Fanfics with slash & sex...I don't get it

[maria_kirilenko <maria_kirilenko@yahoo.com>]

Hi, my name is Maria and I'm new!

This discussion of slash fanfics interested me a lot, and I thought 
I'd contribute my 2 knuts to it also.

I started reading HP fanfiction pretty recently, although I liked X-
Files FF several years ago and even wrote some. But I'd never tried 
reading slash because I felt I'd be bothered by it. 

Nevertheless, two or three weeks ago I read a PG-rated (starting 
small!) Sirius/Remus story and was hooked! There are so many really 
great love stories out there, and I'm a hopeless romantic. I don't 
look at it as a homo- or hetero-sexual relationship, but just as a 
relationship between 2 people, regardless of their sex.

Although I wouldn't like JKR to make it out like that in the books, I 
enjoy the Remus/Sirius pairing in FF. See, I love Remus Lupin and 
would really like him to be happy (well, Sirius too :)), but I don't 
enjoy reading FF with non-canon characters (hate 'em <g>), and JKR 
doesn't have any female characters of the right age, and I've never 
seen a good Lupin/Hermione fic (BTW, if you know a good one, could 
you tell me?)

This is getting long, but I'd just like to say again that lots of 
slash stories (wouldn't vouch for the Draco/Harry ones, since I've 
never read one and don't really want to) are really nice, mild ones, 
even those that are R-rated, just as lovely as many non-slash love 
stories.

Maria