SHIP cliches (Was: Re: H/H SHIP)

[mochajava13]

No: HPFGUIDX 79879

Well, every  possible SHIP in Harry Poter could be seen as a cliche 
done in Hollywood:
H/Hr: Hero gets the girl; best friends fall in love.  Best noted in 
When Harry Met Sally...; Clueless (based on Emma); tons of classic 
movies; Robin Hood

R/Hr: Bickering sidekicks hook up ala Star Wars Leia and Han Solo.   
A couple bickering equates sexual attraction: Indiana Jones and the 
Temple of Doom; a ton of Doris Day/Rock Hudson - or was it Carey 
Grant? - movies; The Philadelphia Story; Romancing the Stone; Gone 
with the Wind, need I go on?

H/Luna: hero sees a "diamond in the rough" girl that no one likes, 
but falls for her anyway: the Breakfast Club (Emelio Estevez's 
character falls for Alley Sheedy's); She's All That; 10 Things I 
Hate About You (Taming of the Shrew)

H/G: guy falls for girl next door/best friends little sister/girl 
he'd over looked: Sabrina; Breakfast at Tiffany's (that's more the 
girl falls for the guy she overlooked); Northanger Abbey; The 
Princess Bride (girl falls for the farmboy that's been right under 
her nose and in love with her practically forever)

Draco/Ginny: enemies/opposites attracted to each other against their 
will and fall in love/: most notably Romeo and Juliet and every 
knock-off of it, The Breakfast Club (Molly Ringwald/Judd Nelson); 
evil boy falls for good girl and attempts to reedem himselfDangerous 
Liasons

There's also girl goes off with someone besides the hero, even 
though the hero loves her (R/Hr, if Harry ever liked Hermione), such 
as Casablanca.

R/Luna: like Harry/Luna, guy falls for weird, unpopular girl that's 
right under his nose

Neville/Hermione: smart girl falls for not-so-suave guy/tutor and 
tutee fall for each other: Kind of like Say Anything or Dirty 
Dancing.


Every romance has been done before.  So what?  And why is the idea 
of friends who fall for each other so bizzare?  It happens.  Not all 
romance, yes even teen romance, is about ackwardness, shyness, etc.  
If the couple starts off as friends, there's not much ackwardness 
(speaking from experience!) aside from the first hand holding, first 
kiss, etc.  No ackwardness in each other's company, just a sort 
of "what do we do now?" thing.  The ackwardness comes from dating 
someone one doesn't know very well.  (Like Cho and Harry's date.)  
Just from my experience with dating and relationships, anyway!
Sarah