NOT separating "fact" from "fiction"

[Rosmerta]

"Sam Brown" <find_sam at h...> wrote:
> > There's a sort of mental divide in my head, which separates 
> > Canon, Fanon and the Film. 
> And Ebony wrote: I've read so much fanfic that I think in my head 
there's separate 
> bins labeled "fanon" and "canon".  

I admire you both for your mental orderliness, but please take pity 
on those of us with tireder brains who can't keep those divides from 
decaying. My own quasi-humorous personal experience: one of the early 
(and, as a result, very few) fanfics I read was something 
called.....I think.....Not Unless You're Serious. Something like 
that. Basic plot: Young bisexual Sirius seducing young overearnest, 
overshy Lupin, featuring, at the climatic moment, Sirius casually 
producing a tube of K-Y or some similar goo. That's fine, I'm an 
adult, anal lubrication, it's cool. I keep reading. 

Flash forward 2 months, when I'm rereading aloud GoF to my 7-yr-old 
and we get to the wonderful scene where our hero is first reunited 
with, and advised by, his much beloved, fugitive Godfather. As I'm 
reading along, all I can think of at that point is, tube o' lube! 
tube o' lube! It's not a place you need to go mentally, especially 
with your own offspring. But once you've read something like that, 
however awkward, how can you forget it? 

~Rosmerta