[HPforGrownups] shippers/URL/mystery?

[Aberforth's Goat]

No: HPFGUIDX 9628

Emily wrote,

> I would like to suggest, as a devil's advocate, that it's more fun not to
> know. Which is more fun to watch: a soap opera, where everything takes
place
> on the surface, and everyone is always getting it on, or the X-Files,
where
> nothing ever, ever happened? I think I prefer *not* to know, thereby
> maintaining the potential of all sorts of interesting 'ships. But OTOH I
am
> gratified to know that I'm not alone in finding Sires intriguing... ;)

Actually, as much fun as it is to joke about, I think reading fanfic has
actually given me a new sort of passion for literature (and not just Jo's).
Watching people write a book, getting to chatter with the authors,
beta-reading, contemplating (in one's secret heart of hearts) some little
project of one's own--that makes reading a whole different experience.

The world of fanfic has shown me that a books don't just turn up in cabbage
patches; they're part of somebody's life and personality. They're also
something anybody (even me!) could do. Just having that feeling gave my last
re-read of A Farewell to Arms a completely different feel. If nothing else,
because I was suddenly reading prose that NOT just anybody (least of all
me!) could do.

So I'm all for fanfic--at least so long as *my* wife doesn't start swooning
over that gaunt guy with the dirty hair ...

Baaaaaa!

Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray)
_______________________

"My own brother, Aberforth, was prosecuted for practising
inappropriate charms on a goat. It was all over the papers,
but did Aberforth hide? No he did not! He held his head high."