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[reenka]

So um, I started to read this post about Houses & Hufflepuff in particular and how one seems to be Sorted according to desire rather than ability, and there was this quote about Harry:
   Similarly, sneaky, snarky, sly Harry with his Parseltongue and his ambition *values* nobility of spirit, loyalty, and derring-do, so he ends up in Gryffindor.

...And I just sort of went, SQUEAL!!1 MY BABY!! <333333333333

Er, yeah, I do have a point besides to just yell yet again about how much I adore my Harry <3<3<3<3<3<3 (Excuse me for a moment...)

But anyway! What I really want to see happen-- what I'd love to organize if anyone was seriously interested & wanted to help me-- is a Harry fanart/fanfic fest. Like, slash, gen, het-- doesn't matter, as long as it's Harrycentric & about acknowledging his different facets rather than just woobifying him, y'know. He's -not- just a cute doofus or someone who's oh-so-obvious & wears his heart on his sleeve; neither is he -all- sly & calculating & jaded and while he may be attracted to the Dark Arts, he's unlikely to ever make the conscious decision to break his own moral code anytime soon. Though he could do rather chilling things if he thinks or feels at the moment it's For The Good (whether it's feeding Dumbledore the potion or beating up Draco on the Quidditch pitch).

So!

Would people be interested in a post-HBP Harry fest like the sirius_loving thing? Like, uh, harry_loving just sounds -odd-, but. Yeah. I do mean 'loving' as in -love-, not as in 'sexing Harry up' or 'giving Harry orgasms', because there are lots of fests that do that already. Neither do I mean simply 'making Harry happy', because it's not like I'm looking for an outpouring of fluff (*shudder*). I just want Harrylove, whatever form it takes, as long as it's an honest and generally positive portrayal.

It seems worth doing since I do feel he's at an interesting turning point at this time in canon, too, and there's lots of directions for Harry genfic to go, actually. Or slashfic that took awhile to uh, to get slashy, say. Whee.
    (Needless to say, I'd be willing & inspired to write for it myself, eheheh.)
    Although I'm serious this time, and don't want to get my hopes up for nothing like with the hugfic challenge thing-- so tell me if you really are interested.

I mean, there must be enough Harrylove in fandom to pull this off, right...?

...right?

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[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Well yeah, I should've specified-- what bothers me is the context of 'a puppet in his judgments' in specific, not misinformation, which can definitely be a plot point (rather than a characterization point, anyway). Sometimes the line between misinformation & ethics becomes blurred I suppose, but then Harry's not that flexible off-hand-- if he did change his mind about something really basic in his worldview, it'd involve struggle and resistance until/unless he was presented with good enough evidence (like with PoA plot and Sirius, yeah). He's not going to just... have this big moment of... um, insight into himself very easily, if that insight is how he's been wrong to have followed the path he did because(!) he was really following other people(???!) and their expectations. Harry's just not a guy who gives much of a toss about people's expectations as far as I can tell (that'd be more Ron & Hermione in different ways, but Harry?I really don't think he feels he answers to anybody in the end).

But yeah, that's central-- 'when he learns the truth he's the same'. So he wouldn't escape or join the 'other side'-- he'd be on the front lines, -being- the other (third?) side, because that's just Harry. If he decided what he was doing was wrong, he'd charge like a bull again, just in the other direction. ^^;; I really don't see his self-righteousness going away that much if he's going to remain anything like himself.

I feel that people play with 'controversial' takes on Harry for shock effect and speculativeness-- and that's fine-- but they never give enough credit to just how hardass Harry is about whatever he believes, and how that's not anyone's doing but his own. I'm just really tired of people portraying him as either a totally straight-and-narrow goody two-shoes who wouldn't touch Slytherins with a ten-foot pole -or- someone who's self-consciously(!!?) following the image of the Golden Boy and Wizarding World Savior and is actually sick and tired of all that morality bullshit and just needs a good shag with Draco to push him over the edge into seeing everything anew.

You know, for being the main character, there's also surprisingly little fannish thought, creative or meta, given to Harry as a character (and not Harry-the-narrator or Harry-the-lover or Harry-the-foil-to-another-character) that I see. But maybe that's just 'cause I avoid most fandom discussion anyway :>