It's All About Harry -- and various other clubs

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No: HPFGUIDX 26522

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Penny & Bryce <pennylin at s...> wrote:
> An *anti-Harry* thread?  How can that be?  I know there are people 
> who maybe favor some of the other characters, but how can anyone 
> dislike Harry?  Impossible.  Heresy, even!  :--)
<snip>
> I nominate Ebony or Jenny to come up with a good acronym for us 
> Harry fans!

I'm not Ebony or Jenny (as best as I can remember) but I'm with you on 
this one.  Unfortunately I seem to have stumbled upon a creative 
dryspell.  Some days I'm better at this.  My first thought was How 
Anyone Can Not Love Harry Is Beyond Us, but H.A.C.N.L.H.I.B.U just 
lacked--I don't know--that special ring to it.  :-)

And so I deliberated on many other possibilities, but the only halfway 
decent one I came up with was:

A.S.T.O.N.I.S.H.E.D. ([A]t [S]tatements [T]hat [O]bject to [N]ice, 
[I]ntelligent, [S]weet [H]arry's [E]ndearing [D]emeanor)

It's a bit too long, and not properly descriptive of these alleged 
anti-Harry-ites complaints, but I enjoyed the fact that the acronym 
was also the first word of the sentence.

***

Now then, regarding all the other clubs I should have dealt with 
sooner:

I'll toss in my dues for C.R.A.B., S.C.H.A.B.B., and P.I.N.E.  But I 
don't know that I could do Percy Fans United, because though I love 
ALL of JKR's characters (even the Dursleys with all their ignorance 
and prejudice), I couldn't really call myself a Percy *fan* per 
se--I'm not that dedicated, you know?

And what the heck's the name of the Lupin fan club around here?  I'm 
sure there must be one for my favorite character, right?  Just so long 
as it isn't about Lupin's sex appeal (which, for reasons you might 
guess, has no impact on me), I'd be in on that to.

-Luke