FF: gender balance/strong women

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 15277

Susan wrote:
> 
> I don't read fan fiction usually...I've read two or three?
> 
> So therefore I was inquiring about whether there were 
romantic/erotic 
> fan fics about McGonagall or any of the other adult women.
> 

Yes, there are.

There are definitely many more hetero or m/m fics than f/f, which I 
put down almost entirely to the comparative dearth of female 
characters.  Not surprisingly, Hermione is featured most 
often--whether in romantic/erotic fics or others.  I've run across 
fics starring McGonagall, Lily, Narcissa . . . you start to scrape the 
bottom of the barrel pretty soon when you try to write about adult 
women from HP.  I'm sure people have written about Hooch, Pomfrey, the 
mysterious Sinistra, but I can only take so much extrapolation, 
myself--I like to read about characters whom I know a bit better than 
that.

Amy Z