If Snape or Lupin is alive and your fic is set postwar, it's AU. It just is. I suppose I might entertain a "Snape really lived and crawled out of the Shack and got awesomesauce treatment" thing if the fic really focused on making me believe it as a central plot thing, not fangirl wishful thinking. But Remus, alas, is just dead. :(

I'll read a variety of post-DH scenarios, but I do want to be warned for AU. I'm a stickler like that.

As for Teddy... I'm rather interested in him lately, but rarely with Remus or Tonks also alive. For my own writing, in fact, my characterisation of Teddy is completely dependent on his parents being dead and him having a bit of an orphan complex. I've read good fic where Remus is alive and they're hanging out and stuff, but I don't think I'll be writing it. Teddy = orphan. :)

Also, I am wildly inconsistent and want things both ways:

If you don't call it AU, then you have to mention Tonks before pairing Remus with *anyone*.

AND

I'm just tired of reading about how Remus left Tonks before I get to the Snupin-y goodness.

*sigh*

[summerborn]

Wildly inconsistent is perfectly understandable :)

Interesting take on Teddy, too. I must say I haven't been reading much for the past *mumble mumble* and I haven't seen much of him. I'd love to have those next-genners get some personality of their own in the hands of some good fic writers, though!