Hey everybody.
So I've been writing a fanfic, Harry Potter and A Memory of Light, and also re-read chapters 1 and 2 of the DW step. However, I realized something: I have no idea what the harry potter fanfic cliches are.
See, I pretty much avoided Harry Potter and HP fanfic until about five years ago, and so I missed a lot of the furor and fanfic that came out in the gaps between the books.
Now I know some from general pop-culture osmosis, though only by their names and entries in tv tropes, such as Fem-Blaise, Draco in leather pants, marriage contract and soul bonds--actually i have no idea what the last two connote, as I'm assuming these both have to do with love and/or sex but beyond that I've got nothing.
From reading the DW steps, apparently there is always a sorting ceremony and mysterious prophecies by Sybil Trelawney.
Having read some of the peggy-sue HP-fics out there, I am aware of the dangers of ultra-powerful Harry Potter, and emotionally mature Harry Potter. Trust me when I say that neither of those things will be the case in my fic, justified or not.
So, I am asking here, what other cliches are out there in HP-fic-dom?
-murmur
warning: just because it's a cliche, doesn't mean that I won't use it. I've already used a peggy sue, and therefore am not afraid of more cliches.
So I've been writing a fanfic, Harry Potter and A Memory of Light, and also re-read chapters 1 and 2 of the DW step. However, I realized something: I have no idea what the harry potter fanfic cliches are.
See, I pretty much avoided Harry Potter and HP fanfic until about five years ago, and so I missed a lot of the furor and fanfic that came out in the gaps between the books.
Now I know some from general pop-culture osmosis, though only by their names and entries in tv tropes, such as Fem-Blaise, Draco in leather pants, marriage contract and soul bonds--actually i have no idea what the last two connote, as I'm assuming these both have to do with love and/or sex but beyond that I've got nothing.
From reading the DW steps, apparently there is always a sorting ceremony and mysterious prophecies by Sybil Trelawney.
Having read some of the peggy-sue HP-fics out there, I am aware of the dangers of ultra-powerful Harry Potter, and emotionally mature Harry Potter. Trust me when I say that neither of those things will be the case in my fic, justified or not.
So, I am asking here, what other cliches are out there in HP-fic-dom?
-murmur
warning: just because it's a cliche, doesn't mean that I won't use it. I've already used a peggy sue, and therefore am not afraid of more cliches.