December Daily: headcanon

[resonant]

veronamay asks: what's your all-time favourite piece of fanon/headcanon? Describe in detail, including reasons why you love it. Can be something you came up with, or someone else's that you've adopted--just something you really love.

You know what's making me really happy right now? I've been gone from Harry Potter fandom for a long time, but I still sometimes go off into reveries in which Snape actually survived the series and went on to actually have a real life.

Back in the day, there were hundreds of stories on this topic -- I fondly remember some very late ones of dementordelta's. I'm out of touch; maybe people are still writing them.

Sorry -- I'm not really sufficiently fannishly connected right now to have a lot of headcanons regarding fandoms that are still getting new source material, except that I share with a lot of people the absolute conviction of Captain America's bisexuality.

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[copracat]

but I still sometimes go off into reveries in which Snape actually survived the series and went on to actually have a real life.

People most certainly do still write these stories. The Secret Snarry Swap, posting on snape_potter now, is dominated by them. I'm very fond of the presumed dead for years, found by Harry for plot reasons ones most of all. There are very many fewer epilogue-compliant ones with Ginny-bashing as well. I haven't had to back button grumpily out of any of the stories I've started reading yet. Win!