Third person limited seems to be the most common choice I get to see in the (HP) fandom. That preference could be partly due to the canon, and partly belong to this culture in general.
One reason why I’m so attached to my old style is that I actually keep writing the same story: short stories which are all part of the same JKR’s-first-five-books-compliant universe and my Remus’s life in it. For instance I’ve almost always written Sirius’s voice in the first person. And now I remember that it all started because in the very first short stories, set post-Azkaban and pre-OotP, he was unable to think of Remus’s name, which had to be replaced by (the only) “he” in the text. When I wrote my first James/Lily-centric fics I decided to give them third-person voices, partly because, unlike in slash, I didn’t have to fear confusion with pronouns or too frequent mentions of names. Such fears have probably been stupid, as I’ve understood when above talking to someone who’s written even self-cest in third-person POV with no such problems. :)
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Date: 2019-12-30 03:10 pm (UTC)Third person limited seems to be the most common choice I get to see in the (HP) fandom. That preference could be partly due to the canon, and partly belong to this culture in general.
One reason why I’m so attached to my old style is that I actually keep writing the same story: short stories which are all part of the same JKR’s-first-five-books-compliant universe and my Remus’s life in it. For instance I’ve almost always written Sirius’s voice in the first person. And now I remember that it all started because in the very first short stories, set post-Azkaban and pre-OotP, he was unable to think of Remus’s name, which had to be replaced by (the only) “he” in the text. When I wrote my first James/Lily-centric fics I decided to give them third-person voices, partly because, unlike in slash, I didn’t have to fear confusion with pronouns or too frequent mentions of names. Such fears have probably been stupid, as I’ve understood when above talking to someone who’s written even self-cest in third-person POV with no such problems. :)