[HPforGrownups] SHIP: How Shippers Come to Be

[Morsus Crustum]

No: HPFGUIDX 13873


Now that I have gritted my teeth into a fine powder, I will reply to this. I 
am fighting the urge to jump up and down and scream "I'm a R/Hr shipper! I'm 
a R/Hr shipper!" At this point, everyone is against me. The H/Hers know I'm 
not one of them, and the R/Hers are acting like I'm from Mars. I'm one of 
you, damn it!

MC wrote:
 >R/Hr shippers tend to be newer fans of the books. They went from one book 
to
 >the next, and so on, not re-reading a million times * before * moving on.
 >They make their opinions, then go back and re-read the books, pulling out
 >what supports R/Hr, and convince themselves that Is The Way It Is.
 >The idea is - there has been subtle H/H overtures for a long time. But you
 >only catch them when you *really* look. Now, obviously, there will be a
 >bunch of people yelling "no, no, I have thought it was R/Hr and I was
 >reading HP before it was cool!" or "I am a H/H shipper, and I just started
 >reading them." I know. It's just a theory. I'm certain there is an 
exception
 >to that rule.

Capitan Kathy wrote:
<I realize this is just a theory, but I must whole-heartedly disagree with 
this
interpretation of the Good Ship R/H, at least.  (I obviously cannot speak 
for
anyone on the SS H/H.)  I, for one, have read each book multiple times and
analyzed and re-analyzed them just as closely as any H/H-er, and I know this
to be true of many of the others aboard my ship as well.  As I said, I know
you were just throwing this out as a theory and I am not trying to flame you
or anything, but I had to respond because, quite frankly, I am really tired 
of
the insinuation that R/H-ers are somehow not reading the books with same
heightened perception and advanced reasoning as H/H-ers.  True, many younger
fans are R/H, perhaps because it is "the more obvious interpretation", as
H/H-ers might say.  Personally, I see just as many young fans who are H/H
because of the whole Hero-Gets-the-Girl thing, which is a less well-reasoned
position as well.>

I am not saying that R/Hers don't read the books with the "heightened 
perception and advanced reasoning as H/H-ers". At all. God, you must have * 
really * been pissed at the 'cool kid' analogy. I am a R/Hr shipper. All the 
way. I have read all four books countless times. What my half-assed theory 
was saying is thus: I think that H/Hism is born out of lack of anyting else. 
Before GoF, we don't see any R/H at all, not even Ron unknowingly mooning 
after Hermione. People who had to deal with only the first books (and wanted 
romance, no offense to the inner-tubers out there) and go thorough them 
endlessly came to the H/H conclusion. Only looking at the pre-GoF books, I 
think that Harry is a likely option, since Ron is pretty much just a git to 
Hermione before then. They are set in their ways and won't change. 
*However*, R/Hers tend to be people who read them all straight through, one 
after the other. They have all the information and can make an educated 
guess, so to speak.

Now. I am not saying that is gospel truth. I am saying that it is an 
observation that I made. Yes, the D/H, R/H (other one), No-Shippers, etc., 
are all exceptions to this observation. I'm sure there were R/H shippers 
from the beginning, yada, yada, yada. Just an idea.

MC, aka Ginny Love, who is a R/H shipper, wheather her fellow shipmates like 
it or not. Grrrr....
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