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

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 10425

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

Thanks, Ebony, please email me privately with LMM info....

My memory is that folks were arguing that the kiss WAS significant
and used the argument that the 14 year olds that they knew thought
it was significant.

Memory can be faulty of course, but...

Susan