Well, why don't you look at The Tough Guide To Harry Potter by Rugi and Gwena as a starting point? This, of course, is a parody of Dianne Wynne-Jones' Tough Guide To Fantasyland which was itself a parody of the Rough Guides while simultaneously drawing heavily on The Evil Overlord List which is based upon the premise of filling "holes, inconsistencies and dangling pieces" in classic sf films such as Star Wars.
I think that the prevelance of Potterfic also has a lot to do with its lack of philosophical underpinnings. When an author has a consistent core philosophy, ficcers tend to be much more hestiant in their writing, because unless it's done well or explicitly philosophically centered, the fic tends to lack that core component that makes up so much of the canon. I'm thinking specifically of Diane Duane's Young Wizards world, which is set for much the same age group (anyone who's got their willful suspension of dibelief blinkers on) and has an entire existence's worth of backstory to play with, but which also has definite moral themes beyond HP's rather trite "good versus evil" and... well... that's pretty much it. And even the good characters are rather morally sketchy at times. Writers have so much fun with HP because it's a morality-neutral zone; one can stil one's own philosophy into a pre-made universe and just have fun with it.
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Well, why don't you look at The Tough Guide To Harry Potter by Rugi and Gwena as a starting point? This, of course, is a parody of Dianne Wynne-Jones' Tough Guide To Fantasyland which was itself a parody of the Rough Guides while simultaneously drawing heavily on The Evil Overlord List which is based upon the premise of filling "holes, inconsistencies and dangling pieces" in classic sf films such as Star Wars.
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