What is a shipper?

[heidi.h.tandy.c92 at alumni.upenn.edu]

No: HPFGUIDX 9411

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Aberforth's Goat" 
<Aberforths_Goat at Y...> wrote:
> Welcome to the club Steve!
> 
> A shipper is a person with one or more twisted hormonal obsessions
> concerning any given combination of those sweet children in HP. 

Hey! Some people's Ships are limited to the grown up characters! Like 
those who Ship for Sirius, Snape, Lupin etc. with various Original 
Characters (OC's), Mary Sue in her various guises, or in slashy ways. 

> Within a few weeks you're living in a surreal cloud of tripped out 
acronyms
> like PoU, DD, DS, ASA, and TSTNE. People who fail to get 
professional
> therapy often end up having to deal up fiction of their own to 
support their
> habits.
"Deal up fiction?" - Darling Mike - you've created a fictional 
persona of yourself as a *goat* - does that qualify?


Also, someone wrote about the casting of "Terence Higgin"
I think I speak for many of us when I squint my eyes, shake my head 
in a very Dave Barry-esque way and say, discomfortedly, "Who?"