No superheroes!
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:date: 2020-07-12T21:18:49
:category: faith
:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit

(my comments on “`the thread on reddit`_”)

.. _`the thread on reddit`:
    https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/hpvwqr/postwar_antagonists/

First of all, you should avoid the dark trap of all
adventure/fantasy stories: my story must be more dramatic than
the previous one, my heroes and my antagonist must be more
significant than the previous one. It is not enough to save
hero’s girlfriend, now you must save whole village.  It is not
enough to save a village anymore, now you must save New York.
Next time it is whole nation, whole Earth, universe, and some
stories went even beyond that. The end result is a disaster
like “`Avengers: Endgame`_”, which is just the catwalk show
of all of their heroes and antagonists without any story and
any characters. And yes, it is just an evidence of the total
depravity of humanity (as if we haven’t got enough of them)
that this silliness was the highest grossing film of the series
(well, I haven’t seen any other of them, so I can still keep
hope that other ones were less stupid than this one).

So, whenever you read “worse than Voldemort”, run away,
somebody is victim of this syndrome. Even “`Inner Demons by
serendipity_50`_” fell into this trap, and it is the first
fanfiction story I’ve read, which persuaded me that it is
possible for amateurs to write for free literature worthy of
reading. Fortunately, the adventure story there is just in
the background keeping Harry busy, it is not central of the
whole story. And some sub-stories of it are genuinely good.

My point is that you don’t need literally the Earth being
shattered to carry on your story, because the story is `the
only thing which matters`_.  Who cares for the fate of Romeo
and Juliet other than few of their bereaved relatives? And
couple of hundred millions of happy viewers.

Having said that, there is still a lot of what could be the
plot of post-war adventure story (like any time in the human
history):

-  hunting runaway Death Eaters (e.g., “`Hunters and Prey
   by Northumbrian`_”),
-  other resolving some post-war issues: I hoped for somebody to rewrite
   “Augurey” into `something like that`_ … (ignore the
   inane Harmony-related discussion below, that was not the point),
-  you still can have regular detective stories like “`Friends
   and Foes by Northumbrian`_”, “`M.I.T.: Muggle Interface Team
   - Haunted House: Dead by Northumbrian`_”, it is actually what
   “`Strangers at Drakeshaugh by Northumbrian`_” is all about as well,
-  and any other plot for any other story you can imagine.

.. _`Avengers: Endgame`:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Endgame

.. _`Inner Demons by serendipity_50`:
    https://archiveofourown.org/works/601124

.. _`the only thing which matters`:
   {filename}what-wrong-with-Ginny.rst

.. _`Hunters and Prey by Northumbrian`:
    https://archiveofourown.org/works/1857084

.. _`something like that`:
    https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/g0hwbu/augurey_revisited/

.. _`Friends and Foes by Northumbrian`:
    https://archiveofourown.org/works/3068435

.. _`M.I.T.: Muggle Interface Team - Haunted House: Dead by Northumbrian`:
    https://archiveofourown.org/works/1650713

.. _`Strangers at Drakeshaugh by Northumbrian`:
    https://archiveofourown.org/works/1623053