Solvent comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 18, chapter 87 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Solvent 23 December 2012 04:57:35AM 7 points [-]

The author doesn't want to write sports stories. The girls get comic stories about relationships, but the boys don't get comic stories about Quidditch.

This is a very good point. As a reader, I think those 'silly young boy' conversations would probably get old for me faster than the girl ones.

Comment author: Bakkot 24 December 2012 03:47:24AM 3 points [-]

They'd get old really fast for me, considering that there isn't a good way for sports stories to even be about main characters.

Comment author: Sheaman3773 19 August 2013 05:31:01PM 0 points [-]

Unless I'm misunderstanding you, there is a good way for sports stories to be about main characters--you have the main characters be a part of the teams being discussed, say with school sports. That wouldn't work in this fic, of course, but it is possible in general.