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

[ER <ression@hotmail.com>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "meira_q <mb2910 at h...>" 
<mb2910 at h...> wrote:

> ER:
> > "bel" wrote -
> 
> ME:
> I'm usually known as Meira, thankyouverymuch...
> 

Oops, sorry 'bout that, must have got my threads crossed.


> Anyway, Hagrid says to Harry when they're in Diagon Alley buying 
> Harry's school stuff (and *not* Ron, while waiting to be sorted - 
> TCTMNBN: "There's not a single witch or wizard who went bad who 

TCTMNBN????

> 
> And remember Peter Pettigrew? I bet 10 imaginary Galleons that he 
> wasn't the only Gryffindor who went bad.

Yes, interesting, interesting.

> 
> ME:
> > >And another thing that would offend me is if Blaize turned out 
to 
> be 
> > a girl. (there are many other things, but these are just my 
> > conceptions of the characters, and I would go on reading the 
series 
> > regardless, just cos I like it :)).
> 
> ER: 
> > Blaize???
> > 
> 
> ME:
> Sorry, misspelled his/her name (I can never remember if it's with 
> a 's' or with a 'z').
> I meant Blaise Zabini
> 

That's why I couldn't find him/her online! Why would you care about 
his/her sex? So far all I've been able to track down is that he/she 
got put into Slytherin ...



> ME: 
> What are Corn Laws?

I forget, but they were very boring at age 14. Probably to do with 
the English land-owning classes keeping the price of corn artifically 
high, which lead to much starvation among the working classes. Or 
something.

> Urgh... next semester one of the things we're supposed to read *is* 
> Jane Eyre. I've avoided that book my whole life as if I were 
roaming 
> around after lights out trying not to run into Mrs. Norris ^-^.

Tough! Pretend to break a leg. Or really break a leg (c. Ron 
Weasley :)

> ME:
> Didn't JKR say in one of her interviews that she didn't write stuff 
> based on what would upset people and what wouldn't?
> 

That's a bit mean of her, if we're talking about the younger readers?

> 
> ME:
> You've never read Snitch!, have you? *g*
> Excellently and brilliantly in-character and totally AU (Alternate 
> Universe), and just wuvly and wonderful, and very slashy and 
nothing 
> like what JKR probably had in mind.
> 

Nope, though I meant to say earlier that I can stand any amount of 
slash if it's wrapped around with humour. So, shoot me down again ;)

> Amazing what snipping

Isn't it :))

> I *never ever* went through the night roaming the house bleary eyed 
>in my pj's, trying everything from drinking milk to watching 
>the "snow" on TV to try sleeping.

Actually in all my 40+ years I've never ever done this. A tense 30 
minutes lying awake perhaps, but then zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Phew.


> Meira (who hopes no one will call her "bel" again)

I'll try, I'll try (with apologies to the real "Bel").


ER