Snape, Lupin, and babies
Now, I really should be working on my Trading Places fics (which are actually going pretty well, although one is turning out to be epic-length), but I got distracted when I was browsing the Metafandom links the other day, and stumbled across this essay by thelana: "My 7 reasons why babyfic is a bad idea". Now, I didn't even know that "babyfic" warranted its own genre, but it's exactly what it sounds like: fanfiction where the main character(s) has/have a baby. I don't want to diss the author, who doesn't seem to be singling out HP stories, and her argument is quite reasonable. She makes it clear that it's her own personal opinion, which she's not trying to force on anyone else, and she acknowledges that there exceptions to any rules, and that there are kick ass babyfics out there.
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