This raises huge meta-fandom questions: Is it slash if it's a canon pairing? Is it slash if it's canon, but is unrequited or not acted on? Is it slash if *I believe* it's a canon pairing?
Ow. My head hurts.
And thank you for overlooking my typos. Bad enough when they're obvious, but when I write 'develop into something more overt sexuality?', it's time to go to bed whether I'm sleepy or not.
But of course I refuse to.
Can we suggest a parallel between James and Voldemort [::boggles::] -- that both "protected" Peter, but in an unhealthy way?
Oh, I don't see why not. The problem may not be that James' "protection" was unhealthy, but that perhaps Peter was never able to develop an identity apart from James/Marauders. Again, we're back to the idea of arrested development: James is certainly moving on to a "mature" or "grown-up" life -- wife, child, the Order (a job as well?); Sirius and Lupin are also in the Order, presumably working or developing their own interests. Where does this leave Peter?
On the other hand, protection could be unhealthy if it leads to coddling, e.g., Albus and Harry. (I have a harder time justifying this view of a James-Peter relationship, but that's largely because I'm wallowing in Prat!James right now.)
I'm trying to work through the last half of the post but am making no sense at the moment even to myself -- I'm glopping Bertha and rejected chances for redemption, etc, all together, so I'm going to stop and mull over for a while.
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Date: 2003-08-06 11:30 pm (UTC)Ow. My head hurts.
And thank you for overlooking my typos. Bad enough when they're obvious, but when I write 'develop into something more overt sexuality?', it's time to go to bed whether I'm sleepy or not.
But of course I refuse to.
Can we suggest a parallel between James and Voldemort [::boggles::] -- that both "protected" Peter, but in an unhealthy way?
Oh, I don't see why not. The problem may not be that James' "protection" was unhealthy, but that perhaps Peter was never able to develop an identity apart from James/Marauders. Again, we're back to the idea of arrested development: James is certainly moving on to a "mature" or "grown-up" life -- wife, child, the Order (a job as well?); Sirius and Lupin are also in the Order, presumably working or developing their own interests. Where does this leave Peter?
On the other hand, protection could be unhealthy if it leads to coddling, e.g., Albus and Harry. (I have a harder time justifying this view of a James-Peter relationship, but that's largely because I'm wallowing in Prat!James right now.)
I'm trying to work through the last half of the post but am making no sense at the moment even to myself -- I'm glopping Bertha and rejected chances for redemption, etc, all together, so I'm going to stop and mull over for a while.