Welcome ( was Ron/ Definition of "Shipper" & "Mary Sue")

[Ebony]

No: HPFGUIDX 7350

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, marty at m... wrote:
>  What do you call someone who would be interested in seeing an 
adolescent
> fling between Harry and Ron?  I think it would be a rather sweet 
added
> dimension to their friendship (future or past).  Given the strong 
> feelings that were flying around GoF between them, the jealousy, 
the 
> frustration when they were fighting, the fact that Ron was Harry's
> "thing he'd miss most," I don't think it's even too far-fetched.
> 
> Now you're going to throw me out, aren't you? :->

Welcome, Marty!

No one here's going to throw you out--all of the regular posters have 
our pet issues and opinions, and our (weird, annoying, and/or 
endearing) personality quirks.

What you've described is known as a slash pairing... Slashers are 
fans who advocate a relationship between two characters of the same 
sex in a creative work.  

Although I'm not a slash writer myself, I've found some well-written 
slash (mostly Sirius/Lupin and Harry/Draco) at ff.net.  And while I'm 
a tiny bit vocal about my support for H/H, I don't think H/R slash 
would bother me as much as the H/R ship.  As a matter of fact, it 
might work if a really good fanfic writer tried it.  Any takers?

All right, now they're going to throw *me* out.

--Ebony