Subject: Harry Potter/Ivanhoe crossver
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Posted on: 2011-08-22 23:36:00 UTC

AKA "I knew it was a bad idea. Why did I go looking for Ivanhoe fanfic?"

Now, in principle I don't think this is a bad idea. I couldn't pull it off, but I have only casual knowledge of Harry Potter and don't really care enough to put the effort into it. And here lies my "Why?"

The author gave as his/her first justification for why he/she had written this fic that it would require no creative input - just merging Scott's plot with Rowling's characters.

Why? Why, author, do you claim to love Ivanhoe and yet say that giving it an entirely new cast will require no effort? The only way that would be possible would be to simply do a find-and-replace on the names, but then why even bother? If I want to read Ivanhoe, I'll read Ivanhoe. You say it's an AU and you care more about characterisation than canon (by which I assume you mean plot) but how then can you say that this will require no creative effort on your part?

Why, author?

(And why do I keep being surprised and upset by this sort of thing?)

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