Oh dear: the Guardian has discovered slash

[dianeduane]

I guess it had to happen.

'Harry Potter gay porn,' she corrects me. 'We write it. It's called slash fiction. You take the characters and you imagine them in different scenarios. There's het fiction too, where they think the characters are straight. Whereas we assume that everyone is bisexual until proven otherwise.'

...The quotes are from attendees at the recent Lumos HP convocation in Las Vegas. My favorite line from the article, for reasons that will doubtless amuse some of the NY area fans I hung about with all those years ago (and will be on a panel with at Worldcon):

This is Harry Potter for adults. A concept that I'd always thought of as one of those minority tastes like quantum physics for children. Or Star Trek for girls.

(snort)