Just wanted to see what the fans like to read about. Sorry I didn't put any female slash, but I really don't read too many of those.

I believe I've read them all but I like the Harry/Ron ones. Oh yeah, and I'm completely normal.. ha

It's all about Harry and Draco. I don't know why but I love them together. Although I don't mind a little Ron and Draco mixed in there.

draco/ron
because ron gets so worked up over it, and he turns red.

I'm reading a Draco/Harry fanfiction at the moment, so I obviously chose them. Green and gray are perfect together, they're like the Slytherin colors. *Grins slyly*

hmmm my favorite one is not in the poll =[

OLIVER AND PERCY! i just love it but you dont get too many fanfictions about them though

Harry and Draco of course!

Im not a big fan of the male/male slash fiction. I have read some good hetero slash, and some Hermione/Ginny slash... Thats always interesting.

I'm not a fan but I think Harry/Draco is best.

Harry/Snape Draco/Snape is always rather amusing...

But I think out of the ones listed there...Harry/Draco, simply cos it's the prettiest in my mind, and that's what it's about, innit..

I absolutely love Harry/Draco and I'm actually writing one as well called Star Crossed Lovers. It's at Fanfiction.net under the name TenyaStar if anyone's interested. Oh and I also like a little Harry/Severus every once in a while.

I love reading about the interactions between Ron and Draco.
There’s just all that history between the two families. It appears as if every one in the Weasley family really hates everyone in the Malfoy household and vica versa and that this has being going on for some time now.
Plus I love seeing Draco and Lucius being taken down a peg or two, especially when its one of the Weasley who is responsible.

My favourite isn't on that poll But I love Lucius Malfoy/James Potter slash, and also Severus Snape/Remus Lupin and Severus Snape/Sirius Black. I read them all and I write the first two that I mentioned

Also, hello! I have been a lurker here for a while and I've only just decided to join.

It's weird but I always had a soft spot in my heart for Ron/Harry

How about making this poll for the boys over here. Herm/luna sounds good . But come oni didnt even vote for this one. *Bad picture in head*

Okay...I've edited it to include some of the more popular pairings, including some femmeslash, especially for you, Oliver!

I can't put every pairing in there so I put an 'other' one in too...I guess that covers all the bases.

I don't think I need to tell you what I voted for and why....*cough*avatar*cough*

I pick Severus/Harry. Mainly because I have read this magnificently written, stay-true-to-character 'If You Are Prepared' fic.

Come to think about it, most of the slash/femmeslash couples are based on fanon, are they not? I dunno... I just thought it would...

But I read other slash couple fic last night, and it's really good! Although I'm not telling which couple is it... *cough*theirloveiscanon*cough* that's what the shippers said though... not me...

I'm the "other."

I like McGonagal in cat-form and Mrs. Norris.

Birds of a feather, and whatnot.

Besides, I know McGonagall likes pussy.

CATS! I'm talking about CATS!

MOD EDIT : **poke** Oi, now watch it please...

^^^^^^ LOL man does that sound wrong!

i like the Ron/Draco...just cuz Ron gets so worked up and mad its funny

lol. Sorry Dana. Didn't think it would work, to tell you the truth. Still. Pretty funny, IMO. McGonagal licking Mrs. Norris.

(What? Cats lick each other, that's all I'm saying.)

Think you're walking a fine line there Weasel King...

And obviously Ginny-Hermy slash is the best. Anyone who disagrees is just plain wrong!
Anyone know where I can read any?

Well, I do, but it's an NC-17 site, so I can't post the link here. If you're really interested, PM me and I'll let you have it. (There's some pretty good ones there too!! Just to whet your appetite!! )

And LLTWK - now, now. I don't want to have to use that quill. Behave yourself please. No one here is 'above the law', know what I mean?

If I had time I would want to read about Draco/Harry and how they do battle. I wouldn't want to read any love/romance fanfics. I don't think that's what Harry Potter should be about

Yes, I know. Just pointing out how innocent words can be used to say something very dirty, but "dirty" words can be used appropriately.

Not to mention that many might consider talking about homosexual characters in a childrens book to be taboo as well.

At which point I must add that Ginny and Hermione WOULD make a good couple, but I think Ron and Harry are Hetero Life-Mates.

I think the idea of lesbianism being less abhorant than um. . . what's the term for male homosexuals? Not that one, the unoffensive one? Is that women's sexual organs are less invasive. Which is why when a man has sex with a woman too drunk to be in control of herself it is rape, but when a woman has sex with a man that is too drunk to have standards it is just an embarassing situation.

But then, that's the whole "double standard." When someone tried to use the "double standard" argument against Bill Mahar, he said, "There should be a double standard, because there are two sexes." Which, as someone who tries to hold everyone to the same standard, completely stunned me with its obvious simplicity. Especially coming from him.

