Half-Blood Prince: How It Affects My Harry Potter Fanfiction

All right, this post discusses the new Harry Potter novel and it how it affects by on-going Harry Potter fanfiction. If you haven't read Harry Potter and the Halfblood Prince yet, stay far away from this post.

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All right, if you're still reading, I assume you're all right with being Spoiled. I'm going to post in my Other Blog soon, discussing how I felt about the book itself, this post is how Half-Blood Prince affects my Harry Potter fanfiction.

First, of all, no matter what direction the book goes, I'm never going to write Harry/Ginny or Ron/Hermione, at least not without it being angst. I'm a Harry/Hermione shipper and that's not going to change.

Secondly, even though in now states for sure that Blaise Zabini is male, he's staying a girl in my stories. I'm not going back and changing the stories where Blaise appears or is mentioned and totally changing the plot in some cases. It's not happening. So, in the world of my stories, Blaise is a girl.

Third, I'm still in shock over Snape's betrayal. I love Snape and in my world, he's not evil. I just can't even wrap my head around it yet. I just can't. So for now, I'm going to ignore it. Just like I'm going to ignore Dumbledore's Death.

Now let's see how it affects my current stories and series:

The Girl Who Lived: Obviously the behaviour of Snape and Draco differs from the characters as I've written them in this story. That's okay, this story was already pretty AU and I'd decided that as of the end of Goblet of Fire it was going to vear wildly away from the cannon, so while a few things from HBP will make their way into this series, my version of Book 6 (Book 5 as well) will be entirely different.

The Betrayed: I rewrote this story after OotP to incoporate details of taht story, I'm not rewriting it again. So, this is now firmly an AU. Everything after OotP did not happen in this stories universe.

This Life: This was an AU from start to finish and several of the characters were already changed. So again, ignore the events of HBP. Some details from HBP may be added, but the story certainly won't follow the plot.

Unbreakable Bonds: This story was set in sixth year, so think of it as an alternate sixth year. The events of HBP will only have minimal impact on this particular story. I might incorporate some of the evnets in, but certainly not all of them.

The Darkest of Times: Perhaps the only one I could tamper with and fit into the current stream of things. I haven't decided if I will or not. Stay posted for information on that.

Memories of the Heart.cwk: This one's been an AU since OotP was released. I couldn't fit details reveald in OotP into this and I'm not even going to bother with HBP. Especially, since I'm working on a prequel which will be an alternate fifth and sixth year.

Return to Childhood: Again this story is actaully supposed to be set in Sixth Year, so think of it as an alternate Sixth Year. There's no way I can make this story fit the new cannon, nor do I wish to.

Friends and Memories: Like Memories of the Heart this one's been an AU since OotP was released. It's even more so now. After all the book version of Seamus' mother and my fictional version seem very different and the same is obviously true of my version of Snape. So, this is an AU series.

There you have it, with one possible exception, my stories are not going to be impacted too much by the events of Half-blood Prince, I might borrow a thing or two from the book, but for the most part I'm just going to pretend I never read it.

That's not to say I'm not going to write some post-HBP stories, I probably will. But, for my current pieces, including ones I haven't posted yet, I'm just going to go on as I was, never-minding that the stories no longer fit in cannon.