Hermione/Crouch was hate shipping from main list

[pippin_999]

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at h...> 
wrote:
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> Penny wrote:
> 
> >Here are 2 
> > things you can do if you don't like the SHIPping discussions:
> > 
> 
> I think there is a third thing a non- or anti-shipper can do.  If you 
> can't beat 'em, join 'em!  
> 
> Therefore, I have decided to defect to the shippers and hereby 
> propose my own theory about who Hermione will wind up with 
*when she 
> is of legal age*:
> 
> ::drumroll::
> 
> Mad-Eye Moody!
> 
> It is *so* obvious, once you think of it.  The evidence:
> 
> 1.  When Hermione first sees Moody, she is repulsed:  "What 
happened 
> to him? . . . What happened to his *face*?" she says.  
Meanwhile, 
> Moody is "totally indifferent" to his lukewarm welcome in the 
Great 
> Hall.  That is always what happens in a good romance:  shock, 
> followed by an irresistible impulse to get to know the other 
person 
> better, which of course is not immediately shared.
> 
> 2. The man impresses the woman with emasculating her 
enemy:  Moody 
> turns Draco into a ferret.  How can Hermione fail to notice 
Moody now?
> 
> 3.  Moody demonstrates his power:  He overpowers, tortures 
and kills 
> spiders right in front of Hermione.  Hermione starts to 
appreciate 
> the "bad boy" side of Moody.  He only stops torturing the spider 
when 
> Hermione tells him to stop, showing how she can bend him to 
her will.
> 
> 4.  Romantic tension:  Hermione objects to having students 
placed 
> under the Imperius Curse.  Moody shows her the door.  She 
> submits:  "Hermione went very pink and muttered something 
about not 
> wanting to leave."  Tell me her knees weren't weak as she 
sank back 
> into her seat.
> 
> 5.   Moody finally falls for Hermione:  "Moody's magical eye 
quivered 
> as it rested on Hermione.  'You're another one who might think 
about 
> a career as an Auror,' he told her.  'Mind works the right way, 
> Granger.'  Hermione flushed pink with pleasure."  Roll the 
credits!
> 
> It all fits.  Moody is missing a number of teeth, and Hermione's 
> parents are dentists.  It is simply meant to be.
>

6. Sequel: Hermione is shocked to learn her true love's 
dangerous secret: he's really Barty Crouch Jr.

7. Hermione embarks on a long and dangerous quest to restore 
her true love Barty Crouch Jr.'s soul and incidently wean him 
from his allegiance to Voldemort.

Love it
Pippin, now a Hermione/BartyJr shipper