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My immediate response on reading this article about the Accio! conference this weekend was... *headdesk*

You mean there is Albus Dumbledore pornography on the web? "Yes!" she squeaks. "There are different pairings: Snape and Lucius; Harry and Draco; Dumbledore and Harry; even Dumbledore and Fawkes." Fawkes is a bird. "Someone wrote a love story about Draco and a giant squid. Personally I think the author overused the term 'fishy flesh'."

Please remember, when you're dealing with journalists or other 'mundanes' that what to you and I may seem entertaining can much more easily come across as odd / perverse / bizarre / sick / disturbing / just plain strange (delete as appropriate).

Maybe by not making yourself look like slashers deserve to be studied like they're chain-smoking monkeys in the sideshow carnival that is popular culture, newspapers might pick up more on the side of the story they pass on by here: in this case, Warner Brothers intimidating the organisers of an academic conference that they were not in any way supporting into banning the discussion of a whole aspect of literary theory.

Yep, censorship hard at work to suppress the legitimate discussion of queer theory in respect of a literary text at a conference where there were no under 18's present, so no reason to get all 'but will no-one think of the children?'. I'm just annoyed that the organisers knuckled under.

E.T.A - so, it looks like the 'quotes' were equally as make-believe as Harry Potter himself...