Meh Harry Potter. Let's not talk about that.

So do you think that fandom naturally gravitates to "crippled" canonical texts? I don't think I've ever heard of a fandom developing with a lot of people being engaged (euphemism for "obsessed" in many cases) by the characters, so I'm assuming there won't be much fic out there for texts that are oversupplied with quality in the plot and setting departments and undersupplied on the characterisation side (e.g. most hard sf).