Heh. Heh. HEH HEH HEH.

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Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a post denouncing Marauder slash, which I found offensive (on the grounds that it was a bunch of fangirls saying "look, there are four boys going around everywhere together - they've got to be gay) and thoroughly hostile to the nature of the characters. Due to the incurable incapacity of many in fandom to understand anyt but the broadest and most loose generalizations, there was a bit of a kerfuffle, during which the usual charges of queerbashing and all the rest of it were given a thorough airing by people who mostly knew nothing whatever about me but did not feel this prevented them having opinions. It was a singularly unpleasant episode, during which I discovered the use of the ban button.

Now JKR has shown that Remus is straight (we always knew James was), which makes Marauder slash in general about as canonical as a Confederate three-dollar bill. Incidentally, she has validated my favourite bit of fanon - though I personally never wrote any Remus/Tonks, I loved writers like kikei andpandoraculpa who did, and said so in several reviews. Now, if someone wants to take refuge in Sirius-Peter, I do not envy them; and meanwhile, allow me a quiet little gloat.

(Believe it or not, someone has called JKR an "immature cunt" for validating Remus/Tonks. These are the authorities...)

EDITED: Just read the Waah-Spoilers thread in FA. Or rather, had a look at it - I could not bring myself to read it to the end. What a bunch of self-blinded morons. The most common complaint being that Ginny comes out of nowhere - Great Jesus in Heaven, what did you need, to be bitten on the leg? - and that she is a Mary Sue - meaning that any positive, courageous, loving character is a Mary Sue. Twerps! They all fell in love with their own little ideas and could not bear to be told they had been too clever by half.