"I see no ships!" and Swift analogy

[Isabelle Centeno]

No: HPFGUIDX 10383

Where do I sign up for this H/H ship? *yes I DO know it's a metaphor*


Isabelle


--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Ebony Elizabeth Thomas" 
<ebonyink at h...> wrote:
> 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)
> 
> <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <><
> 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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