[HPforGrownups] SHIP: How Shippers Come to Be

[Kathleen Kelly MacMillan]

No: HPFGUIDX 13961

MC/Ginny Love wrote:
>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!

Well, of course you are!  You are our excellent Marketing Director.  We'd 
never throw you to the sharks, don't worry.

*Turns to list*  See, there is differing interpretation represented on the 
Good Ship R/H.  Told ya so.

MC/Ginny LOve
>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 didn't mean to imply that that's necessarily what you were saying.  What I 
was trying to say is: That attitude is one I have seen implied fairly 
consistently and your statement seemed to reflect it.  Your statement just 
brought my irritation with it to the surface.

MC/Ginny Love:
>Before GoF, we don't see any R/H at all, not even Ron unknowingly mooning
>after Hermione.

Actually, I disagree with this.  True, we don't see any *obvious* signs of 
anyone mooning over anyone else, but I think that there is plenty of building 
of R/H tension, right from the very first time they meet.  And I was sure by 
CoS that Ron liked Hermione.  There are a lot of clues, I think.  But I think 
they've been listed before, so I won't go into that now unless someone is 
dying to argue it.

All right, I'll stop there, because I still have bunches more messages to wade 
through and I'm sure lots of fascinating replies to this thread have already 
been posted.

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

We do like it!  I'm sorry if you took offense to my original post.  I was 
rather...er, worked up...about some of the other messages that came through 
yesterday, so I may not have been as pleasant and bubbly as usual <g>.

Captain Kathy
AKA Elanor Gamgee