I'm a 28 year old male from California. I'm a mediocre writer, but I have fun doing it anyway. The only fandom I've written in is Harry Potter, but I enjoy other stuff, so long as I know what's going on.

So, I have gripes about Harry Potter, both canon and fanon. Here are some of the things I'm not fond of.

Slash. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm no homophobe. I've dated men and women, though I tend to prefer women. And my gripe isn't necessarily with slashfics, per se. It's with the weird things that come along with slashfics. In nearly every slash I've ever read, it seems like half of the male characters in the story are suddenly gay. I get that it's your world, you're playing in the sandbox the authors left us, blah blah blah. But could you at least try to make the statistics in your story match reality? Only about four percent of people are either gay or bisexual. Unless you have a compelling reason as to why Harry, Draco, Neville, Blaise, Cedric, Fred (but not George), Charlie, and Tom freakin' Riddle are ALL gay, it simply shatters immersion. Willing suspension of disbelief can only go so far.

Ginny Weasley. JK crafted an incredibly interesting world, and left it open-ended enough that we can do almost ANYTHING with it and still not break canon. What JK didn't do was give our protagonist an compelling love interest. Canon Ginny is boring. We know she has red hair, brown eyes, freckles, and a temper, but that's pretty much it.

Ron and Hermione. I mean, come on. This shouldn't have happened. Even JK said so after the fact.

Ron. I see a lot of people trying to champion the Ronald Weasley cause, but canon Ron wasn't really that great. He was lazy, inconsiderate, and obtuse. I mean please, when he met Harry, the first thing he did was ask an orphan if he remembered the night his parents died. I will grant that he grew up considerably, and became a likable enough bloke toward the end, but at eleven Ron was, quite frankly, a prejudiced little twit.

Snape. Snape's a dick. "But he's tormented!" they cry. "He's suffering every night over the accidental betrayal of the woman he loved!" He's still a dick. The douchebag had years to get over Lily's death. I understand that the grieving process takes time. But the entire time he was a colossal dick to children while in a classroom setting. If the man can supposedly occlude well enough to control his emotions while watching innocent people being tortured, then I can see two possible options here. One: He enjoys watching people get tortured and doing other Death Eater-y shit, or it at least doesn't bother him. Two: He enjoys tormenting children. Either way, my point stands. Snape's a dick.

The graveyard scene in Book 4. Priori Incantatem. Supposedly Tom's wand starts to regurgitate everything it had done, in reverse. Everything appears in reverse order except Harry's parents. James died first, trying to buy Lily time. Then Lily died. But James' shade comes out of the wand first. Either JK's atrocious math skills are at work again, or something ain't right.

Dumbledore. Whew. If I ever had to point to a complex character in children's literature, I'll go no further than pointing at Albus Too-Many-Names Dumbledore. Canon Dumbledore anyway. The man had the patience of a saint, a chessmaster's mind, and a complete willingness to sacrifice his own morals to do what was necessary, even while decrying the need to do so. JK did a masterful job with him. As far as fanon goes, I've seen Dumbledore as everything from a saint to a depraved monster. Thing is, as long as Dumbledore is done well, I don't care. If he's done poorly, then I'll probably leave a disappointed review and move on.