When I posted in your livejournal yesterday, I followed someone else's link to it, so I didn't see your signature. Wonderful to see you! Aside from your help on Fiction Alley with 'Rising Sun,' I've loved your Harry/Draco on the restricted section. ;) Thank you.
Yeah, Harry was having a little trouble translating from guy-to-girl. The story is totally unbelievable, unless you know it was a guy. Then suddenly it makes sense why the 'girl' would be in the showers, why they'd just be talking with Harry naked (about the game no less), the inside joke about 'picking up where Harry left off' -- even the 'girl's' casualness about catching Harry wanking.
Some things just don't translate. LOL.
I got the idea from a conversation with a gay friend in India. He told this story about a 'girl' to all his friends (who didn't know he was gay, hush-hush over there) about being hit on my this 'college girl'... his total shock at it (??), and finally giving in (??)... their living together for about six weeks (would never happen in India)... then his being two-timed. He had a giant freak-out, felt that he had done something really wrong.
It made no sense. Unless you realised he did this with a guy. Then it made perfect sense.
He went home to his family and wouldn't eat. Finally, he decided his life was over and became a monk. But he wouldn't explain why to the Lama. The Lama gave him a girl's name. And that meant a lot to my young friend, that the Lama understood and just sort of winked at it, didn't seem to think it was a big deal.
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Date: 2003-04-24 09:51 am (UTC)Yeah, Harry was having a little trouble translating from guy-to-girl. The story is totally unbelievable, unless you know it was a guy. Then suddenly it makes sense why the 'girl' would be in the showers, why they'd just be talking with Harry naked (about the game no less), the inside joke about 'picking up where Harry left off' -- even the 'girl's' casualness about catching Harry wanking.
Some things just don't translate. LOL.
I got the idea from a conversation with a gay friend in India. He told this story about a 'girl' to all his friends (who didn't know he was gay, hush-hush over there) about being hit on my this 'college girl'... his total shock at it (??), and finally giving in (??)... their living together for about six weeks (would never happen in India)... then his being two-timed. He had a giant freak-out, felt that he had done something really wrong.
It made no sense. Unless you realised he did this with a guy. Then it made perfect sense.
He went home to his family and wouldn't eat. Finally, he decided his life was over and became a monk. But he wouldn't explain why to the Lama. The Lama gave him a girl's name. And that meant a lot to my young friend, that the Lama understood and just sort of winked at it, didn't seem to think it was a big deal.
~Icarus