Love Potions (WAS Thoughts on SHIPS)

[Sydney]

No: HPFGUIDX 44815

I'd like to second all the praise of Jessica's beautiful post.  
Shipping debates indeed focus too often on the horse-race 
aspect of romance, which (though always fun) isn't really what  
we talk about when we talk about love,  is it?

The kind of love that changes what kind of person you are-- that 
takes you out of your little boxed world and connects you to other 
people, that's both humbling and enobling...  I can't see JKR 
leaving that out.  

I can't remotely improve on Jessica's piece, I'll just give it another 
plug.  

Stupid love, though -- the kind of self-absorbed, fantasizing, 
hormonal thing one goes through at age 15 -- I think is going to 
gone into in OoP.  There's a bit of that with the Cho Chang crush, 
of course, but if I have one Book V prediction it would be:  love 
potion hi-jinks.  There's no way JKR would plug a magic artifact 
TWICE in GoF without intending it to come back in a big way.

THAT kind of passion is very familiar and it does feel very much 
as though one is the helpless victim of a chemical reaction!

My prediction of the victim:  Draco, or possibly Hermionie.  Or 
both?

--Sydney 

PS:  incidentally, as a victim of Crush-Activated Idiocity 
Syndrome, may I just say I NEED Ginny Weasley to come into 
her own?  That the objects of my affections imagine me to be a 
gibbering idiot still keeps me up at night in a cold sweat.  And 
that my gibbering-idiot persona should be the one I was defined 
by... my worst nightmare!