Jumping ship (was What is no-shipping?)

[Kimberly]

No: HPFGUIDX 10202

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Susan McGee" <Schlobin at a...> wrote:
> 
> Of course human relationships are at the crux of any good story....
> but JKR has deliberately kept us away from sex...and mostly from 
> romance....she has happily married couples...Petunia/Vernon; 
> Arthur/Molly; Lily/James; Lucius/Narcissa; Cedric's parents; some 
> adult romance -- Madame Maxine and Hagrid (no one seems to be too 
> interested to discuss their romance? too adult?); a few adolescent 
> crushes. but a lot of solitary adults..Sirius, Lupin, McGonagall, 
> Snape, Dumbledore, Crouch, Moody, ..but the passion in her books is 
> about friendship, (the Marauders,  Harry, Hermione and Ron; the 
> loyalty Hagrid and Dumbledore have for each other;  the love of 
> parent for child (Diggory; Potter) and the fight for justice
against 
> evil. 
> 
>Susan

Susan, you have converted me!
I am officially abandoning ship(s) of all kinds.

When the issue first came up when I was a newbie to the board, I
kinda 
thought I was supposed to choose a side, so I chose what I thought 
would be the closest to a happily-ever-after ending for everyone, 
simply because I love all the characters too much to want anyone to
be 
left out.  But even then I said if this were the real world I'd
prefer 
that nobody got together because they're all so young.  

The more I've seen the arguments of the shippers (both sides), the 
more surreal it has all become to me.  I think you're right - the 
important relationships in these books are the friendships and 
loyalties that have been and continue to be forming.  I'd rather not, 
in all honesty, see any romances develop between the main (young) 
characters, now that I've gotten to know the 'characters' on this 
list.  Just like I didn't want Ron or Harry or Ginny or anyone to 
be left out in the stories, I now don't want any of these lovely 
listmembers to be hurt either!  If R/H is disproven, some people on 
the good ship R/H will be very, very sad, and if H/H is disproven 
there will probably be some sort of terrible cry wrenching the sky 
from the battleship H/H, so I have now decided that my preference is 
ambiguity, so that long after the stories are over everyone can 
continue to imagine what they want.

I know I'm kinda nuts, but I don't make my decisions so much based on 
what I think should happen, or even what I would personally prefer,
as 
what I think will make the most people happy.  So from now on, I am a 
no-shipper, and this is my shipless rant!

Question for Susan - now that I've jumped ship, do I get a dinghy, or 
a raft, or an inner tube or something?  If not, that's ok, I float 
pretty well on my own, I'll just stretch out on my back and relax.  
Ahhh - dontcha love a good float trip?

Kimberly,
hoping that no sides get offended by the implications of the other 
side/sides that they are delusional/demented/defective and/or 
suffering from a disorder because of their shipping preference.