To be fair, I wasn't consiously aware of all this when I started writing "Secrets." One reason I write fanfiction is to figure out how I feel about canon; it's often easier for me to think in stories than in essays. :-)
But yeah, I always thought it was odd for CoS to revolve so completely around Ginny when she was so nearly nonexistent onscreen. It's as if the story has a gaping hole where its center should be. And around GoF or OotP, when I figured that Ginny was going to end up as Harry's major love interest, I thought, "Hey, they have a parallel with his connection to Voldemort and her year with Tom; that's cool. ...But wait a minute, all that stuff about the diary was played down so much it's hard to point at it and say Ginny's anything like Harry's equal. That's bad planning."
So the structural awkwardness came first, and was what I was consciously trying to fix -- I wanted to tell the other half of the story. The moral implications didn't hit me until later.
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Date: 2008-11-09 07:21 pm (UTC)But yeah, I always thought it was odd for CoS to revolve so completely around Ginny when she was so nearly nonexistent onscreen. It's as if the story has a gaping hole where its center should be. And around GoF or OotP, when I figured that Ginny was going to end up as Harry's major love interest, I thought, "Hey, they have a parallel with his connection to Voldemort and her year with Tom; that's cool. ...But wait a minute, all that stuff about the diary was played down so much it's hard to point at it and say Ginny's anything like Harry's equal. That's bad planning."
So the structural awkwardness came first, and was what I was consciously trying to fix -- I wanted to tell the other half of the story. The moral implications didn't hit me until later.