Ships Ahoy/Happy Anniversary/500 Members!

[Ebony]

No: HPFGUIDX 7739

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Amy Gourley" <amy at p...> wrote:
> Hi Ebony who I recognize from the kindred spirits list!

Hi, Amy!  Glad to see you.  I'm going to rejoin KS next week... or 
today.  I thought I'd be going over my mother's house early this 
morning and would be offline, but oh well.  I'll get there when I get 
there.  :-)

You are living, walking proof of a theory I presented earlier this 
week here.  I proposed that most avid Annefans (like you and I) lean 
R/H.  At least, the ones I know do.  H/H is almost like Anne marrying 
Roy Gardner... whereas Ron is more Gil-like in that he's the "boy 
next door" type right now.

You'll see that I'm vocally H/H around these parts, although I do 
like most D/H stories and any well-written romance.  I'm actually 
writing R/H because I like "problem stories"... and I wanted to 
understand the pairing.

I remember after reading GoF thinking "R/H will happen, but I'm going 
to come away from this series feeling as I did at the end of *Little 
Women*."  After reading the 1st 3 books in a single weekend, I was 
totally convinced of H/H.  (LMM fans have no problem seeing pairings 
in children's books... you can see who'll end up with whom in the 
first book in *all* of her novels, when the kids are as young as 
those in PS/SS.)

I rather think the number of R/H fans is growing as more finish up 
GoF, and we as humans like to be "right".  I think the reason why it 
seems as if there is a proliferation of H/H arguments because many of 
the frequent posters (myself included) are shippers.

On a happier note, when I entered the site I see that we finally have 
500 members--and that this is the four month anniversary of our move 
from Yahoo.  Merry Christmas--and Happy Anniversary, HP4GU!

--Ebony