SHIPping Attitudes // Hermione's Age

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No: HPFGUIDX 55940

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Petra Pan <ms_petra_pan at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> Well, at least one shipper somewhere 
> (can't for the life of me remember 
> exactly where in Potterdom) argued 
> that if Hermione is older than Harry 
> (or did she say Ron?) then they can't 
> become a couple...'cause that'd be too 
> 'ewww.'
> 
> I really hope that there's more of a 
> basis for the interest in Hermione's 
> age than this but I've never seen it 
> articulated anywhere else either.  
> Anyone?  Does this issue come up (more 
> than just in passing) anywhere else 
> with the kind of passion it usually 
> exhibits in shipping threads?
> 

Well, I can only speak for myself, because it's an idea that would 
never hold up in a shipping debate, and one that applies equally to 
both sides of the Divide (though I'm an H/Hr who firmly believed that 
Hermione was the youngest, I'm fairly sure that there were a number 
of R/Hr supporters who agreed). 
At any rate. My "instinctive reading" of the four books told me that 
Hermione was the youngest, and that Hermione was not romantically 
interested in Ron. So having had one of the things I felt were 
fundamental to the books confirmed is suggestive to me that I have 
been reading the books properly. I know that this is completely 
illogical -- the one should have no bearing on the other -- but it 
does make me feel more confident in my judgements. I may turn out to 
be wrong about my SHIPping views, but in the meantime, when people in 
SHIP debates accuse my H/Hr comrades of "not reading the books 
properly" because we don't see Hr--->R, I can hold onto something 
that I did read correctly.

Rhiannon the RavenSlyth