OOC-ness

So I've been browsing the net, reading some recommended HP fics from this one archive. The problem is that I simply cannot read beyond the second chapter of any of the stories that had an interesting summary. It's weird, because I've read quite a few stories where Harry was obliviously cute, incredibly sexy, tragically suicidal or just inarguably insane--all of which means that he was OOC in one way or another--and I was totally fine with reading all 20+ chapters and enjoying the stories. Yet with these particular fics, all I could think of was that THIS WASN'T MY TYPE OF HARRY. I usually love crossovers, yet when I read that one Gundam Wing/Harry Potter crossover, the moment HEERO-the-perfect-soldier-YUY, of all people, started babbling and acting like an insecure Valley-girl teen gushing over Harry Potter, I had to close the page. I could not do it. It wasn't even that it was badly written or horribly formatted. I just couldn't get over how WRONG the characterization seemed to me personally. Maybe it was the way the stories were written, but that all ten of the stories I chose to read had the same problem for me is a little strange......

But that's just me, I guess. I mean, I don't profess to know my favorite characters inside and out, but unless there's a good reason for the OOC-ness, I'm hard put to read through the whole story. I mean, I know it's fanfiction, and the characters themselves are fictional, but doesn't everybody have their own perception of their favorite fandom characters?

On a good note, I just read E.M. Snape's latest chapter of In Blood Only, and as usual, I am impressed by the complex characterization that goes on in that story, especially Snape's thought processes---he really is paranoid about everything, seeing plots everywhere, yet his change towards Harry was so gradual that you don't notice until later that all his delusions and machinations were actually resulting in him being closer to his son. I'm not sure what kind of father Snape can be to Harry, considering his current methods and behavior with regards to Harry, and the undeniable....darkness......in him that enables him to easily fit in with the Death Eaters. I keep having the thought of him immediately and callously seeking vengeance for any slight against Harry and in the end driving Harry away in his over-zealous...possessiveness?....protectiveness? Not that he hasn't attempted that already. Ah, I love these type of Snape-as-Harry's-father fics, well written, complex, and full of believable angst and suffering. ^_^

So Cold

On a new note, why is it so cold lately? This change of weather is so annoying, first it's hot as summer, then it's back to winter. Brrrrrrrrr.........too cold, must get back to bed.

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