I'm one of those that enjoy reading and writing incest and chan, so I guess the reason I prefer one incestual pairing over another is purely because I like those characters more, and also that I see it as more plausible.
Pottercest is a pairing that I never read though, because it doesn't interest me. If it shows up in a fic I'm reading, ok. But I don't look for it. This is mainly because to me it would always imply necrophilia, and even if I read and write necro in LotR, I think that maggot-infested James/Harry thing squicked me out of this pairing. I was fine with reading it up until the creepy crawlies, because THAT is one of my absolute major squicks! Not decomposing bodies, or animated corpses, but maggots and flies. The other thing James/Harry implies is that Harry would have been a baby, up to 1 year old. And that is not ok for me. I suppose I draw the line somewhere around 10 years old...
Narcissa/Draco? Ewwww. Not because the mother does it and that would be more taboo, but simply because it's het. *grins* And I don't write or read femslash, so no Molly/Ginny for me.
I would look at Sirius/Harry as slightly incestous, because of the father figure thing, and Sirius being godfather. But more paedophilia though, of course depending on Harry's age. If it's an established family relation, it could be incest even without the blood relation. An adopted child is still considered the parent's own child, and if that parent abused the child, people wouldn't say that it's ok... There's the trust issue in these relationships that makes them interesting for me. As with some teacher/student pairings. Trust and authority... being used for this end. I see it as very probable among DE families, but it's interesting to see it in the 'noble' Gryffindor families too, if it's written as something else but brother-love-fluff.
I agree that the pureblood families are running out of non-related people to marry *grins* Cousin marriages wouldn't be completely unheard of. And then the inbreeding starts. What would happen if Voldemort wins the war, and the pureblood families keep breeding on each other? How many generations before weird things begin to show up? And what would they be - strange magical powers, physical deformities, mental illness?
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Date: 2004-10-04 05:25 am (UTC)I'm one of those that enjoy reading and writing incest and chan, so I guess the reason I prefer one incestual pairing over another is purely because I like those characters more, and also that I see it as more plausible.
Pottercest is a pairing that I never read though, because it doesn't interest me. If it shows up in a fic I'm reading, ok. But I don't look for it. This is mainly because to me it would always imply necrophilia, and even if I read and write necro in LotR, I think that maggot-infested James/Harry thing squicked me out of this pairing. I was fine with reading it up until the creepy crawlies, because THAT is one of my absolute major squicks! Not decomposing bodies, or animated corpses, but maggots and flies. The other thing James/Harry implies is that Harry would have been a baby, up to 1 year old. And that is not ok for me. I suppose I draw the line somewhere around 10 years old...
Narcissa/Draco? Ewwww. Not because the mother does it and that would be more taboo, but simply because it's het. *grins* And I don't write or read femslash, so no Molly/Ginny for me.
I would look at Sirius/Harry as slightly incestous, because of the father figure thing, and Sirius being godfather. But more paedophilia though, of course depending on Harry's age. If it's an established family relation, it could be incest even without the blood relation. An adopted child is still considered the parent's own child, and if that parent abused the child, people wouldn't say that it's ok... There's the trust issue in these relationships that makes them interesting for me. As with some teacher/student pairings. Trust and authority... being used for this end. I see it as very probable among DE families, but it's interesting to see it in the 'noble' Gryffindor families too, if it's written as something else but brother-love-fluff.
I agree that the pureblood families are running out of non-related people to marry *grins* Cousin marriages wouldn't be completely unheard of. And then the inbreeding starts. What would happen if Voldemort wins the war, and the pureblood families keep breeding on each other? How many generations before weird things begin to show up? And what would they be - strange magical powers, physical deformities, mental illness?