slash fiction - responses part 2

[Regina <ITZregina@hanson.net>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Diana <dianasdolls at y...>" 
<dianasdolls at y...> wrote:

<I will not read and cannot understand other people's avid interest 
in writing and/or reading slash fiction about the Harry Potter 
characters, especially the three main characters. These are my 
feelings right now at this very moment with the characters as 
currently written in canon.>

Thank you for bringing this up Diana.  I can't get through a fanfic 
with the HP characters being portrayed in slash/sexual situations.

Diana:
I do not believe that people who read and/or write slash fiction are 
terrible, deranged people or anything of the sort,> 

Yes, to each his own and I prefer not to read them.


> I agree with abigailnus.  Harry, Ron and Hermione have shown 
> demonstrable interest in members of the opposite sex.  Harry's 
> enchantment by the Veela and his shy crush on Cho Chang.  Harry is 
> also aware of Ginny's crush on him and it embarrasses him.  Ron 
also > fell for the Veelas' charms at the Quidditch World Cup and 
under Fleur's charms, too.  Ron is definitely showing raging jealousy 
over Hermione's interest in Krum and obviously likes her as something 
> more than a friend. > 

There is just too much canon pointing out that they are indeed 
heterosexual.  I can't see them in other way.


Diana:  
  <And the crux of the issue is that a fanfic author stating the 
characters are now 19, 25 or 42 is > not going to prevent me from 
seeing the characters as they are now - as young teenagers.> 

Raising the age of the chracters, as of now, is not canon.  I've 
tried reading the fanfic of the trio being older and it NOT the trio 
that I know and love. 

Diana:

 <Until the next book comes out, the characters have frozen for me at 
their current ages, and I can't yet think of them as older or jumping 
in the sack with anyone, slash or het.  To reiterate, even if the 
characters are aged up in the fanfics, I can't see them as older than 
their current ages as of GoF, and the biggest reason is because I 
don't want to.   I rarely find a series of books I like this much, 
from the  characters to the settings to the writing style to the 
heroic, even  possibly epic, story arc on down.  I don't *want* to 
change the characters because I like them just as they are.> 


EXCELLENT!  I couldn't have said it better myself.

Diana:
> I should also add that I like the way the movie was cast so well 
> with regard to the characters, that I have actually begun to 
picture the actors as the characters in my mind's eye while rereading 
the books!>

Yes, the casting was spot on as far as I'm concerned and imagining 
these young, dare I say sweet, actors in these situations just make 
me, well, cringe.


As there are so many fanfic writers on here could you suggest well 
written canon fanfic that is preferably, G or PG written?  It's so 
difficult to wade through all the different kinds of fanfic that is 
out there.  I DID find one fanfic that I enjoyed.  It was written by 
Angie Astravic. http://www.fanfiction.net/profile.php?userid=9000


Gina