[HPforGrownups] What is a shipper?

[Carole Estes]

No: HPFGUIDX 9538

I know this is an old message...but just had to respond...while stiffing
giggles even though I've read this message twice!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aberforth's Goat" <Aberforths_Goat at Yahoo.com>


> 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. There are,
> for instance, Ron - Hermione shippers, Hermione - Harry shippers, Ron -
> Harry shippers, Snape - Draco shippers, even Sirius - Ginny shippers. 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.

As Penny was saying, most shippers think they all should grow up a lot
befoer getting romantically entangled...I myself have only fantasized about
the adults in the books (well one particular adult....cough...cough...did
that cough sound like Sirius?)

>
> The word comes from relation-"ship" and is common in the weird, wild world
> of fanfiction, where horribly addicted fiction junkies add their own
> endings, continuations, sequels, prequels, variant readings, textual
> emendations, poems, songs and dance routines to their favorite stories.
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.
>
> 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.

And also are compelled to promote their favorites to other addicts.  Its a
slippery slope.  You start with a peak at PoU...Man, that was good...almost
as satisfying as another JKR book...well if that was so good, maybe I should
just see about some of the others people are talking about.  Its a long wait
until book #5 need something Harry to fill the void!

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

Isn't it though!

carole

for the newbies...fanfiction mentioned herein

PoU = Paradigm of Uncertainty
DD = Draco Dormiens
DS = Draco Sinister
ASA =  A Sirius Affair
TSTNE = The Show That Never Ends

all can be found here:  http://www.egroups.com/group/ParadigmOfUncertainty

some of the best HP fanfic on the net  (how's that for a shameless plug
coming from one of the authors of ASA)