Trouble is, the environment is a lot of what shapes their character and actually defines them as characters. A 'H/D in High School in Japan' story isn't really about Harry and Draco, it's about two characters who resemble them thematically but come from a different world in which the assumptions don't always map.
You're totally right. I think what I meant above was that even if it's AU/AR, the character dynamics remain similar, if not identical - even if they adjust to a different background/history. But they keep some characteristics, like behaviour patterns, attitude, way of speaking... I'd expect it to be a touch closer to canon characterisation than Joe Macbeth would need to be - where I'd be happy with a simple intertextual adaption of the themes of Macbeth, but wouldn't necessarily expect the character of Macbeth to be that close to Shakespeares. Am I that make any sense here?
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You're totally right. I think what I meant above was that even if it's AU/AR, the character dynamics remain similar, if not identical - even if they adjust to a different background/history. But they keep some characteristics, like behaviour patterns, attitude, way of speaking... I'd expect it to be a touch closer to canon characterisation than Joe Macbeth would need to be - where I'd be happy with a simple intertextual adaption of the themes of Macbeth, but wouldn't necessarily expect the character of Macbeth to be that close to Shakespeares. Am I that make any sense here?