[HPFGU-OTChatter] Slash fiction

[Kathryn Cawte]

Stacey said -
 
There seems to be a plethora of Harry Potter slash fiction. I wonder 
why that is.
 



Well let's be fair there's slash fiction out there for anything you can
think of (and several things you don't want to contemplate too)

As for HP - until OoP there was a distinct dearth of well developed female
characters, if you wanted to write a story involving romance without
introducing an original character you really had Minerva, Hermione or Ginny
for the girls (and since the last two are obviously a couple that rather
screws you up <g>) <-- that's a joke btw, although with all the fuss people
make trying to decide whether Hermione will end up with Harry or Ron or go
insane and marry Draco I would like to see the two of them walking off into
the sunset hand in hand :) For the guys you have Harry, Ron, Neville, Draco,
Fred, George, Percy, Oliver then you've got the older generation Sirius,
Remus, Severus, Hagrid, Dumbledore, Lucius .... Of course if you drop back
to MWPP era we also have James and Lily and peter

I'm sure I'm missing some, and for a lot of these there's some kind of
strong emotion involved. As long as there's emotion positive or negative a
good author can create a believable relationship. It's really not hate
between characters that kills a ship but indifference.

K