Harry Potter fans’ queer reading practices were further encouraged by the long-lived dedication of media fans to homoerotic fan fiction, known as “slash.” As experienced media fans migrated to the Harry Potter fandom, they brought with them the queer traditions established elsewhere (Hellekson an...
in revised form: 6 February 2014 / Accepted: 11 February 2014 / Published: 3 March 2014 Abstract: The book and film franchise of Harry Potter has inspired a monumental fandom community with a veracious output of fanfiction and general musings on the text and the vivid universe contained therei...