Fandom

[bubosquared]

Every time I'm about to give up on HP fandom altogether (The H/D shmoop! The teenies! The divas! The temper tantrums! Aaarrrrrgh!), I get dragged into an interesting discussion and wham! The muses are back.

Normally, I'm pretty hit-and-run when it comes to fandoms. I'm still surprised that my Metallica flame hasn't gone out, and I think that's mainly because of the good writers in that famdom. But Harry Potter, I suspect, may very well be here to stay for a loooong while, because it's a book fandom, and there's so much more room for discussion and interpretation and characterisation in a book fandom.

I don't like canon Draco for what he is. I like him for what he could become.
(Sae; LJ comment)

That about sums it up. The Harry Potter sandbox, because it's a book sandbox, is so much bigger than movie or tv show or RL fandoms, because a picture does not say more than a thousand words; it might, but there are things you can say in words that a picture (image) will never ever say. This proves that I am, above all, a reader, a lover of books, a writer.

(And yet, despite this huge sandbox, people continue to stray outside it and insist that they are still inside. Sigh. </bitchiness>)