Skipping over the first (I'll get back to hostility-into-sex later), I'm fascinated with the legal/moral issues involved. These are intriguing challenges for the author, who must shift "hostility" to "sexual tension", and find a way around both the laws of the wizarding world and the common aversions to cross-generational, sometimes underage, relationships. Of course, K/S never had the overt hostility of HP/SS, nor was the more mature man in Trek in the position of authority. It resonates with the classic Kirk/Spock dynamic: younger character, brash & heroic, is forced by circumstance to cooperate with an older man who keeps his emotions strictly in check. It seems like such an obviously intriguing pairing to me, so much so that I was surprised to find out it was once (possibly still is) considered a rare or exotic relationship for slash. Whatever the reasons, HP/SS is my favorite Potter 'ship, both in the stories and in fanfic. Maybe I just have a thing for cynical, bitter men… or a thing for Alan Rickman, which transfers to his characters. Maybe it's because I've been in a situation similar to H/S as a virgin teen, I seduced the much-older game master at our weekly D&D game. Maybe it's just because my intro to potterslash was the first draft of a story entered to the Snape Fuh-Q Fest at, where Snape was a servant of Voldemort all along, and claims Harry as his prize after the war.
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