Shipping the Trio and the Twins

[Anne <urbana@charter.net>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Jamie, head of SMA" 
<enemy2oftheheir at y...> wrote:
> 
> I am a hardcore HP/HG shipper. No doubt. And I think that this is 
>an interesting topic. Yeah, most H/H fans are softer on the Slys, 
>which I never really noticed. They usually have Draco end up 
>becoming a nce guy and friend of the Trio, and in most cases gets 
>paired with Ginny in a relationship. (I personally do not see a 
>GW/DM romance in canon.) I tend to view Draco as a not-really-evil-
>just-misunderstood kinda guy. 

All these things do seem to pop up frequently in the H/H fan fiction. 
I'm not sure where they comes from either. I tend to see Draco as not 
evil, but emotionally deprived to the point of teetering on "the 
edge". I think Draco could go either way, and it will be very 
interesting to see how JKR (the only author who matters here) will 
develop him through the rest of the series. Personally I haven't yet 
seen a Slytherin student I really like, but that's just me; I'm not 
really attracted to "bad boys" (or girls). Beyond Draco, Crabbe and 
Goyle have always impressed me merely as his goons-in-training (and 
future DE's) and the Slyth girls have all made my face scrunch up.

>R/H fns tend to make Draco a very evil person, and favor 
>Harry/Ginny, 

IMO, this seems to me because R/H fans tend toward the One Big Happy 
Weasley Family scenario. Since they want Ron and Hermione to get 
together, it "makes sense" for Harry and Ginny to get together too, 
so that the entire trio becomes part of the Weasley family. I'd 
actually like to see a lot more of Hermione's family so that we can 
get a better understand of why *she* is the way she is. That's really 
been missing in the books so far.

>whereas H/H fans make Draco a good guy, and usually end up sticking 
>Ron with someone like Lavender and Ginny with (so I have seen) 
>Seamus. 

I ship H/H too but I'm not convinced Draco will ever becoming a "good 
guy" in canon (see above). I also don't see H/H pairing up till after 
Hogwarts - perhaps a long time after Hogwarts. I think Lori Summers' 
Paradigm of Uncertainty novel on Schnoogle.com is a great example of 
what H/H shippers see in the *potential* relationship. The fan 
fiction I really dislike is the stuff full of Mary Sue's 
who "transfer to Hogwarts" and suddenly all the boys, including Harry 
and Ron, are salivating over them :-(

Anne U
(not to mention all the NC-17 graphic shagging stories.... EXTREME 
SQUICK!!!)