Ship predictions(scenarios)

[ghinghapuss]

No: HPFGUIDX 90727

> Neil wrote:
> My first question is which came first, ships or fanfiction?  I 
can't believe that anyone upon first reading SS or CoS even thinks 
about ships unless they have been brainwashed by fanfiction.  These 
are 11 and 12 year old kids.  They will be 17 when they leave 
Hogwarts.  What percentage of people in the world marry someone from 
their graduating class?  Yet we have determined that Harry 
> and Ron must pick their future mates from either their class or 
the one directly behind them.

Mandy here:
I don't see any of them getting together by the end of the books 
either.  They're far too young and as you said very few people 
actually marry their Secondary/High school sweetheart.  College 
perhaps, but I personally would steer an 18 year old away from 
marriage. 

I think some readers fall so completely in love with their favorite 
characters, that they can not see passed the walls of the world as 
JKR has painted. It is comfortable for them to remain inside the 
bounderies of the story.  All the choices are available for them to 
pick from and the risk of curve ball from left field is reduced if 
not eliminated. I think it's very narrow minded. It is too easy to 
marry them all together. 

The only relevance of shipping in my mind is in the potential 
trouble it can cause between the teens while they're still at 
Hogwarts.  What happens after is of interest to me, but not as much 
as what can happen in the next two books.  

I don't really care if RHR get married, but I do care if their 
threesome sets up a love triangle. And a love triangle between 17/18 
year olds is destined for disaster.   

The way I see it Ron is the loose canon in the equation. He is 
crushing on Hermione and she doesn't feel the same way. If she is 
crushing on anyone, its Viktor.  However Hermione is very close to 
Harry, very close and even if you believe there is nothing between 
them, (although I do believe they are completely in love but don't 
know it and will probably not realize it until their both in their 
30's and married to other people, or one of them is dead.) even if 
you think there is nothing between them, Ron might suspect there is 
and if that happens, tragic consequences will result.

As I said before it's what happenes at Hogwarts that interest me.

Cheers Mandy