3432: The Scale between Black and White - Pansy, Hermione

[pottersues]

Don't forget about Tropes Sue Week either. I'm looking for help finding entries for said week.

Here is the next day of “Don't Like, Don't Read”.

TITLE: The Scale between Black and White The writer says, “the working title was Shades of Grey. Somehow I thought, that would be misleading...”
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Comments

[anonymous]

I don't have any issues if a writer simply says the story is AU and leaves it at that

[yemi_hikari]

The AU genre isn't just about making changes, but about exploring the cause and effect those changes have in a logical and well thought out mannered. Any writer who labels their story as AU just because they made changes to the original canon is insulting the AU genre, not to mention the AU writers who actually spend time trying to figure out how to make things work in their story

[yemi_hikari]

First, there is no such thing as "insulting a genre." AU simply means it's a different 'verse

[pottersues]

If a writer doesn't "give a hoot about 'logic' in terms of consistency with canon" then they don't care about their writing period, or they should be going and writing original fiction instead.

There is also a difference between being fair to the writer and trying to brush off the criticism they receive the way you are. Three times I've seen you argue that an exception should be made because of the genre, and now when someone explains why your idea lacks plausibility you argue that it doesn't.

These were not the only problems with the comments you've made, so please come back when you understand what you're actually talking about.

[yemi_hikari]

What a person actually means when they say something is insulting to a genre they mean a statement is insulting to the writers of said genre who put a lot of work into what they do

[yemi_hikari]

My other comment was in reply to the anon. Anyways...

I think the writer may be labeling her story as slightly AU because some writers label what amounts to canon defilement or original fiction as AU when it's not. She's pretty much doing what a writer should do when they write an AU.

Which makes me wonder if the other problems aren't resulting from other things she's seeing in fandom. I'm not talking so much about her mimicking other writer's, but more like she's holding back what she can do because she's not impressed with what she's seen, but she's also worried about messing up.

[beacon80]

A better explanation for why Hermione might not be selected for Head Girl is that after everything the students went through last year, they might want someone who had suffered through with them. Hermione is a hero, but that doesn't necessarily mean she can understand what it was like there. Given that there are four other female prefects in their seventh year, choosing one of them (probably Ginny) would make sense.
The entire thing is rather pointless, though. I doubt the story would change much if Hermione was Head Girl. Harry not being captain is even less important.

[yemi_hikari]

Bingo. I think the whole mentioning of them not getting the position was to give them other special positions.