Actually, I have to say that I agree with you. Coming from a woman, I hope this reassures you guys that not all of us are the same... I think it's equally unacceptable for a woman to get away with that kind of thing as it is for a man, but unfortunately, because of the biology involved, it's very difficult to prove it if the woman is the aggressor. Equally unacceptable is for a woman to hit a man, but they get away with it every day. Its really just not on. And I hope it also reassures you all that, as a hopefully-soon-to-be-fully-qualified-forensic-scientist, I have no such prejudices. Woman or man, no assumptions will be made as to the guilty party from me and I know that mnay of my collegues feel the same. A bright new day for sexual crimes investigation, hey?

And the term for homosexual men...erm...just gay? I know that it can refer to both...er.... persuasions, but generally it's used for the men. I actually don't think they mind 'queer', seeing as how they use it themselves so frequently now, although I'm sure that there are a minority out there who would disagree.

Anywho, to bring it marginally more back on topic, I read a Bella/Hermione one the other day which wasn't bad at all. A little violent, as you can imagine, and it's one of the rarer slash pairings you'll find, but nonetheless, it wasn't a bad read at all.

I'm getting a great fondness for Draco/Harry stuff lately though too....

Not that I'd want the stories to turn in to some kind of filth-bonanza, but I do find it strange that the matter of sexuality (hetro or homo) has never really been bought up at all.

JKR never strikes me as one to pull her punches and setting a story in a boarding school without any kind of reference to sex is a tad... unrealistic (and yes, I do realise the irony of that statement)

Oh yay!! Sense at last!! Of course, realistically speaking, sex is going to go on in a boarding school - I mean come on!! It's full of teenagers with loads of disused classrooms and forestry!!! And I think to ignore it is daft - all teenagers are interested in sex in one way or the other - books like 'Are you there God? It's me, Margaret,' and the Adrian Mole books wouldn't be half so successful if they didn't reflect how teenagers truly are. This includes het or homo...whatever - both are perfectly normal.

In my college class at the moment, out of 160 odd of us, there are at least three homosexual people that I know of, probably loads more. In school, there were two people in my class who were too. Of course there will be homosexual people in Hogwarts, given the number of students who are there. Realistically speaking. Likewise, the rates of teenage pregnancies are through the roof - so obviously there are a heck of a lot of teenagers out there who know what they're doing.

Whether or not JKR wants to talk about it is her choice, of course, and she doesn't need to be overtly explicit because that's not what the books are about. But that doesn't stop her from hinting at it if she wants to. I don't particularly want to read in the books themselves about Harry's bedroom antics, (we have fanfic for that... ) but if Harry did turn out to not be gay exactly but completely loses interest in girls and starts talking about, say, Anthony Goldstein a lot, (see Anthony!! I do think of you as more than a peripheral character!! ) then I won't have a problem with it - that's confirmation enough that he may be gay for me.

Not that I think Harry is - just thought I'd point that out. I still say there's a better-than-average chance that Sirius and Lupin might be though.

Hmm... forestry.

Be back in a while, think I feel a Truth-or-Dare slash fanfic coming on...

lol

Growing up with three older sisters, the youngest five years older than me, I couldn't agree more with the "hitting" thing, Dana. lol. I've always said that if a girl is slapping at me or scratching me, I'm going to hold her down until she stops. But if a girl hits me like a man, I'm going to treat her like one. Which, luckily, I've not had to do. Of course, my sister hits like a heavy weight, but she was smart enough to stop doing that when I was thirteen and grew to be the same size as her. lol. That's when she started taking me to parties instead. So I never did get the revenge I dreamed of all those long years . . . sigh.

You're going to be a forensics investigator? Awesome! I always thought it would be cool to be a Detective, but I didn't want to have to write traffic tickets for ten years to do it, and was too lazy to go to college.

Funny how that works. I was too lazy to get money to go to college, so now I have to work twice as hard for money. Lol. The world is a funny place.

While I haven't seen any homosexual connotations in the HP series, JK did hint at schoolage sexual activity in OotP. Mrs. Weasley was telling Ginny and Hermione a story about meeting Mr. Weasley out of bounds at three in the morning. Mr. Weasley got caught by the caretaker and paddled. Also, the many students hiding in the bushes during the Yule Ball. It never says so, but there was probably more than smooching going on. And if they were doing that much there, I wonder what they were doing elsewhere

One other thing, however, is that OotP took place in 1996, (I believe. I'd have to look up the Death Day Party scene to be sure. Nearly Headless Nick gives the year of his death, and it's his 500 Death Day Party) which was a bit of a different time from now. I believe that makes Harry two years younger than me . In my school there were people I'm certain were gay, and one I know about that came out in college, but no one would ever have admitted it. It simply was not nearly as accepted as it is now. At least not in the U.S. I don't know about England.

Anyway, I look at it like this. Homosexuality is a fact of life. Certain people are attracted to members of the same sex. There's no changing that, and to try will just make them be more gay just to spite you, if that makes sense. All you can do is accept the fact that some people are gay. It doesn't bother me as long as they don't hit on me. Which makes me uncomfortable in the same way that a girl I'm not attracted to hitting on me would. Actually, far more uncomfortable, just because they are not girls. Not even really really REALLY ugly girls. lol.

