"I see no ships!" and Swift analogy

[Ebony Elizabeth Thomas]

No: HPFGUIDX 10375

Penny wrote:
>
> > Neil!  It was hilarious, but couldn't you have compared the Good Ship 
>R/H to Titanic rather than our very own SS H/H?  <g>

> > Penny (not so sure I want to be captain anymore if I must die with my 
>ship .... can I be the ship owner instead & surreptiously find my way to a 
>lifeboat?)

Neil replied:
> >Well, that was the point ... I'm afraid I'm [hesitates... flinches] 
>wavering a bit ( I think it was all that "in defence of Ron" stuff I had to 
>read while compiling the Ron Weasley FAQ).   I'm not signing up to R/H, I'm 
>just inclined to leave the shipping lane and sit in my lifeboat.  Much as I 
>love the old H/H ship, I can see her sinking without a trace.  Oh 
>dear...what have I said?

LOL on this story and all the responses!  I think it's the first 
"no-shipper" fanfic I've read and enjoyed.  I *howled* at John's Celine Dion 
imitation... what a cabin boy!  So who's our John Jacob Astor?  Our 
Unsinkable Molly Brown?

If this were the movie version of events, who are Rose and Jack?

As Rina said, this isn't all that serious.  It's really a Lilliputian war.  
Some of us are Big-Endians, some of us aren't.

And the no-shippers are Gulliver, I suppose... though it takes him an awful 
long time to travel, doesn't it?  ;-)

As for the first mate stuff, I think I'll leave that to the heavyweights.  
Penny as Captain, Lori as Cruise Director, John as the Incredible Singing 
Russian Cabin Boy, lots of worthy first mates... my, what a vessel.

I like being a recruiter myself.  ;-)

--Ebony (who is *thrilled* to see that we've picked up Heidi somewhere along 
the way)

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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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