someday I will have to get another HP icon

[ojuzu]

Every time I read Al Potter And His Very Epic Plan, my brain is divided into roughly equal parts of "Wow, this is just as amazing and hilarious as the last time I read it!" and "I really, really, really want to be Benjamin Avery."

Not necessarily when I grow up! I mean, right now would be fine.

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Comments

[demoerin]

That fic is a lot of fun, but it's made me realise a major problem I have with HP fic - it makes me think of the many and varied ways in which canon failed. The way the Hogwarts houses were treated was especially annoying, so even in a fic that deals with it, I'm distracted by thinking 'wow that whole concept was treated AWFULLY'.

Avery really is great though, and I like this take on Harry.

[ojuzu]

Ahaha, that is also my problem with HP fic! Like, I will always be thinking about the Hogwarts houses and the house-elves and the goblins (I don't care how often y'all fell asleep in Binns' lectures, maybe you should have TAKEN A HINT from the fact that most of history seems to be goblin rebellions!) and Muggle culture, and how much I want to fix it all. Even though it's the very foundation of canon that's broken.

And good fic has come out of HP canon but it will never, ever make me okay with that canon.