tjalorak, I don't deny that. What absolutely *blew my mind* on Birthday Present was a bit where they were talking about how Draco/Goyle/Crabbe had been basically hexed into goo at the end of OotP, and how everyone was *so* disappointed in the other students for doing that, and how it was horrible that D'dore let them get away with it, etc etc.
Completely forgetting the fact that the three were planning on attacking Harry et al. at the time, and that they had basically been terrorizing the entire school for the whole year.
At which point I was really wondering if the author would have tried to make the Death-Eater-Wannabes sympathetic if they had actually succeeded in some of the more reprehensible acts they tried in OotP.
I'm all for painting characters in different lights based on your interpretation, but the complete villainization of everyone who *isn't* Snape and his Slytherins by *everyone* in the order in that work is beyond OOC right into Bizzarro-land.
What really breaks it is that there's no rationalization or explanation for this sudden change in viewpoints. It's not like in...[searching for example]...Sunset over Britain, where the OOCness is explained and developed enough to make it acceptable. In Birthday Present we're expected to just accept it out of the blue, with nothing to support the viewpoint or to explain the sudden revision of characters that had been shown to be *at least* unsympathetic so such a viewpoint in the source material.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I hate that fic. It doesn't even reach my on the visceral 'talking to my neuroses' level that jbern's Bungle in the Jungle does.--
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Completely forgetting the fact that the three were planning on attacking Harry et al. at the time, and that they had basically been terrorizing the entire school for the whole year.
At which point I was really wondering if the author would have tried to make the Death-Eater-Wannabes sympathetic if they had actually succeeded in some of the more reprehensible acts they tried in OotP.
I'm all for painting characters in different lights based on your interpretation, but the complete villainization of everyone who *isn't* Snape and his Slytherins by *everyone* in the order in that work is beyond OOC right into Bizzarro-land.
What really breaks it is that there's no rationalization or explanation for this sudden change in viewpoints. It's not like in...[searching for example]...Sunset over Britain, where the OOCness is explained and developed enough to make it acceptable. In Birthday Present we're expected to just accept it out of the blue, with nothing to support the viewpoint or to explain the sudden revision of characters that had been shown to be *at least* unsympathetic so such a viewpoint in the source material.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I hate that fic. It doesn't even reach my on the visceral 'talking to my neuroses' level that jbern's Bungle in the Jungle does.--
Christopher Angel, aka JPublic
The Works of Christopher Angel