Putting a positive spin on it.

[amanuensis1]

I have decided that, if the film of GoF is uncanonically portraying Durmstrang and Beauxbatons as old-fashioned in their lack of co-educational status, this means that the homoerotica in both schools is rampant--and that Hogwarts is by comparison a hotbed of progressiveness and so there's even less homophobia there than we slashers pretend, in our giddy fandom brains.

So meh.

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[catrinella.livejournal.com]

Argh...now I'm envisioning the gangs of "sisters" at Durmstrang. It would be like "Oz" and "Shawshank," only a lot colder.

*whimper* I'm not caffeinated enough for that image! (OTOH, I would so read HP/Oz/Durmstrang crossover fic.) And Beauxbatons would be like the Castle Anthrax: "We are but eight score young blondes and brunettes, all between sixteen and nineteen- and- a- half, cut off in this castle with no one to protect us. Oooh. It is a lonely life: bathing, dressing, undressing, making exciting underwear. We are just not used to handsome knights."

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

All occasions call for Monty Python quotes. Nudge nudge.

[venivincere]

Wink. Wink.