Things I wonder: HP fanfic conventions

[jpub]

Feel free to add your own.
1) Why does everyone describe the background character Susan Bones as built like a heavily-enhanced porn star?
2) Why do people always show Dumbledore's eyes twinkling constantly?
3) Once again, exactly when did Fem!Blaise become a fic tag?--
Christopher Angel, aka JPublic
The Works of Christopher Angel

[Bob Schroeck]

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1) Why does everyone describe the background character Susan Bones as built like a heavily-enhanced porn star?

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Huh. I don't think I've ever noticed that. Where have you seen it?

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2) Why do people always show Dumbledore's eyes twinkling constantly?

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Because they're confusing him with Santa Claus? Anyway, in the wake of the latest book, I suspect that the rate of twinkling incidence is going to drop precipitously.

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3) Once again, exactly when did Fem!Blaise become a fic tag?

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When JKR finally declared Blaise to be a guy in canon, and people decided that they liked having a female Slytherin of unspecified loyalties to toy with anyway

-- Bob
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It's a "magical" land. I think "magical" is ancient Greek for "pain in the butt". -- Bun-Bun, Sluggy Freelance, 11/9/03

[jpub]

1) Meh. Wandering around HP fanfic sites. Whenever they talk about Ginny or Hermione, they're reasonable. The moment Susan Bones (or to a lesser extent, Lavender Brown)comes into the picture, words like "large" "impressive" "stupendous" start coming into the picture. Sheesh.
2) Well, yes.
3) But doesn't Daphne Greengrass work for that? --
Christopher Angel, aka JPublic
The Works of Christopher Angel

[Rieverre]

3) Yes, but most people who read/write HP fics involving female Slyths for some reason always go "But ... but it's Blaise! I mean ... Blaise! How can that name not make you hott?"
Rationality, where art thou?
-Griever
struggling with comp-issues ... again
When tact is required, use brute force. When force is required, use greater force.
When the greatest force is required, use your head. Surprise is everything. - The Book of Cataclysm

[HoagieOfDoom]

Going, going... gone!!
Really, when it comes to fandom (HP in particular) rationality is a term that usually doesn't even exist. Especially for the shippers.

[Star Ranger4]

Gee Hogie. What would EVER give you that idea??

*GSNARK!!!*"I was an Otaku before those kids came along and changed the meaning of the word."
-- HM "Howling Mad" Wilson to more than one team-mate.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

[Evil Midnight Lurker]

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"But ... but it's Blaise! I mean ... Blaise! How can that name not make you hott?"

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Because I read Wild Cards?
--Sam
"Roof pig! Most unexpected."

[WengFook]

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Really, when it comes to fandom (HP in particular) rationality is a term that usually doesn't even exist. Especially for the shippers.

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(sarcasm)Hey its perfectly possible... I mean Harry/Draco is totally believable as long as they can write it well (/sarcasm)
makes Harry/Minerva sound plausible by comparison huh?
quick think! whats the most implausible ship you can come up with... don't bother with harry/voldie since it has already been written _____________________________
HK-47: "Love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticule, and together, achieving a singular purpose against statistically long odds"
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Take Your Candle, Go Light Your World.

[Disruptor]

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quick think! whats the most implausible ship you can come up with... don't bother with harry/voldie since it has already been written

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Hmm. Hagrid and Voldemort
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Tom Mathews aka Disruptor

[HoagieOfDoom]

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quick think! whats the most implausible ship you can come up with... don't bother with harry/voldie since it has already been written

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Harry/Crookshanks
Hey, if someone can write Kaji/Pen Pen...

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Gee Hogie. What would EVER give you that idea??

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[sarcasm]Oh, I dunno. A little bird told me, I think.[/sarcasm]*********
There's no need to hear, I can shout you.

[Feinan]

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Harry/Crookshanks

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Yeah, you'd think so, wouldn't you? Of course, most people would put this right up there with Harry/Fawkes. And I've SEEN the Harry/Fawkes relationship.....
Two words.....Animagus form.

