SHIP: Cupid's Snitch and Cupid's Quaffle

[serenadust]

No: HPFGUIDX 35580

 
Elkins,
You've truly outdone yourself this time. I haven't had this much fun 
reading a series of posts since my first SHIPPING war.
I particularly like the part of your new theory (CUPIDSBLUDGER) 
where you have the mysterious Florence Lestrange as an earlier 
version of our own, dear Hermione (I have missed the trio a bit 
during all these highly entertaining backstories).  It's all there, 
isn't it?
The late bloomer, no female friends, frizzy hair ...
The more I think about it, the more I think you're *really* on to 
something.  


Elkins wrote:


> So in Cupid's Bludger, Dead Sexy Florence is replaced by late-
bloomer 
> Florence.  Florence, who values the opinion of her male Slytherin 
> friends so highly because she just doesn't *have* any female 
friends 
> (all of the other Slytherin girls in her year are really caught up 
in 
> this whole "Marry High, Marry Young, Breed Pureblooded Children 
For 
> the Cause" schtick, see, while Flo's a rabid feminist).  Florence,
> who hasn't yet learned that charm she'll use later in life to take 
> all the frizz out of her hair and make it all lustrous and shiny 
(an 
> entire bottle of that Sleekeasy junk would surely do the trick, 
but 
> that's *far* too much work for everyday, and besides, fifteen-year-
> old Flo would rather *die* than suck up to the Patriarchy like 
> that).  Florence, who doesn't laugh at the boys' jokes unless she
> really thinks that they're funny.  Florence, whose heavy-lidded 
eyes 
> strike all of the boys her age as weird-looking and strange, and 
Not 
> At All Attractive.  (Yes, they are mad.  They're also only fifteen 
> years old, so they haven't yet developed good taste.)
> 
> In short, while Florence may be passionate, obsessive, tenacious, 
> defiant, and proud to the point of self-destruction, one thing she 
> *isn't* is considered a "good catch."



I think you've got Hermione to a *T* here.  Maybe when you're done 
with the Severus/Sirius motivational theories, you might do some 
future projections and *prove* that Hermione is destined to be the 
new queen of the DEs.  Or would that be fanfic?  Oh damn, I hate 
fanfic.
Well, you are brilliant enough that I'm sure you can find a way to 
use canonical evidence to establish the *fact* that Hermy is already 
on the road to perdition.
As it stands, she's been far too much of a "sacred cow" on this list 
for far too long, and I know that with just a little thought you can 
turn the canon in her direction and let her have it. 
Enough sucking up on my part.  Think about it, will you?

Jo Serenadust
Enjoying the anarchy