The Kiss and LMM (was What is no-shipping? Anne, "Grease")

[Ebony Elizabeth Thomas]

No: HPFGUIDX 10254

Someone wrote (emphatically not I):

> > 	I have to chuckle at that first sentence after all the debate
>over The Kiss last week. I'm not interested in 14 year old's love lives
>either, but certainly a lot of people here are!

My signoff for a previous post, attached to the above, was:

 > > --Ebony (who as a Lucy Maud Montgomery fan has no qualms about
>predicting
> > > future matches for kid characters... when you're into Maud, it
>comes with
> > > the territory)

Susan put both of these together and wrote:

>uh, except that I would never have noticed "the KISS" had it not been
>for the shippers who argue that it was "significant". Percy plunges
>into the lake to see if Ron was okay. Hermione kisses Harry when
>she realizes he is okay. Same stuff. Period.
>
>I'm totally into Lucy Maud Montgomery..and would not agree with you...

Isn't it funny that as a thread progresses, attributions go shifting all 
over the place?  LOL!

No shipper here has ever argued that the kiss was significant.  The R/Hers 
certainly haven't.  The H/Hers laugh about it and wonder what Hermione was 
thinking, but the archived posts show that for the most part we agree with 
you!

I've said my students think it's extremely significant.  Cassie and others 
have taken their own polls.  Despite my ship preference, I still don't set 
too much store by it *especially* when I didn't even remember it upon first 
reading!

Penny in the past has teased the R/Hers by saying "that's 1 in the H/H 
column, 0 in the R/H", but she even has admitted that it doesn't necessarily 
have deep significance.

The kiss has absolutely nothing to do with LMM.  My tendency to ship does.  
So I guess that's our point of disagreement--though I have a few Maud-fan 
friends who are shippers around these parts, mostly sailing on the good (?) 
ship R/H.  ;-)

BTW, Susan, if you're interested in a really good and active Lucy Maud 
Montgomery list that Trina, Kelley, Barbara, and I are subscribed to, e-mail 
us off list.  We'd love to have you...

--Ebony

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Ebony AKA AngieJ
(H/H Special Agent, First Class)

"'We start by recruiting members,' said Hermione happily.  'I thought two 
Sickles to join--that buys a badge--and the proceeds can fund our leaflet 
campaign.  You're treasurer, Ron--I've got you a collecting tin 
upstairs--and Harry, you're secretary, so you might want to write down 
everything I'm saying now, as a record of our first meeting.'

"There was a pause in which Hermione beamed at the pair of them, and Harry 
sat, torn between exasperation at Hermione and amusement at the look on 
Ron's face."

--from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, p. 225, 1st Amer. ed.

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