A lot of it really depends. It's the old "you've got to learn the rules before you break them". You can tell the difference between a fic that disregards HBP because the author is pissed off with a canon development and wants to write Harry falling for Hermione while Ginny shags Draco (angelic!Draco or evil!Draco, depending on the author's taste and feelings about Ginny) or because they have a plotbunny about defeating Voldemort that doesn't involve horcruxes.
I mean, I really have a thing for daughters being reunited with their long-lost fathers (and given that I have lived with my father all my life and love him very much, this probably says something very odd about my psyche), like in Mariel of Redwall. Say someone were to go back to GoF canon and write a fic that involved Sirius meeting his kid during Harry's fifth year (DON'T JUDGE ME), it could go two ways: a) OotP is rewritten with OotP canon (Grimmauld Place and prophecies and Snape's lessons) but with a Sue (just making a guess) who helps out and befriends the trio and Neville; b) canon past GoF is completely rethought, possibly in line with the leading pre-OotP theories, and the daughter may or may not be a Sue who helps out &c. A sucks and B could be interesting. A rewrite of canon is always a bad idea.
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Date: 2006-08-04 01:11 am (UTC)I mean, I really have a thing for daughters being reunited with their long-lost fathers (and given that I have lived with my father all my life and love him very much, this probably says something very odd about my psyche), like in Mariel of Redwall. Say someone were to go back to GoF canon and write a fic that involved Sirius meeting his kid during Harry's fifth year (DON'T JUDGE ME), it could go two ways: a) OotP is rewritten with OotP canon (Grimmauld Place and prophecies and Snape's lessons) but with a Sue (just making a guess) who helps out and befriends the trio and Neville; b) canon past GoF is completely rethought, possibly in line with the leading pre-OotP theories, and the daughter may or may not be a Sue who helps out &c. A sucks and B could be interesting. A rewrite of canon is always a bad idea.