What is a shipper?

[Ebony]

No: HPFGUIDX 9428

--- 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...

LOL!  My dear Goat--those adjectives are loaded!  You give our new 
members the wrong impression of us.  Sure, some of us skip about the 
fandom like overgrown fourteen year olds (ahem!).  However, 
speculating on future relationships in the Harry Potter series is 
just like speculating on any other aspect of the plot.  To some of 
the HP4GUers here (ahem!), ship debates are just as fun as discussing 
Wand Order Theories for the millionth time.

>A word to the wise: never mess with shippers. Most of them are armed 
(and fingered, too) and arguing with any of them could be dangerous 
to your sanity.

(Still chuckling)  Excuse me?  We are not dangerous!  We are not 
insane!  Of course, some of us have better taste in our ship 
preferences than others (ahem!), and at times our posts sound as if 
we'd have a lot in common with Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil.  Let 
us have our fun!  In everyday life we are for the most part rational, 
calm and levelheaded professional adults.  Ahem.

>Like most addictions, it starts with relatively harmless stuff--
joining this club, for instance. After a while, you get curious and 
take a surreptitious squint at one of the fanfics. It's kind of fun. 
You giggle a lot. You've taken your first hit.

So now Lori, Cassie, Penny, Carole, Heidi, and all the rest of the 
fanfic writers are pushers?  LOL!  Well, then, give me my fix!

> 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.
<sighs> But it's so much fun ...

That it is, my friend.  Matchmaking *always* is great entertainment.

Besides, giggling is good for the soul.  :-)

--Ebony AKA AngieJ (who actually managed to get through an entire 
post on pairings *without* mentioning her pet ship, and therefore 
expects a HP4GU Shipper Pax medal of some kind to be shipped... oops, 
*delivered* to her front door within the next 24 hours)