Yet another SHIPping idea...

[heiditandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 31571

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "serenadust" <jmmears at p...> wrote:
> > 
> > This is a perfect example of what bothered me so much about 
> fanfiction, that I quit reading it. Things like Hermione and Malfoy 
> getting together actually start sounding reasonable to some of the 
> readers when there is absolutely nothing in canon to indicate that 
> this is remotely possible.  
Well, why isn't there? I can certainly see that JKR might be setting 
up a situation where Draco makes a choice to turn away from blood and 
not embrace evil and opt not to be a Death Eater and follow in 
Snape's footsteps and turn spy. Why is that unreasonable? It might be 
unlikely, but they're not the same thing.


> My problem was that in reading some of the 
> reviews, people started to prefer the fanfic versions to JKRs to 
the 
> point that they ignore the world she has so carefully built, and 
> substitute the "bizzare-o"alternate version.<SNIP> 
> The "shipping wars" are fascinating and sort of disturbing to me.  
I 
> kind of thought this stuff was supposed to be "all in fun", but now 
> it sounds as if people are taking it so seriously that if JKR takes 
> her characters in a direction contrary to a shippers 
> hopes/dreams/demands, that they my actually abandon the books for 
> violating their individual fantasies. What a shame that would be.


You know, I've only heard this kind of thing from one person - a 
friend of mine, who supports a variety of ships, including some that 
would defeat each other, had lunch with someone who ships 
Harry/Ginny, which some people here and elsewhere believe is canon 
(or at least, will happen in canon). The H/G Shipper said that she 
wouldn't read the books if JKR didn't pair Harry with Ginny. 

I've never heard that kind of statement from any of the fanfic 
writers I know - and it's certainly not something I would support as 
a concept either.

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