slash (was Fanfic yes or no and why? + Food answers

[Rita Winston]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Joanne Collins <joannec at l...> wrote:

> I'm not terribly into f/f slash in this fandom, mostly because I 
> don't see Hermione as a sexual creature, and if I did, I think 
> I'd see her with a man.

I don't think f/f in this fandom HAS to be about Hermione. If I 
weren't too lazy to do serious research into (wizarding) daily life 
(in Britain) when my late mother was a young woman (the 1940s), I 
would write a story about McGonagall and Hooch getting together.

Another idea is, I wrote "Cedric's Funeral" both to display my idea 
that Cho is a Nice Person and to set up the possibility (for anyone 
who wants to run with it) that Harry and Cho STILL COULD get 
together -- not merely IN SPITE OF Cedric's death, but brought 
together by their shared grief. If only Harry could get over his 
intimacy issues enough to be willing to SHARE his grief. 

The way the above ties into slash is, if Harry isn't interested in 
comforting Cho, GINNY might well be.

> And the character I most want to see slashed who isn't is Bill 
> Weasley. I absolutely fell head over heels for him in GoF, for 
> some reason. Probably my thing for redheads.

I think EVERYONE fell for Bill, including (in a non-sexual way) 
Harry, who noticed well enough to tell us that Bill is "cool" and 
good-looking, and also watched him being competent.

When I was arguing that it is possible (not likely, not required, 
just possible) for JKR to introduce a token gay character (for 
teaching her readers even more diversity) without depicting any 
physical displays of affection or adding a new major character at 
this late date, my first suggestion was Bill Weasley. A lot of 
Weasleys will be interacting among themselves as they all fight the 
Dark Side, and merely having a war on is not enough to stop Molly 
from nagging her oldest son that he should marry some nice young 
witch and give her grandchildren. There could be a comical scene in 
which Bill, exasperated, tells her that he has already found the 
person with whom he wants to spend the rest of his life, and it isn't 
a witch. Molly leaps to the conclusion that Bill is in love with a 
Muggle girl and starts scolding him for thinking she would be 
prejudiced against a Muggle. "Not a Muggle, Mum," Bill says gently. 
Molly jumps to another conclusion and tries not to act horrified: "A 
veela???"

"No, Mum, a wizard."

Molly sits down hard in her chair and the rest of the story is about 
the Weasleys getting use to the idea of their new brother-in-law. 
**I** like the idea that Ron is utterly freaked out / grossed out 
about it, and Hermione and Harry educate him about respecting 
diversity and anti-homophobia. Hermione has all the good liberal 
ideas, and Harry saw on TV about the Muggles have laws against 
descriminating against gays and only Dursleys get rude and nasty 
about it. Preachy, but in character.