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Round: Harry Potter!



1. Ginny? Still a bitch. And that Oedipal thing JKR admitted to? WHY would you admit something like that? 'Yes, Harry dreams of sleeping with someone who reminds him of his mother.' NOT HELPING YOUR CASE, JO.



Corollary popular opinion: although I do think Ginny's hot. You know. Redhead. Horrible, but hot.



2. Molly Weasley is one sexy mama. And possibly a nympho.



Corollary popular opinion: Arthur's not bad either.



3. This is such an old unpopular fandom opinion that I'm chagrined that it's still an unpopular one, but here we go: People. DRACO MALFOY DOES NOT NEED YOUR APOLOGISTICS. For god's sakes, just let him be the arrogant conceited manipulative bratty bigoted stubborn stuck-up asshole you fell in love with! What's the point of redeeming him if you're going to water him down to begin with anyway?

If you think I'm saying Draco is EEEVIL OMG, no, I am not. Draco is a normal boy. Please. People. If you don't know any normal 17 year old boys who are bigoted stuck-up assholes, then you need to expand your circle of teenagers.



Corollary popular opinon: Draco will be redeemed. And I think has been already. JKR, you rule.



4. JKR Rules.



Corollary popular opinion: But her taste in HP ships sucks.



5. Harry or Draco dying will only make the H/D ship stronger after the end of Book 7 than ever.



Corollary popular opinion: but if Draco dies, he's totally dying as a redeemed character - his function in the books wouldn't be served any other way.



6. I actually think it's kind of neat that the fandom is so big whole factions can exist in separate corners of it and not even know anything about each other. It makes it feel all metropolisy that way. Like, you know, who knows - one day you could wander off Livejournal and end up somewhere you never knew existed, like Muggle Thai or Forbidden Desires, or somewhere where the denizens are like, "what's a livejournal?" And, yeah. Pretty cool.



Corollary popular opinion: That said, Livejournal should be the center of the universe.



After all, I don't need fanfic for subtext; subtext I can get from canon



I go to fanfic to see subtext realized. It's not that I'm never in the mood for subtexty fic, it's just that it doesn't generally fit what I'm looking for in a fic. It frustrates me, I guess; I want to watch the whole process of things getting resolved between the characters, and in subtexty fic things never are resolved, which winds up annoying me more than it intrigues me.