Yeah, I can theoretically see the appeal of that, though all the other-world fanfics I've seen have been too way-out for me to get into (or perhaps poorly characterised).
Hmmm. I guess I see the characters as being part of and growing from their environment, and so putting them elsewhere doesn't feel like HP fanfic to me, in much the way as crossover fic doesn't feel like HP fanfic so much as a hybrid of HP and something else. AR could be characterised as crossover with an 'original universe', it seems to me.
I wonder if the environment is so important to me partly because I'm British? Part of the appeal of the books to me is that they tap into some archetypes of Britishness, and I miss those aspects when the environment is changed - an original character in the 'canon' environment is much less jarring.
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Date: 2006-08-05 08:19 pm (UTC)Hmmm. I guess I see the characters as being part of and growing from their environment, and so putting them elsewhere doesn't feel like HP fanfic to me, in much the way as crossover fic doesn't feel like HP fanfic so much as a hybrid of HP and something else. AR could be characterised as crossover with an 'original universe', it seems to me.
I wonder if the environment is so important to me partly because I'm British? Part of the appeal of the books to me is that they tap into some archetypes of Britishness, and I miss those aspects when the environment is changed - an original character in the 'canon' environment is much less jarring.