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He was the last student to be Sorted in the first book. How do people forget that?
EDIT: Troubling... I could have sworn it was cited in the first book, as I had just read the series again recently when my best friend told me about these Blaise Zabini fanfics, and one particular one that had Blaise as blonde haired and blue eyed female as you can get, and then I dropped the bomb on him. It might be in the book, but written as an oblique reference like "the black boy who was last Sorted" or something because I sure as hell didn't imagine it.
EDIT: Troubling... I could have sworn it was cited in the first book, as I had just read the series again recently when my best friend told me about these Blaise Zabini fanfics, and one particular one that had Blaise as blonde haired and blue eyed female as you can get, and then I dropped the bomb on him. It might be in the book, but written as an oblique reference like "the black boy who was last Sorted" or something because I sure as hell didn't imagine it.
Oh, yes, I forget; I wasn't a reader of Harry Potter until like a week or so before the fourth movie. On grounds of doing research, I picked up the first book from Wal-Mart just familiarize myself with the basic story so I wasn't completely lost when I went to watch said fourth movie with my best friend and his father. Same day, I went back to Wal-Mart to get Books Two and Three, then returned yet again for Four and Five. Six dropped shortly thereafter, and I got that, too, so chances are, it was the beginning of Book Six where I discovered Blaise's race (and gender; would have sworn that was a no-brainer, but...) and cross-referenced it to Book One, since it was much fresher on my mind and much more impressive to me that there were actually black people that mattered in some capacity of story in a fantasy setting like Harry Potter.
...why does this sound more like a Xerox of a Xerox of a Xerox? Because I can't imagine a collective fandom going:
...you know what? On second thought, I can imagine that, since some Hunger Games "fans" lost their shit because they didn't know Rue was black in the books.
...why does this sound more like a Xerox of a Xerox of a Xerox? Because I can't imagine a collective fandom going:
...you know what? On second thought, I can imagine that, since some Hunger Games "fans" lost their shit because they didn't know Rue was black in the books.
That's pretty much how it went.
Keep in mind Harry Potter Fanfiction tried everything. To put it in perspective the oldest 100,000 word HP fics are dated back to the year 2000. Blood Prince came out in 2009. Hell, there are a bunch of year six fics written before that book came out.
Point is, as shipping goes, Harry got paired with everyone. Everyone. Harry/Slytherin girl becomes a thing because, well, bad girls are hot and all that, and Harry in Slytherin plot lines have been a thing ever since book 2. Problem was, out of the Slytherin girls we had actually seen Millicent was noted as troll-like (not that it stopped some fics), and Pansy was pug-nosed on top of being Draco's maybe, sorta girlfriend. The other girls were basically blanks slates though and thus fair game.
Blaize was lacking in any sort of physical description and had a cool unisex name. Somehow she was the one that won out in the fandom and it became a trend. There were male! Blaize fics as well, but by the time he was revealed as he, there were a ton of fem! Blaize fics. It was almost a given in the fanfiction community of the time.
Keep in mind Harry Potter Fanfiction tried everything. To put it in perspective the oldest 100,000 word HP fics are dated back to the year 2000. Blood Prince came out in 2009. Hell, there are a bunch of year six fics written before that book came out.
Point is, as shipping goes, Harry got paired with everyone. Everyone. Harry/Slytherin girl becomes a thing because, well, bad girls are hot and all that, and Harry in Slytherin plot lines have been a thing ever since book 2. Problem was, out of the Slytherin girls we had actually seen Millicent was noted as troll-like (not that it stopped some fics), and Pansy was pug-nosed on top of being Draco's maybe, sorta girlfriend. The other girls were basically blanks slates though and thus fair game.
Blaize was lacking in any sort of physical description and had a cool unisex name. Somehow she was the one that won out in the fandom and it became a trend. There were male! Blaize fics as well, but by the time he was revealed as he, there were a ton of fem! Blaize fics. It was almost a given in the fanfiction community of the time.
Well, there are pictures involved. I wouldn't say they're funny. At least the ones that visited the link below (even to this day) certainly wouldn't.
29 Times Tumblr Made Harry Potter Fans Cry All Over Again
29 Times Tumblr Made Harry Potter Fans Cry All Over Again
