Quotes from the Con:
From the Slash panel:
Panelist Kate Tanski: Why do heterosexual women enjoy seeing two boys getting it on?
Audience: Because it’s really hot!
(regarding “Daisy-Chain Draco”)
Panelist Vicki Dolenga: You read it and you go “what the hell did I just read?”
(regarding Slash after OOP)
Panelist John Walton: Oh my god, we’re canon. You don’t have to read much into the subtext to know that Sirius and Remus are more than friends. ::woofs::
Panelist Kate Tanski: Thank god I was a Harry/Snape slasher before this.
Panelist John Walton: Percy is the new Draco.
Panelist Vicki Dolenga: I’m just glad that we now have established female characters. Femme slash with Tonks, I mean come on.
Audience member: Writing Hermione/Ginny is subverting the system!
From the Draco panel:
Aja: (Introducing) Draco Malfoy: Slimy git now and forever, or does he have redeeming qualities?
Carlisle: Carlisle, known as Cedar. He’s a twit.
Catherine: I’m Catherine Tosenburger, and I think he’s a boring twit.
Cassie: I’m Cassandra Claire, and I think Draco has potential.
Irina: I’m Irina, and I try to see potential in everybody. I like Draco and I will not apologize for it.
Aja: No one is ambivalent. He’s Mr. Darcy or he’s Hitler.
Irina: In canon, he’s hopeless and offensive and a thorn in the side who eventually goes off into oblivion until he shouts “You killed my father! Prepare to die!”
Aja: His role is to echo Harry and underline the fact that Draco is what Harry could have been and vice versa, if Draco had any regard for human life.
Catherine: Dudley is getting all the development!
John: In the sense that he’s beating up small children! That’s depth, man!
Irina: That is so fanon.
Irina: You can’t atone for being a stupid brat.
From the Fandom Vernacular panel:
Panelist: We’re friendly! We promise! We’re just depraved!
From “The Importance of Being Ron” panel:
Panelist: It’s the half-blind leading the blind.
Panelist: Ron is a Harry/Ginny shipper.
From “Sail on, Good Ship”
H/H Panelist: In Prisoner of Azkaban, it’s all Harry and Hermione. They’re chained together, then fly off on a hippogryff, a symbol of love.
(Later)
H/R Panelist: Hermione doesn’t like riding on the hippogryff!
H/R Panelist: We look forward to the time Ron gets a clue.
H/R Panelist: We as romantics put everybody together. We put Dobby and the Giant Squid together.
From the “Timelines” panel:
(Regarding the Aberforth-IS-Dumbledore theory)
Audience member: But that would mean that it was Dumbledore prosecuted for practicing inapproprate charms on a goat.
Steve Vander Ark: Of course, you’re jumping to conclusions of what those inapproprate charms were.