heidi | Wow! A post about fandom-stuff! (aka The Pairings Meme & a Tweak on FAP & legos!)

1. The pairing you first fell in love with: Draco/Hermione. And I still adore it - under certain circumstances. I have such a fixed view in my own mind about how it would/could work (and even with what JKR said, as I told

wednesdayschild a few weeks ago, they could still date and not end up together as Draco's likely to be dead by the end of the series wah) that I don't always enjoy fics featuring or incorporating it, but the pairing? Oh yes, please.

2. The pairing you never expected to love as much as you do now: I never gave any thought to Sirius/Remus before I read Boys Own Camping Adventure but as soon as I did, it all made perfect sense.

3. The pairing everyone else loves that you don't: Ron/Hermione. I am sorry to those who like it, but I just feel that a girl shouldn't marry a boy who is both less intelligent and less ambitious than she is, and who picks fights with her. I just don't like the combination.

4. The pairing you love that everyone else hates: Draco/Hermione. There is much dislike for it. Even JKR hates it! Wah! Also, nobody writes Draco-obsessed-with-Sirius (sexual or not), and there needs to be at least some. I was arguing for the obsession even before OotP, and now, there's just so much fascinating baggage there! Also, I want to see some Lupin-perspective-on-Draco-during-PoA; is there any?

5. The pairing you used to love but don't any longer: Hmmm. I used to read more Snape/Lily and more Snape/Lucius than I have since OotP. I'm not sure why, but after OotP, I sort of lost interest in it. But I'd still read a well-recommended fic!

We've updated The Knight Bus, where people can post about real-life events. All thread starting posts in the forum are moderated, but they can then be used for people to plan and learn about RL events, especially in the lead-up to the HBP release, and then GoF.

Comments on RowM's photos from the Toy Fair in NYC:
a. Lucius would never wear synthetics.

b. Snape is in the graveyard scene. Hmmmm.

c. Wormtail has red hair? No wonder he glomed onto the Weasleys!

d. Have any R/Hr shippers made an icon out of this yet? If not, how many more minutes are you people going to wait?

e. This is the cutest ickle shark-seeker-person EVER! But, um, isn't it a bit eurotrashy in terms of the bathing suit THONG?

f. Am I the only one who doesn't like the gender-role allocation in the Mattel side of things?