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You know, there's something both amusing and horrifying about The Guardian sending someone to Las Vegas to cover Lumos and then making a report that is mostly about "hardcore wizard on wizard porn". I have to say I was reading this and thinking 'no, shut up... don't tell her that...'. ;)

E.T.A. that as suspected, the various sources of the 'quotes' in the article have been identified and they're all out of context and/or invented. And there is much (understandable) gnashing of teeth...

Current Mood: embarrassed

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This is Harry Potter for adults. A concept that I'd always thought of as one of those minority tastes like quantum physics for children. Or Star Trek for girls. In fact, it's not such a bad comparison, because it transpires that Star Trek is to young men what Harry Potter is to middle-aged women.

Wow. So, clearly doing some research prior to writing this article was never really considered.

'Harry Potter gay porn,' she corrects me. 'We write it. It's called slash fi ction. You take the characters and you imagine them in diff erent scenarios. There's het fiction too, where they think the characters are straight. Whereas we assume that everyone is bisexual until proven otherwise.'

Yeeeeeah, this quote doesn't sound manufactured at all. [/sarcasm]

Every reporter who has ever done a story on fan fiction zooms straight over the (copious) gen for the porn, and the porn becomes the beginning and the end of everything in fandom. *sigh*