10 unpopular fandom opinions meme

[mizbean]

I usually don't like to do memes, but I'm suffering from writer's block at the moment and this one seemed interesting. Without further ado:

Comments

[fourth_rose]

I'm not a big fan of Molly Weasley. But apart from that: WORD!!!

[mizbean]

I find myself defending Molly a lot. I know she is the overbearing, archetypal mother figure, but I admire that she took Harry in as one her own. I find her sweaters that she knits for everyone to be cute. Maybe it's because I'm a mom, too and I cannot even imagine having 7 children, let alone 6 boys. I realize that not everyone feels that way, though.

[fourth_rose]

I didn't want to say that I hated her or anything, there were just a few things in her behaviour that really bothered me (apart from the overbearing mother-act, I mean).

Worst for me was the Howler scene in CoS - humiliating one's child in front of the whole school seemed like a rather horrible thing to me, and apart from that, it seemed rather unfair to blame poor Ron for the inquiry his father was facing because Arthur was actually the one who owned an illegal flying car, wasn't he?

But I think I'd have to agree that raising seven kids (six among them boys) and staying sane is an amazing feat in itself ans should excuse such little slips ;-)

[mizbean]

I forgot about the Howler. That was pretty horrible. Although, I suspect that was written for laughs.

[cutecoati]

wonderful statement!! agree with most of it!
ESPECIALLY the Snape/whoever, Lupin/whoever (and that includes Hermione etc.), and it's not only because of being enormously OOC: I really dislike teacher/student-relationships - not due to any kind of "moral" objections (I mean, two grown-ups can do whatever they want to with whomever they want to AND IT SHOULD NOT BE ILLEGAL - sorry, got carried away for a moment), I just have problems whenever there's a state of dependence/authority...

I'm not too fond of Sirius Black either - his "jokes" as an adolescent are reckless and stupid, but, o.k., he's only 16 and who doesn't act stupid at this age, but what really got on my nerves were his neverending complaints about his uselessness in OotP *cringes*; I mean, I can understand that he felt this way but I simply didn't want to hear (erm, read) it any more...

I don't like Molly Weasley (*dies of OD of sweetness and gentlenessandbeingaperfectmother AAARRRGH*) o.k., don't like is maybe too much, and I think she's a, erm, nice character (NO

[mizbean]

I think I find the student/teacher relationships icky because whenever I hear of a real-life instance of a teacher taking advantage of their students, I get squicked out. Like there's this female teacher, who was just released from jail, who got impregnated twice by her young student. The first time when he was 13! And now, they are talking about getting married; he's 19 now and she's 42. Yuck! I even cringe when I read about in the newspaper. Anyway, moving on

[cutecoati]

yay, exactly my point! I'm really open to all kinds of relationships, but teacher/student... (Austria has just legalized male/male relationships under the age of 18 (!!!) - before this, a relationship between boy of 18 and another of 16 was illegal, but a 50-year old and a girl of 15 was okay...) *sighs*

R/HR... well, maybe it's already too obvious to come true, and I do fear at least one of them will have to die, but this relationship really almost canon ;-)))

Yeah, I can't see Draco/Ginny at all, too *cringes* - and although I really like Cassandra Claire's stories, I still can't see it work, not even there
and to the homophobic crap: I will NEVER understand these people, I mean, if I were this prejudiced I simply wouldn't read slash, I mean, no-one forces these poor narrow-minded people to bother with H/D or whatever pairing - there are a lot of pairings or plots I'm not interested in, so I don't read the stories

[mizbean]

I like Cassandra Claire's stories, too. A Season in Hell and After the Flood are two of my very favorites. I don't think she realized when she wrote a D/G subplot into the Draco Trilogy that she created a monster.