Everyone else is doing it

My spoiler policy:

I am responsible for my own spoilage. If I choose to read lj before I finish the book, and cannot resist poking at cut-tags, that's my problem, or if I read a cut-tag that is more informative than it should be - also my problem.

I trust that people will try to put things under uninformative cut-tags, but I know that mistakes happen.

I will also do the same for my own lj - all essays, stories, filks and rants referring to HPB will be cut-tagged for the next three months. Which is what I normally do anyway, but for that time period, I'll say "spoiler warning". Also be aware that a post that is, in itself, spoiler-free might have spoilers in the comments.

This is where Shabbat becomes really, really *good*. I won't get a chance to read LJ until Saturday night anyway, by which time I'll be deep in the book.

(On another note: eating a large burger at 11PM is a *very* bad thing for my tummy.)

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Now, it may be just because I don't read het fic, but I do see a lot of headers and drabbles and such, so you'd think that in a fandom that pairs *everyone* and *everything*, I'd see a nearly canon pairing, but I don't. Then again, I could just be me

Why do I not see any Ginny/Dean stories? Or even stories with Ginny and Dean in the background?

I have my suspicians, of course. The good ones are that people have other pairing preferences for her, such as Harry or Draco, or Hermione or Luna. And she's not with Dean yet - she only wants to start dating him at the end of OotP and nothing's happened, so we don't have an image of her with him. After all, we don't see any stories with her and Michael Corner, either, and they dated for most of OotP. So, I'm pretty sure that most of the reasons are that people prefer her with someone else.

I just wish I could toss out another, less good reason.

No one wants to admit to being racist, and I suspect most of us have more of that than we'd care to recognize in ourselves, and I do not think it's on purpose. On the other hand, I've only realized it at all this week while writing a scene in the current WIP.

Do you think that, unconciously, people just don't want to pair our pretty, redhaired Pureblood girl with a Half-blood/Muggleborn boy from West Ham?

Or do they just prefer him with Seamus? :)