Love potions and double standards in Harry Potter and fandom

[jademoonleader.livejournal.com]

It was mentioned on a previous thread that there is a creepy double standard in the series about how love potions are considered to be somehow OK if a witch uses them. For instance, we get Molly whom JKR wants us to love, giggling about brewing a potion that turns people into lust fuelled zombies. Did she actually slip the potion in question to someone? I really do wonder what JKR could have been thinking (if she thought at all).

The author of this fanfiction (link below) clearly adopts JKR's idea that love potions are alright for witches to use. The character Daphne Greengrass (who is only mentioned in the books, but never appears) slips Harry a love potion and then rapes him in order to curry favour with Voldemort, but bizarrely, all the characters, including Harry himself, blame Harry. What is stranger still, is that the author tries to curry sympathy for Daphne even though she had violated Harry for Voldemort. I discovered the fanfiction on the tv tropes double standards webpage.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8499608/1/Fun-with-Potions

The author actually writes in an author's note at the end of chapter 2: "I don't see why people are getting on my case for Daphne raping Harry. If anything it is just repeating how Merope Gaunt conceived Tom Riddle."

Does this series convince many that rape using love potions is not really rape?

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This is both a reply to this entry & a request for help:

[vermouth1991.livejournal.com]

In one of the conversations I'd had over here with someone else (bad David, can't even remember a name!), she/he introduced this very telling fanfic to me: Lily sees a recipe for a love potion on Witches Weekly (I've seen tips for readers' sex life on Cosmopolitan and Entertainment Weekly, but nothing about drug use like this; wizards and witches really handle next-level sh-t) and brews one for Severus, knowing about his crush. It works well. Too well in fact. It took an antidote twenty years later for Severus to realize that he ought to be over his crush a long time ago and find someone else to love and marry.

I think I was told that the fic's author was "notwolf", however I can't find this fic over on notwolf's fanfiction dot net account, so if you see this, I'd really like a direct link, because I don't think I even remembered the author's name right. Thank you.

ETA: Now that I've checked, it was a conversation I'd had with @oneandthetruth on a recent thread. If you see this, can you please give me a link?

Re: This is both a reply to this entry & a request for help:

[oneandthetruth.livejournal.com]

Well, I can't give you a link because LJ won't allow it. The story is Death Eater No More. However, please note this is part of an epic series, which is listed in order in notwolf's profile. You'll get a lot more out of it if you start at the beginning and read the novels in order. Her WIP is Father, My Father, about Abraxas as a young man. You can skip over it and go straight to The Beginnings of a Death Eater if you want to start with the Baby Boom characters.

I'm sorry it took me so long to reply to you.

Re: This is both a reply to this entry & a request for help:

[vermouth1991.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the info. Actually just the title, author's name and site (fanfiction dot net, harrypotterfanfiction, fanfiction dot mugglenet dot net, thepetulantpoetess...) would be more than enough.

It's alright, I'm not a very swift replier either. :)