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NM ([info]narcissam) wrote,
@ 2007-11-07 13:04:00
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To dream the impossible dream
I've been digging through the HPFGU archives from 2000 and found a number of interesting posts from Steve Vander Ark. The wank has taken on the qualities of psychological drama for me. The correspondence I'm highlighting could be an illustrative case of Why You Should State Some Caveats When You Teach Your Kids To Pursue Their Dream No Matter What.

ETA: More stuff on Fandom Discuss. This time not about Vander Ark's ambitions, but about how he got from being Rowling's biggest cheerleader to here. And I reveal my odd empathy for Vander Ark.

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[info]waltraute
2007-11-07 10:12 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, it's becoming angry at the author not from an immediate/first reading reaction, as many of the Slytherfen ("What? I like Snape better!") did, but a slower and finer process of disillusionment based on disappointment and different priorities.

Side comment: HP has been so fascinating to me because I've gotten to watch people read a work in progress where the ending makes sense to me, but I didn't predict the direction it went from the middle. Almost no one got the tone of OotP right, going by both meta and fanfic predictions over that three-year gap. I think the process of trying to Figure It Out From What We Have really made him and others snap.

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