Aww that was sweet. I feel bad for Harry, though, not being able to take part.

Well, I missed this being posted, so I'm going to get my reply out before reading what other people said. It saves me from being all, "I agree with that person, that person, that person can go to hell, oh, and that person's an idiot." Now that I've wasted a couple sentences, let me just say that I agree with you on almost all of the points you made. The one nearest to my heart is the rapefic one. As a victim of sexual trauma myself (not rape exactly, but fairly close), I find most rapefics to be revolting and personally offensive. I can assure anyone who may thik otherwise that people do not snap back from being hurt so thoroughly in the blink of an eye. If someone looks like they have, they're FAKING or their ordeal has hurt their ability to rationalize and discover that they are not required to pander to their abuser. I'd also like to note that boys can also be raped, and most often they don't find it enjoyable, either. The only thing I don't really agree with is the argument against clothes. With Potter fics, there are people who go by the movies, also. Putting PoA aside--it looked like someone barfed up Gap all over them--there's no real mention of timeframe in the movies. Sure, WE know that the books, if we go by when Rowling wrote the first one, take place in the 90s, but is it so wrong to update the fashion a little bit and imagine them in a world like ours? In my mind, at least, the story is sort of out of time, like it could take place right now or ten years into the future. Just my two cents.