Okay, I lied. Harry Potter and the Community of Denial

[farla]

its_a_fake is awesome. It's devoted to how the carpet leak is obviously fake. They start about three hundred posts in. I'm reading through it now.

The best part is they make all sorts of really good points, but forget that the actual books are not, in fact, better written than reasonable fanfic. So you have people saying the names are ludicrous, this line or that is just unbelievably bad, this makes no SENSE and all that, and it's all entirely true, yes, yet unfortunately not proof Rowling didn't write it.

As/S shipping is hysterical, though.

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Re: Some spoilers

[farla.livejournal.com]

See, Harmonians are easily the most insane fan contingency, and she got a ton of shit from them post-book six. They were also some of her more vocal mockers, and people loudly proclaiming they were going to write a "real" book six because hers was so wrong. (A good number of them also repeated the Sirius/Lupin mistake of saying it was obviously canon and that she'd written it deliberately, which is a large part of what made her mad at that ship.)

Seen in this light, it's hard not to wonder if she had an ulterior motive in setting up for Harry to proclaim he is not, has never been and will never even think of Hermione in anything resembling that way. Especially on the heels of making Voldemort's horcrux a Harry/Hermione shipper.

I don't actually mind the scene. It was a touch heavy handed, but not a big deal and legitimate characterization. It's just I think the real reason it was included was that she was trying to disprove the shippers.

And yes, the logistics of Tonk's pregnancy are a mess. Even if someone can get the numbers to work out, she'd still have been pregnant for much of the time she was fighting Voldemort, and heading into the final battle not long after giving birth. But having a kid emphasizes how Lupin is NOT GAY, so there's a kid.