Well, that is indeed interesting! It reassured me to know that you intended it to be that way, and it wasn't just an unobserved shift.
It's interesting, because, it seems like, to you(with a handy little segue back on topic), Maud was more MarySueish when she was being the action heroine, whereas I was bothered by the self-effacing Maud. I felt that as she became more 'normal', she became an easier vessel for reader self-insertion. (Because we readers, of course, love Snape, despite him being useless and sour and not holding up his half of the relationship) ;D . Of course, just my opinion.
Believe it or not, I do know what you mean about the characters telling you things. It's a great feeling, when you know that you've given your characters enough life that they start wanting to do things on their own, and don't care what you have to say about it. ;D
Since I'm here, I'll take the moment to ask if you'd mind if I did a more comprehensive review - I thought I'd ask first, because maybe you don't want such a thing at this point in your life, a long ramble about an oldish story you're happy to let be. :)
And, to scuttle radically out of relevance, I am reminded for no reason of the Snape/Lily argument that was going on a few posts back. Somethings, I think, you can just predict from canon. Before I was halfway through PS/SS I announced to myself that Ron and Hermione would get together in some way eventually - by the Law of Sidekicks. ;) Snape, in canon, has a role - 'annoying and irrational teacher who foils and irritates students whilst being essential on the side of good'. He's the embodiment of the unfair and unlikeable teacher. Such a character does not have previous romantic relationships with the hero's mother. They just...don't. This is the slightly sketchy logic I use to reassure myself...and, now, others! :)
Right, I'll stop filling up your LJ space, and even put a name on my post this time.
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Date: 2003-03-29 08:39 am (UTC)It's interesting, because, it seems like, to you(with a handy little segue back on topic), Maud was more MarySueish when she was being the action heroine, whereas I was bothered by the self-effacing Maud. I felt that as she became more 'normal', she became an easier vessel for reader self-insertion. (Because we readers, of course, love Snape, despite him being useless and sour and not holding up his half of the relationship) ;D . Of course, just my opinion.
Believe it or not, I do know what you mean about the characters telling you things. It's a great feeling, when you know that you've given your characters enough life that they start wanting to do things on their own, and don't care what you have to say about it. ;D
Since I'm here, I'll take the moment to ask if you'd mind if I did a more comprehensive review - I thought I'd ask first, because maybe you don't want such a thing at this point in your life, a long ramble about an oldish story you're happy to let be. :)
And, to scuttle radically out of relevance, I am reminded for no reason of the Snape/Lily argument that was going on a few posts back. Somethings, I think, you can just predict from canon. Before I was halfway through PS/SS I announced to myself that Ron and Hermione would get together in some way eventually - by the Law of Sidekicks. ;) Snape, in canon, has a role - 'annoying and irrational teacher who foils and irritates students whilst being essential on the side of good'. He's the embodiment of the unfair and unlikeable teacher. Such a character does not have previous romantic relationships with the hero's mother. They just...don't. This is the slightly sketchy logic I use to reassure myself...and, now, others! :)
Right, I'll stop filling up your LJ space, and even put a name on my post this time.
~Chresimos