I basically made this because I was always under the impression that within fiction, anything can happen because it's from your imagination.

Many people on here were saying that it's stupid that the vampires in Twilight sparkle because vampires do not sparkle. Yet it is still a fictitious book, from Stephenie's imagination and she decided that they should.

The same goes for Harry Potter. People are always saying that it's popularity is ridiculous because magic is not real. But again, it's a fictional story and it shouldn't matter that magic isn't real in our world.

Do you think that everything goes in fiction? That nothing is out of bounds, and that everything can happen.

yep its all just imagination which all of us have in our heads and hearts

Of course! That's why it's called "fiction".

The only thing I ask is that the writing is sufficiently crafted enough for me to be able to suspend my disbelief. Anything can happen but the writer needs to make me think it is possible.

Yes and no. There's only so far that I can suspend my disbelief. There are certain things that are so ingrained in me that it won't matter how the writer presents it, my mind will simply not accept it. The whole sparkling thing in Twilight for example. I can accept it as a characteristic of a Twilight vampire, but it made me view Edward as a both weaker and less attractive. It doesn't matter how many times Meyer tells me he's strong and hot, my brain simply equates diamond like sparking with little girls - probably why I prefer Jacob.

I have the same problem with certain aspects of Harry Potter. Rowling can go on an on about how James Potter changed and how his picking on Snape was more like boyish pranking than bulling, but my mind can't get past the fact that it was nasty and mean and that someone who acted in such a way and only ever seemed to get positive feedback for that kind of behaviour and hung around people who shared his attitude would simply not change.

It depends, though. Even fiction needs to have rules, or at least reasons why things happen the way they do.

Except for the fact that Harmony didn't happen.

But if you exploit the "Anything can happen in fiction" rule into something ridiculous, it'd just be...well ridiculous.

There needs to be boundaries to fiction to make it make sense - rules and limits the characters have to stay with.