[HPforGrownups] Re: What is a shipper?

[Aberforth's Goat]

No: HPFGUIDX 9418

Heidi remonstrated,

> 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 [...]

Oh yeah, and then there are Mary Sues. I read a thread a while back that got
me hopelessly confused about those. Was the consensus that Miss Sues are
personal "inliterations" of a (female?) author? You know, some sort of quick
& easy HP fanfic glossary wouldn't be amiss ... at least until the epiphany
of our FAQ's.

> "Deal up fiction?" - Darling Mike - you've created a fictional
> persona of yourself as a *goat* - does that qualify?

Certainly not! *Jo* created the goat; I just decided to be it. (OK, OK, I'm
sorry ... but I just *had* to say that.) But speaking of fic-err-suppliers:
I haven't yet read one of yours, and I've heard they're good. Would you mind
sending along a URL?

> 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?"

Oh dear. I really *must* have got so Harry-obsessed that I've missed out on
the rest of culture. Who is Dave Barry, and do you think I could learn how
to shake my head like that, too?

Baaaaaa!

Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray, who doesn't *have* to pretend to be a
goat. No problem. I can take it or leave it.)
_______________________

"My own brother, Aberforth, was prosecuted for practising
inappropriate charms on a goat. It was all over the papers,
but did Aberforth hide? No he did not! He held his head high."