Thank you for answering that question! And I have just realised that we must have got into fandom about the same time (the Three-Year Summer), based on the fic you describe, though I think I am a wee bit younger than you...
Yep. I got into fandom riiight before the release of the fourth book, although I don't think I really started reading fanfic until a few months after GoF came out.
As far as the Marauder goes, I do think fandom - myself included - made them out to be more collected than the third book even implied. I really think that the trio is actually who MWPP could've been, and the trio basically learns from them not to make those mistakes. I mean, Peter even almost ruins Ron, Harry and Hermione's friendship by faking his own death again. And Remus went the whole year keeping a huge secret about Sirius because he was ashamed of the lie he told Dumbledore.
I actually think being so trapped in the past and overall pretty screwed up actually makes them more interesting as characters, but it also makes their story tragic, rather than the more hopeful story the Three Year Summer fandom went for. As I remember it, hardly anyone envisioned Sirius or Remus being killed off, or even that they would have a lot of the issues they ended up having. Snape seemed to be 50/50, and a lot of fics had him become nicer post-GoF, or at least more "on board" than he ended up being.
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Date: 2017-05-22 08:08 pm (UTC)Thank you for answering that question! And I have just realised that we must have got into fandom about the same time (the Three-Year Summer), based on the fic you describe, though I think I am a wee bit younger than you...
Yep. I got into fandom riiight before the release of the fourth book, although I don't think I really started reading fanfic until a few months after GoF came out.
As far as the Marauder goes, I do think fandom - myself included - made them out to be more collected than the third book even implied. I really think that the trio is actually who MWPP could've been, and the trio basically learns from them not to make those mistakes. I mean, Peter even almost ruins Ron, Harry and Hermione's friendship by faking his own death again. And Remus went the whole year keeping a huge secret about Sirius because he was ashamed of the lie he told Dumbledore.
I actually think being so trapped in the past and overall pretty screwed up actually makes them more interesting as characters, but it also makes their story tragic, rather than the more hopeful story the Three Year Summer fandom went for. As I remember it, hardly anyone envisioned Sirius or Remus being killed off, or even that they would have a lot of the issues they ended up having. Snape seemed to be 50/50, and a lot of fics had him become nicer post-GoF, or at least more "on board" than he ended up being.