I don't think that many people hate cannon. I just don't honestly see the point in writing fic that mirrors cannon so closely that you are pretty much writing an HP book yourself.
To me, fanfics are elaborating and exploring specific corners of the cannon world that probably (Or more than likely for sure) will never get mentioned by the author themselves. It is also a place to play the what if game? What if Sirius had found Harry before he was whisked off by Knight Bus? What if Harry hadn't heeded Remus and gone after Sirius? Etc Etc.
People, for whatever reason, latch onto a specific character and want to play with that character and most of the time to do so, usually means taking a huge step away from cannon.
I do agree that there are some things (like a Draco/Harry relationship) that I personally can't fathom, but others do and they want to write it. Hey, all power to them. They wanna do it. Meh.
Also, many people stop writing cannon relationships because they just don't relate to what the cannon dictates as being the perfect relationship for the two mentioned characters.
What's the next best option? write a fanfic where he/she gets together with someone else. Hence the deviation from cannon.
Cannon, especially the way JKR writes it, seems like a springboard for people to make their own mythologies. It's full of unexplained things and plotholes that writers can exploit and make their own. Hence the fun in playing in the HP universe.
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To me, fanfics are elaborating and exploring specific corners of the cannon world that probably (Or more than likely for sure) will never get mentioned by the author themselves. It is also a place to play the what if game? What if Sirius had found Harry before he was whisked off by Knight Bus? What if Harry hadn't heeded Remus and gone after Sirius? Etc Etc.
People, for whatever reason, latch onto a specific character and want to play with that character and most of the time to do so, usually means taking a huge step away from cannon.
I do agree that there are some things (like a Draco/Harry relationship) that I personally can't fathom, but others do and they want to write it. Hey, all power to them. They wanna do it. Meh.
Also, many people stop writing cannon relationships because they just don't relate to what the cannon dictates as being the perfect relationship for the two mentioned characters.
What's the next best option? write a fanfic where he/she gets together with someone else. Hence the deviation from cannon.
Cannon, especially the way JKR writes it, seems like a springboard for people to make their own mythologies. It's full of unexplained things and plotholes that writers can exploit and make their own. Hence the fun in playing in the HP universe.
My three cents take on that. Cheers.