I think that using the term "old canon" is very interesting: after all, it's not like OotP or HBP negated previous books, did they?
Not at all - what I meant is that they negated older *fanfic*. New as in 'more recent canon', although I'd say it *is* new, not just enlarged, as it's a progress in time, too.
I think you've nailed down the two reasons why 'old canon' fics are still written - either because the writers dislike the developments in the current book(s), or because someone started a fic a long time ago and still wants to write/finish it (*whistles innocently*). Or - I did wonder about that because it seems to happen a lot in slash/smut - in order to pull off a pairing which has run into canonical trouble. I guess it's possible to write, for example, Sirius alive after OotP not so much as a protest against canon, but to write Sirius. On second thought, that might not just apply to shipfic...
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Date: 2006-08-04 05:56 pm (UTC)Not at all - what I meant is that they negated older *fanfic*. New as in 'more recent canon', although I'd say it *is* new, not just enlarged, as it's a progress in time, too.
I think you've nailed down the two reasons why 'old canon' fics are still written - either because the writers dislike the developments in the current book(s), or because someone started a fic a long time ago and still wants to write/finish it (*whistles innocently*). Or - I did wonder about that because it seems to happen a lot in slash/smut - in order to pull off a pairing which has run into canonical trouble. I guess it's possible to write, for example, Sirius alive after OotP not so much as a protest against canon, but to write Sirius. On second thought, that might not just apply to shipfic...