I've loved the Mets for years. I'm so over 1986 it isn't even funny. *g* The best thing about the Mets is that Mets fans hate the Yankees almost as much as Sox fans. We understand each other. Right now, the Mets have my Pedro Martinez, who is the w00biest w00bie in w00bieland and I heart him.
Harry Potter is NOT boring!
My favourite character is Draco. CANON Draco. Snivelling, conniving, bratty ultimately backhandedly noble Draco. When I think about how he must have been brought up, he was certainly as abused as Harry. Not physically, I'm not one of those people who thinks his father beat him or anything. But emotionally. He's a prime example of the South Pacific song You've Got to be Carefully Taught. Draco was taught very well. With all his haughty airs and cowardice, he's really a poor thing. I want to wrap my arms around him and take him home and feed him coookies and then adopt him. He'd hate me, but we'd get over that. :)
I also love Snape. He's the most complex of all of them, and he's almost, almost up there with Draco. Draco's my favourite because I get him. Snape's my other favourite because I don't, and I want to find out what makes him tick. Do I think he's evil? No. But I don't think he's "good", either. I don't know what he is.
My ship is Harry/Draco. Yeah, I know, it's not canon, but it could be. I think it's more Canon than Harry/Hermione or Ron/Luna ever would be. It even makes more sense than Remus/Tonks. They have a dynamic between them, two emotionally abused kids railing out at each other because they can't rail against who they really need to (in Draco's case, his father, and in Harry's, Voldemort). And Draco acts like a boy with a crush. If Harry were a girl, he'd be dipping her pigtails in magical inkwells. The Potter Stinks badges and all that teasing? Such crush behaviour.
I also ship Remus/Sirius, which to me is close enough to canon for there to be no difference. And Ron/Hermione. And Harry/Ron/Hermione, in some cases, because there's nobody that understands them but each other. They're my OT3. *g*
I'm not a Ginny fan, really, even though I'm glad she's grown a personality. I see no chemistry between Harry and her at all. I think that really, if Harry is to really really stay IC, at the end of the story (if he's still breathing that is, y'know?), he'll be alone, with Ron and Hermione including him in their circle. He's been through too much to really connect with Ginny, who, sure, has been through her own stuff, but nowhere near what Harry's experienced.
Thank you for asking this. HP is such a good story, complex and rich. I can't wait for book 7, and at the same time I dread it. *sigh*
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I've loved the Mets for years. I'm so over 1986 it isn't even funny. *g* The best thing about the Mets is that Mets fans hate the Yankees almost as much as Sox fans. We understand each other. Right now, the Mets have my Pedro Martinez, who is the w00biest w00bie in w00bieland and I heart him.
Harry Potter is NOT boring!
My favourite character is Draco. CANON Draco. Snivelling, conniving, bratty ultimately backhandedly noble Draco. When I think about how he must have been brought up, he was certainly as abused as Harry. Not physically, I'm not one of those people who thinks his father beat him or anything. But emotionally. He's a prime example of the South Pacific song You've Got to be Carefully Taught. Draco was taught very well. With all his haughty airs and cowardice, he's really a poor thing. I want to wrap my arms around him and take him home and feed him coookies and then adopt him. He'd hate me, but we'd get over that. :)
I also love Snape. He's the most complex of all of them, and he's almost, almost up there with Draco. Draco's my favourite because I get him. Snape's my other favourite because I don't, and I want to find out what makes him tick. Do I think he's evil? No. But I don't think he's "good", either. I don't know what he is.
My ship is Harry/Draco. Yeah, I know, it's not canon, but it could be. I think it's more Canon than Harry/Hermione or Ron/Luna ever would be. It even makes more sense than Remus/Tonks. They have a dynamic between them, two emotionally abused kids railing out at each other because they can't rail against who they really need to (in Draco's case, his father, and in Harry's, Voldemort). And Draco acts like a boy with a crush. If Harry were a girl, he'd be dipping her pigtails in magical inkwells. The Potter Stinks badges and all that teasing? Such crush behaviour.
I also ship Remus/Sirius, which to me is close enough to canon for there to be no difference. And Ron/Hermione. And Harry/Ron/Hermione, in some cases, because there's nobody that understands them but each other. They're my OT3. *g*
I'm not a Ginny fan, really, even though I'm glad she's grown a personality. I see no chemistry between Harry and her at all. I think that really, if Harry is to really really stay IC, at the end of the story (if he's still breathing that is, y'know?), he'll be alone, with Ron and Hermione including him in their circle. He's been through too much to really connect with Ginny, who, sure, has been through her own stuff, but nowhere near what Harry's experienced.
Thank you for asking this. HP is such a good story, complex and rich. I can't wait for book 7, and at the same time I dread it. *sigh*