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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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You asked "why not make up your own characters?" I think that the fic-writer's use of an existing character is akin to my embroidering a dress for a renaissance festival. I scrolled around on the web until I found a motif I liked, and then adjusted it and tweaked it and played with it until I had a design I liked. I'm nowhere near good enough an artist to have a design spring fully formed from my own mind...but I'm good enough to create original work from an existing frame. Same thing holds for a fic-writer. They are not a good enough author to create a whole, multidimensional character like Harry or Snape or even Petunia Dursley. They ARE good enough to take an existing character with interesting hobbies and flaws and turn them into an original piece of work.