Feinan

[classicdrogn]

Actually, I've seen Harry/Min. She took a youth potion and 'infiltrated' the Golden Trio posing as an exchange student - I beleive as a y6 fic where Harry no longer trusted Dumbledore at all, and D wanted her to keep an eye on his security. But, you know, decades of life experience can't stand against teenage hormones, (and memories aside the endocrine system has a large effect on our thought petterns even IRL) and gosh, he's just so darn cute...
... yeah. It was actually fairly plausible, if you accept the starting assumptions that such a potion exists and she'd be willing to do anything of the sort.
- CD
What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse?

SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

[jpub]

CD, I remember that fic. It wasn't bad, actually. I wish I could find it again.--
Christopher Angel, aka JPublic
The Works of Christopher Angel

[classicdrogn]

It was on FFn, so the character filters might catch it for you. Then again, it's FFn, so who knows if anything will quite work like they say it will.
- CD
Edit: Relatively extensive searching there and via google gives no joy. Le sigh... if the smartypants hadn't changed their URL scheme three times in the last six months it would probably be possible to find it in the old reccomendations threads, or a profile that linked to it in the 'favorite stories' section, since I'm quite sure that's how I found it to begin with - that's about the only way I head into FFn these days.What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse?
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

[Sirrocco]

Voldemort/Aunt Petunia.
Hah.
Sirrocco

[chibipoe]

Harry Potter and the Black Owl
(for those who were asking about it..)
www.fanfiction.net/s/1512196/1/
"This hand of mine glows with an awesome power. Its burning grip tells me to defeat you....
Shining FINGER!" -Domon Kashuu, Mobile Fighter G Gundam

[classicdrogn]

Ah, that's the one! (The de-aging potion) I kept misspelling McGonagall from the looks of things.
- CD
What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse?

SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

[jpub]

And it's finished. Slick.--
Christopher Angel, aka JPublic
The Works of Christopher Angel

[jpub]

And for the record:
Harry/Bellatrix?! WTF?!--
Christopher Angel, aka JPublic
The Works of Christopher Angel

[WengFook]

i've got one... that relates to the original topic...
Since when did it become standard practice when making harry an animagus to decide that he would want to turn into a phoenix >_<
gods people choose less conspicous animals eh?_____________________________
HK-47: "Love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticule, and together, achieving a singular purpose against statistically long odds"
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Take Your Candle, Go Light Your World.

[Aleh]

Actually, JK stated in an interview that the person becoming an animagus didn't have a choice as to the animal they became. *Shrug*-- This message brought to you by Ely Lilly, makers of SeraFem: Happy Pills for PMS.

[Bob Schroeck]

Huh. Rocky start, but not bad, not bad at all. Went for the hard, heartbreaker ending, too, rather than the "de-aging potion + basilisk poison + unicorn tree cure = permanent youth" I was expecting. Double points for that.
I think I'll put this on my favorites list.

-- Bob
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It's a "magical" land. I think "magical" is ancient Greek for "pain in the butt". -- Bun-Bun, Sluggy Freelance, 11/9/03

[WengFook]

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Actually, JK stated in an interview that the person becoming an animagus didn't have a choice as to the animal they became. *Shrug*

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but minerva as a cat is so right! oh well anyyways that an interesting tidbit of information.. if I ever decide to write a HP story. _____________________________
HK-47: "Love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticule, and together, achieving a singular purpose against statistically long odds"
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Take Your Candle, Go Light Your World.

[Aleh]

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but minerva as a cat is so right! oh well anyyways that an interesting tidbit of information.. if I ever decide to write a HP story.

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Actually, that's rather the point. I'd have to look up the interview, but she says something to the effect that you become the animal that best suits you.-- This message brought to you by Ely Lilly, makers of SeraFem: Happy Pills for PMS.

[Bob Schroeck]

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I'd have to look up the interview, but she says something to the effect that you become the animal that best suits you.

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In that case, I would think Pettigrew's form would have sent up signal rockets and rung alarm bells for his friends.

-- Bob
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It's a "magical" land. I think "magical" is ancient Greek for "pain in the butt". -- Bun-Bun, Sluggy Freelance, 11/9/03