Citations:powerslash

Noun: "(fandom slang) slash fan fiction focusing on a romantic and/or sexual relationship between characters of unequal social status or rank"

 * 2007, Catherine Tosenberger, "Potterotics: Harry Potter Fanfiction On The Internet", dissertation submitted to the University of Florida, page 124:
 * Harry/Draco, as an “enemyslash” pairing, must negotiate a somewhat different “semiotics of masculinity” than Harry/Ron, and Harry/Snape, as both “enemyslash” and “powerslash,” is a different beast altogether.
 * 2010, Sigrid Sindhuber, "Slashing Harry Potter: The phenomenon of border-transgression in fan fiction", thesis submitted to the University of Vienna, page 67:
 * The second most popular Potter slash pairing is Harry/Snape, which belongs to the powerslash category, and again defies findings of early fan fiction studies focusing on buddyslash.
 * 2011, Catherine Tosenberger, "Homosexuality at the Online Hogwarts: Harry Potter Slash Fanfiction", in Over the Rainbow: Queer Children's and Young Adult Literature (eds. Michelle Ann Abate & Kenneth B. Kidd), ISBN 9780472071463, page 343:
 * Order of the Phoenix featured Harry and Snape (a powerslash pairing par excellence) forced to become uncomfortably intimate with each other: Snape is teaching Harry how to prevent Voldemort from reading his thoughts by...reading Harry's thoughts;
 * 2013, Janidean Bruner, "I 'like' slash: the demographics of Facebook slash communities", thesis submitted to the University of Louisville, page 10:
 * Although the second most popular pairing in Potter slash fandom, Snape/Harry (or Snarry), could be categorized as enemyslash, it is also a prime example of powerslash.