I had to read books six and seven to work on this AU. The divergence event is in book six when Draco actually succeeds in killing Dumbledore. (I think that the true divergence is in the character of Draco's parents in that they raised a child who could become a murderer. That drives some other differences later in the timeline.) At any rate, things go rather badly for Draco after that. The fic is set something like six years later, when the war is finally over.
Romances do get treated as product. The books in various lines of category romances seem to be treated as interchangeable, as if it doesn't matter who wrote a particular book, just which label is on it. I've seen series that involve the same characters but that have each volume written by a different person. The quality really does vary a lot. The writers generally have the discipline to focus on the same things, but the details of the focus differ. It's a little weird as a reading experience.
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Date: 2008-08-11 01:02 pm (UTC)Romances do get treated as product. The books in various lines of category romances seem to be treated as interchangeable, as if it doesn't matter who wrote a particular book, just which label is on it. I've seen series that involve the same characters but that have each volume written by a different person. The quality really does vary a lot. The writers generally have the discipline to focus on the same things, but the details of the focus differ. It's a little weird as a reading experience.