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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.)

Comments

[anglican-druid.livejournal.com]

I used to write fanfic. It helped me to get out of a writing block that dried up my fiction-writing for about five years, after having written stories since I was a kid. Yes, I wrote slash, and yes, I felt empowered, mainly just by having the courage to write erotic stuff. After writing in a number of different fandoms, including Harry Potter, I moved on to writing original fiction again, with a clearer idea of what I wanted to do as a writer and how to do it. It's not so much the *writing* that's insane, at times, as the obsession with the books or tv show, with the actors, with what the author does or doesn't do that the reader wants her to do, with the subtext and the hidden meanings, and finally, with the fandom itself, with who knows whom, who talks to whom, who rooms together at conventions, and who's a BNF (Big Name Fan) and who's a lowly nobody.

That said, while I'm grateful for what I learned from writing fanfic, Harry Potter fans are batshit insane. Don't let this (very biased) article trouble you.

[sherarara.livejournal.com]

Harry Potter fans are batshit insane.

Fuckin' A.