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There's a pug in my office!

HP wanky wanky

So a new academic HP conference has been announced. My gf absolutely should do a paper for it. The horror, of course, is that _I_ want to do a paper for it, but to the extent I know what on, it's utterly impossible -- that is, all the stuff that interests me, mainly in the social construction of wizarding society, is a big gaping black hole thanks to the way JKR writes -- oh, duh, I suppose I could examine the ways in which the big gaping black hole is filled in by fannon, but fuck me, do I not want to read that much fanfic, ever, nor conversely have to bump up against the less interesting discussions of JKR's portrayal of women (I'm much more interested in what we must speculate about the role of women in wizarding society than I am with the fact that JKR mostly gives her female characters short shrift (look at the way the teeth have been taken out of both Hermione and Tonks) and has a tendency to define her evil and/or chaotic male characters by their feminine traits).