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http://www.theage.com.au/news/education-news/harry-potter-and-the-chamber-of-zealots/2006/08/18/1155408026089.html

The article is about Lumos, the Harry Potter convention.

This part really gets me:

In reference to writing Harry Potter gay slash fiction...

"It's empowering. We are reversing the gender roles. We are saying we like porn: deal with it," Rachael says.

So...what you're saying is that to take a fictional character that you didn't make up- an adolescent character at that- and write stories about said character in pornographic scenes with another character that you didn't make up...is...empowering?

Please. The stupid, it hurts.

If you like porn so much and want to write about it...oh, I dunno...call me crazy, but why on earth not make up your own characters- preferably adult ones- and write stories about them?
(Yes, yes I know, there are adult characters in the Harry Potter book, whatever. I never really understood people's desperate wanting to write fanfiction anyway...and some of the writers that I've seen are so unbelievably talented, why not write their own original stuff? Just. Don't. Get. It.)

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[nofate301.livejournal.com]

they're called fangirls...the love to make those characters they love...love the cock. It's not new. Fuck it's older than me or you! I have friends who write video game characters gay. Buffy chraracters, Angel...I've seen brothers from a tv show going on it. X-men...no one is immune. It's always going to happen. People who want to see what they want will write it and then publish it because they thing others are going to want to see snape take harry's wand.

You are the minority in this renee. It will never make sense because some people can't write the history...they stink at back story, but give them a background and history and they will write for their life. It's the way things are. And if people don't like it? Well then close the webpage and go somewhere else.