Those exist in every fandom, alas (I'm thinking of the crowd that advocates "the Phantom was a poor persecuted innocent, and we will prove this by explaining how everyone he threatened or murdered was evil and perverted"). When people become passionate advocates for a given character, they have a tendency to try to put them on the right side of every argument... even if this results in a version of the character that's totally unrecognisable from the canon that supposedly made them fans in the first place.
So true. Though I honestly would rather deal with crazy Erik fangirls than crazy Snape fangirls.
On the other hand, like anyone else, he doesn't see *himself* as the villain and probably finds his own actions entirely justified, so the challenge in fan-fiction is to show the gap between self-perception and reality without simply cheating and writing a saintly misunderstood Snape...
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So true. Though I honestly would rather deal with crazy Erik fangirls than crazy Snape fangirls.
On the other hand, like anyone else, he doesn't see *himself* as the villain and probably finds his own actions entirely justified, so the challenge in fan-fiction is to show the gap between self-perception and reality without simply cheating and writing a saintly misunderstood Snape...
*nods*