I don't mind if people write stories which ignore canon. If the story's good, who cares? I do mind when people don't warn for it. When I go into a story and there are no AU warnings or whatever, I expect Sirius and Dumbledore to be dead as doornails, and I'm extremely annoyed when they aren't.
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Date: 2006-08-08 07:03 pm (UTC)I don't mind if people write stories which ignore canon. If the story's good, who cares? I do mind when people don't warn for it. When I go into a story and there are no AU warnings or whatever, I expect Sirius and Dumbledore to be dead as doornails, and I'm extremely annoyed when they aren't.