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07/17/2003: some Harry Potter talk, also passing mention of nightmares with carnivorous monster lice
Today it was much too warm to do anything productive and catch up with things I didn't do over my extended weekend spent reading HP books. That I only finished reading OotP around three a.m. last night, didn't make me feel particularly industrious either.
Anyway, at least know I'll be able to follow people's HP posts, and the books were more fun to read than I expected. I now really wonder though why Harry/Snape seems to be a fairly popular pairing. I mean, I think Snape is an interesting character and I like him in that way, but I can't help that my first thought regarding Snape/anyone sex is mostly "eew" and, more importantly, I have a hard time to imagine either Harry or Snape wanting an intimate relationship with each other. From experience I know of course that -- with a good fanifc writer and enough work -- stories can take characters believably from canon almost anywhere, but for me Harry/Snape falls into the "takes a lot of work to be believable" category, and that's why I'm surprised that from what I've seen in passing on rec pages and such it seems to be more popular than the obvious "buddy slash" choice of Harry/Ron.
Though I definitely see the appeal of gen focusing on Harry and Snape. Thus The Sorcerer's Apprentice by laura jv is the now the first HP fanfic I've read. Another thing I no longer feel left out of, I now join the masses lurking in the dark, stalking her patiently waiting for new chapters. <g>
Not that it has to do anything with the rest of this post, but when I took a siesta during the too hot later afternoon/early evening, I had an awful nightmare in which I not only had lice, but those were growing the fashion of bad B-movie horror effects into some sort of monsters (not looking much like lice anymore either), which when they had reached about the size of rabbits were mangling my hands with their sharp jaw thingies as I tried to squash them. I woke up not rested, but rather disoriented and worried about vermin. Sort of like the last time I had a nightmare about cockroaches, though that time it had at least the positive effect that I felt compelled to really clean the bathroom and kitchen (which had no vermin infestation, despite a rather large pile of dirty dishes etc), unlike today's monster lice nightmare.
