#wolfstar clichès

[alltheyoungmoons]

welcome to another chapter of

WOLFSTAR HISTORIOGRAPHY

the year is 2002 (actually - the page was first archived in 2002, so it's probably older). Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire has been out for two years, four words igniting every professional shipper's imagination - Lie Low at Lupin's, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix isn't going to come out for another year (blissful ignorance!), and you're probably a teenager with a good deal of spare time and a home internet connection (lucky you!) so what do you do? you write fanfiction, of course. and you're not the only one. in fact, there are so many fanfictions of this pair that you begin to see patterns and repetitions, so much so that you can compile a list. and this is what that is.

i found this link while perusing fanlore.org and i find it so fascinating to read how much the clichès have changed throughout the years, and equally fascinating how some have stuck. we have so much more vital canon information about the characters now - when people now lament the fact that we "make up characters" from just one single mention in a single sentence on a single page in a book - this is proof that fans have always done that! like if the tropes in this lists are clichès it means that they were extremely popular at the time, so imagine going back to 2002 and telling one of these writers that actually, Sirius is the Pureblood French-speaker and Lupin the halfblood... it would probably cause a fucking shitstorm.