LOL! I can't imagine angua9 was at madlori's LJ.... I bet it was owlmoose, who is not in HP fandom (but likes HP) and is friends with both me and Lori. But it's nice to know I was being pimped! And how delightful that one comment was there to bring you onto my flist.
PoU is indeed an important piece of fandom history. One of the three epic pre-OotP fics with a huge audience, I suppose. I wish I could somehow know how differently fandom would have turned out if (say) PoU had been H/G. Fandom history is a combination of predictable responses to the books combined with totally random and arbitrary reactions that start with a small number of highly idiosyncratic and persuasive individuals and propagate outward through the whole mass of people.... I really think if those individuals had had different tastes in the early days, we'd be looking at a very different fandom. But we'll never know for sure.
And omfg they were exorcising it, you moron. And anyway, he turned out to be alive. So there.
asdfajsdfjk Is that what they were doing? "Ron, let us remove the foul spirit that has infested your noble grave with this, the power of our hot, hot boinking." Works for me! :D
I love "what-if" history. You theory's great, even if it makes my brain hurt. No Harmonians!?
vkldjrfg what I meant by "exorcism" was like an exorcism of their grief. But now I can't remember if that actually happened (did the description come from diejkrdie?) I do remember that Harry proposed on the site where they found the body. Maybe there was sex afterwards?! Anyway, if there was sex, it wouldn't have been of the "ha ha in your face, Ron" kind, it would have been "oh I wish he was still alive, let's have sex to show him how much we still love him". Duh.
PoU is indeed an important piece of fandom history. One of the three epic pre-OotP fics with a huge audience, I suppose. I wish I could somehow know how differently fandom would have turned out if (say) PoU had been H/G. Fandom history is a combination of predictable responses to the books combined with totally random and arbitrary reactions that start with a small number of highly idiosyncratic and persuasive individuals and propagate outward through the whole mass of people.... I really think if those individuals had had different tastes in the early days, we'd be looking at a very different fandom. But we'll never know for sure.
And omfg they were exorcising it, you moron. And anyway, he turned out to be alive. So there.
asdfajsdfjk Is that what they were doing? "Ron, let us remove the foul spirit that has infested your noble grave with this, the power of our hot, hot boinking." Works for me! :D
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vkldjrfg what I meant by "exorcism" was like an exorcism of their grief. But now I can't remember if that actually happened (did the description come from diejkrdie?) I do remember that Harry proposed on the site where they found the body. Maybe there was sex afterwards?! Anyway, if there was sex, it wouldn't have been of the "ha ha in your face, Ron" kind, it would have been "oh I wish he was still alive, let's have sex to show him how much we still love him". Duh.
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