SHIP Harry's Sexual preference- Sue

[jeffl1965]

No: HPFGUIDX 79888

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn Cawte" <kcawte at b...> 
wrote:
> 
> Well we know Seamus seems to be fairly outgoing and sociable, also 
>he's Irish so people assume that an older Seamus is going to enjoy 
>alcohol (not that I'm implying all Irishmen are drunks but they do 
>have a bit of a reputation for lively partying and partaking of 
>alcoholic beverages). So we've got party-animal!Seamus without 
>straying too much from canon - it's only a small step from there to 
>slut!Seamus. It's similar to the reasoning that gives us slut!
>Sirius - Marauder-era Sirius is young, sexy, long haired, and
> owns a flying motorbike ergo he must be the school slut ....
> 

    Yeah, I can see Party-Animal!Seamus fairly easily. :) In a way, I 
think the way that JRK wrote him, is almost insulting with her having 
him wanting to make rum at age 11. To me, that implies that he's 
already a drinker, which might be true, but not something that she 
should point out early on as part of his make-up.

   The same can be said about how she presents the Weasley family. 
Their poor, red-haired, and have a large family. Sounds like a stab 
at the Irish to me. Perhaps not totally intentional, but still.

    I can understand about Sirius. He seems like he was the cock of 
the walk when he was younger. His talks with Harry in OOtP shows that 
perhaps he and James might've have lots of adventures making mayhem 
and chasing the girls. :)



> And it's a nice dynamic to write about from a fairly cliched 
>romance pov - one partner is the outgoing slut, beloved by all the 
>girls and most of the boys (Seamus or Sirius) and the other is 
>shyer, more reserved aritstic and/or intellectual and quite possibly 
>overlooked by the female population (Dean or Remus). So then you can 
>have both of them wondering whether the other would ever be 
>interested in them and you get a nice dose of angst leading up to 
>your happy romantic ending (and hot sex possibly) - can you
> tell I like first-time fics? :) 
> 
  LOL!! Yeah, I can see the first-time preferences very well. That's 
*not* a bad thing, btw. :) I guess being male, that's why the cliche' 
of one being the warrior, the other being the brain, regardless as to 
the sex of the couple, bothers me a bit. I don't really like to see 
too many stereotypes as I think it gives the youth a wrong idea about 
how things work and how they should act. Just like not all gay males 
are all limp-wristed and fem, and not all lesbians are masculine. 
Some yes, but not all.


> But no there is no real evidence for slut!Seamus at all - for all 
>we know the outgoing exterior could hide a terribly insecure 
>interior while Dean could be shagging anything with a pulse :)
> 

    I agree with that and wonder where it really came from. Seamus 
could be a lot of talk, and no action. That's fairly common amongst 
males. :) Besides, he doesn't really have anything to prove to 
anybody, so unless its just that dipping his wick all the time really 
means something to him, and if so, I would think he could spend more 
time in the loo taking care of things, and not have to worry about 
it. ;) Hmmm.... Slut!Dean? Maybe he would be asking for peeps to come 
to one of the empty classrooms to pose for him, and end up doing 
nudes and going from there? :)


> What I want to know is what is it about Seamus that leads people to 
>make the older version of him a mediwizard? Because I've seen it 
>done several times and am even doing it myself - the idea does have 
>appeal but I don't know *why*!


   Hmmm....this is just a guess on my part, but maybe with his 
clumsiness, he decided it would be a good skill to have? That's all I 
can think of, unless he wants to be the team Doctor for the Irish 
Quidditch team? I'd forgotten about that.


  Jeff