Indeed. I mean, they're wizards so I assume that with enough effort they *could* do mpreg, if say they really really wanted babies. Or more logically if, say, you were a transexual wizard then they could probably fix your body to be more to your likeing, possibly including fertility (Ars Magica rules say you can... but um... that's not HP). But a)not everyone wants a baby and b)men do not get pregnant by accident.
My proviso is that if writers want to write MPREG of course they can. And if they want to have it turn out anything other than complete dross that it so often is, they need to put in about 200% more effort into allowing the reader to suspend disbelief. MPREG is one of the hardest sub-genres to write well because it's hard to be convincing and so easy for it to end up mawkish.
In defense of teh mpreg - The Harry Potter fandom is about the only fandom where I can buy the idea of mpreg? Why? Because its magic, silly! If you need something to happen, take an English word, add 'ous' to it, it becomes some silly Latin incarnation and voila! Plot Device. Mpreg works in Harry Potter, because everything and anything can happen in a world where magic exists.
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Enough with the baby girls! At the rate the couples are having girls in this fandom, it will be like China, not enough of the opposite sex to balance out the population... wait! Then we can have... GirlPreg!
hee! Well, you know, at least the girls have, you know, wombs and there isn't endless amounts of exposition of how the kids are carried in a male body.
It can be very, very bad but when it's good it pushes every single button I have. See, I like kids, and like seeing how a child affects their lives, and people that swear they will never have kids sometimes change their minds.
I do hate when a writer uses MPREG to punish men by making them suffer every malady under the sun. Then it stops being a story and instead becomes an agenda fic.
I assume that the Goblin blood thing was in one of her interviews? Because I don't remember that from any of the books. Frankly, I can't keep track of what she says and doesn't say in interviews anymore. There's always some other interview that I haven't heard of. I'm getting to the point where I have to say that if it isn't in the books, it isn't canon--even if the author DID say so elsewhere.
I know that would undercut some of the arguments in my own post, but I just can't keep track of what she says. (Not to mention that some of what she says in interviews contradicts what she wrote in the books--the Weasley boys' ages, for instance.)
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My proviso is that if writers want to write MPREG of course they can. And if they want to have it turn out anything other than complete dross that it so often is, they need to put in about 200% more effort into allowing the reader to suspend disbelief. MPREG is one of the hardest sub-genres to write well because it's hard to be convincing and so easy for it to end up mawkish.
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Enough with the baby girls! At the rate the couples are having girls in this fandom, it will be like China, not enough of the opposite sex to balance out the population... wait! Then we can have... GirlPreg!
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Narcissa was cursed by Lily Evans
Did that mean Draco and Harry were related?
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It can be very, very bad but when it's good it pushes every single button I have. See, I like kids, and like seeing how a child affects their lives, and people that swear they will never have kids sometimes change their minds.
I do hate when a writer uses MPREG to punish men by making them suffer every malady under the sun. Then it stops being a story and instead becomes an agenda fic.
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I know that would undercut some of the arguments in my own post, but I just can't keep track of what she says. (Not to mention that some of what she says in interviews contradicts what she wrote in the books--the Weasley boys' ages, for instance.)
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