This has sparked some interesting discussion, and statements of positions that I generally agree with (principally, if it's done for a good reason, I'll give it a go, because thought, not blind rejection, has motivated it).
As for 'Should stories using 'old canon' still be written after new canon has come out and some time has passed?'
I wouldn't say 'should' because I don't think we have the right to try to regulate people's preferences. I will say I think the author is taking a risk, and, for me, needs to have a good reason for doing so, with a good fic as the end product. I can always stop reading if the result seems to be lame. I would hate to try to stop people from exploring what are/seem to them to be good ideas! (Some writers have better judgement than others, of course...)
I clicked on 'not HBP/OotP compliant' as a sort of neutral label, but really, what you're proposing is AU: changing a circumstance that is (now) canon. AR seems generally to be taken to mean shifting the characters to some other setting, and playing out ideas in that looser framework.
I'll be interested to see what comes of this, in terms of your own writing.
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Date: 2006-08-04 01:41 am (UTC)As for 'Should stories using 'old canon' still be written after new canon has come out and some time has passed?'
I wouldn't say 'should' because I don't think we have the right to try to regulate people's preferences. I will say I think the author is taking a risk, and, for me, needs to have a good reason for doing so, with a good fic as the end product. I can always stop reading if the result seems to be lame. I would hate to try to stop people from exploring what are/seem to them to be good ideas! (Some writers have better judgement than others, of course...)
I clicked on 'not HBP/OotP compliant' as a sort of neutral label, but really, what you're proposing is AU: changing a circumstance that is (now) canon. AR seems generally to be taken to mean shifting the characters to some other setting, and playing out ideas in that looser framework.
I'll be interested to see what comes of this, in terms of your own writing.