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I don't think the story is trying to take the characters from cannon, but take the world and completely reimagine the characters. The original characters just s
by HDThoreaun 4y ago
I don't think the story is trying to take the characters from cannon, but take the world and completely reimagine the characters. The original characters just serve as foils for their reimagined versions. I never really understood complaints about fanfic authors not sticking to cannon character traits. Isn't the point to create new stories that are loosely linked to the original? Anyway, HPMOR is more pop philosophy novel/religious text that attaches itself to a well known world for publicity than any traditional sort of fan fiction.
- Vecr 4y agoI guess so. As I said before it's essentially a morality story, but in that sense I think it's evidence for the author having a bias toward polyamory, because there's very little or no in-universe reasons, and there's no broad social acceptance problem in not having polyamory mentioned at all. As an example, I think there would be social acceptance problems if the story had no women or clothing in it. Polyamory is no where near that level.