It may sound shallow of me to say that, but the fact of the matter is if you're hitting on someone it's because you're sexually attracted to them. If a girl I'm not attracted to just acts like a friend, it is possible for feelings to develop. I would never not love someone just because they weren't physically attractive to me. It's only important for first impressions.

Hey, I just started a Harry/Draco slash yahoo group. The link is in my signature. Please join. There's not alot in it yet but it's new so be patient. There will also be a dash of Harry/Snape and Harry/Sirius for good measure. Oh and brief description is it's for fanfics and fanart of mainly Harry/Draco, but like I said also a little Harry/Snape and Harry/Sirius.

MOD EDIT : You are not allowed to advertise in your posts. Furthermore, your post had no relation to the poll in question, so it is off-topic. I understand you're trying to make people aware of your yahoo group but I'd appreciate it if you could keep the advertising to your signature and that's it. Thanks.

black and james now that would be cool

I voted on this poll a while ago, but apparently I haven't posted anything...

Oh well, I'll do it now then. I voted Remus and Sirius, because it was the first slash ship I ever read. Ever since I haven't been able to stop reading it. The Remus/Sirius ship is also great, because it seems very close to canon. Other than that I usually read Harry/Draco, and Harry/Severus.

I like to read about Remus and Sirius talking sbout old times. I find it very exciting reading about James as a schoolboy, and how they (James Sirius and Remus) was like when the were kids.

my vote went for No9.

Harry versus Lucius i just love the way they treat eachother, f. e. in OotP, when they meet after the trial

I voted for Harry and Ron, they're already best friends and they understand each other. They would just be so sweet together! Too bad it won't happen.

No offence to anyone, but i am totally against the whole homosexuality thing. but i voted for Remus and Sirius anyway because that would make sense.

Okay, first off, I can tell that most of the people here are girls. But seeing as how I am a guy, Hermione and Ginny are, I think, the best.

The slash couple I like the most is Sirius/Lupin. I like it since the third movie, it just seems so right they are a cute couple together.

I'm quite curious as to the demographic of the readers of slash - I'm a hetro male and my vote's for Hermy-Ginny but I'm not sure it necessarily follows that straight females or gay males automatically go for the man-on-man stuff. It's not like 'faceless' porn where the act is more important, as it concerns characters we know and love.

Any straight girls or gay guys that prefer femslash, or straight guys and gay girls that prefer regular slash?

Aw, shucks....*grins bashfully and raises hand*

Yeah, I'm straight, but I love all slash. I'd always go for the guy slash first, but I'm not averse to reading femslash. It's usually adult though - Hermione/Bella or something like that because I just can't abide Ginny so I avoid the Hermione/Ginny ones and other than those two, femslash pairings are pretty rare.

I just love the dynamics of a gay guy relationship - they always seem so sweet and sincere where the femslash usually involves...well...the stronger elements of interaction, put it that way...

Sanpe and HArry definitely, when ever they run into each other, Harry never backs down and snape never lets up. I think the hatred here is more than between any two characters, even H/D and H/V. When ever these two meet, its like all eyes leave where ever they were and immediately fall on them. The suspense!!!!

I'm not a big fan on slashes, but I would say that Harry and Draco would fit most. It reminds me of the ship I like most, Hermione and Draco. Harry and Draco are on opposite sides, basically hate each other, get into a heated argument one time..heh.. I've read this one fanfic about them that got me disgusted, then I went back and finished it. By then, I was still disgusted, but have always thought that this would be an excellent ship (if J.K. ever decides to do that..).

I've always been fond of Hermione/Ginny. For some reason, they just work together, but just in fanfic. That is the only slash ship I will read, except maybe a little Hermione/Luna.

~WR

I dont 'support' slash in Harry Potter, but I voted other so I could see what the verdict was leaning towards. I'm amazed at how many people are into Harry/Draco, and it does seem to be the women that are voting for it I guess I'm just old fashioned, but I just dont see Harry 'going' with another man. Draco even less, for that matter. But maybe that's why people like it so much, because its pure fantasy and unrealistic, therefor 'safe'? Still, each to his/her own, I guess.

I like the Hermione Ginny ones most of all probably, any Neville ones are funny, but H/G is probably the best!

Would I crossing the boarders of good taste and attracting moral outrage by extolling the virtues of a Ginny/Molly preference?

I'm kidding, I'm kidding!

*giggle*
You know, I voted for "other", because I really think a Severus/James fic would be cool. *lol*
I can picture it already... and close to canon. *giggle* Snape hates James for abandoning him for Lily, and he hates Harry, because James never was supposed to have children. *rotfl*

Oh, that would be a blast. Anybody knows a fic like that? Please PM me!

Other than that, I always thought Sirius and Lupin were a couple - until Tonks appeared. But now she is with Lupin. Oh well, maybe it's only for cover up? Lupin didn't really seem to be into it, they were only holding hands. *giggle*

Flutters

i`ve never really supported the idea of slashing... but if i had to choose, a real cute one would be remus/sirius. really, though, i really prefer them as just friends, really gooood friends.

and i just realized that the option for fred and george wasn`t up there. HOW COULD YOU FORGET FRED/GEORGE!? haha. just joking.