Dark SHIPS [HPforGrownups] ( was Re: Possession)

[silmariel]

No: HPFGUIDX 90932


> > > Silmariel, remembering where FEATHERBOAs come from, and smiling.
> >
> > Carolyn, who so agrees:
> >
> > And what happened to that thread about Bellatrix being Harry's dark
> > obsession... something more suitable for Valentine's day methinks.


Kneasy:

> Huh. Time for a rant (or moan, depending on your point of view).
>
> It  seems to be de rigeur to shake the finger at kindly, white bearded,
> twinkly-spectacled, portly old gentlemen (just like Kneasy) for failing
> to enthuse over the speculative amorous shenanigans beloved of some
> of, shall we say, the more excitable wing of the romantic tendency among
> the membership. Ah, the follies of youth!


Oh, no, no for not speculating, just for remembering it to me, I had been 
carefully avoiding SHIP threads and you just go and talk about it. 

> To all those avid SHIPpers I say - extrapolate. Let's jump the gun on JKR
> and look a bit further ahead; what will we see? What will these people be
> in a decade or two?

Yes... but let me digress to the past before to say I'm also interested in the 
possibility that McGonadall is Lucius mother. I'd like to know that history 
(even in a fanfic).

> Neville will collect stamps (or the WW equivalent) and will never go out
> without his thermal underwear.

After being heartbroken and deciding to shield himself a little and be more 
cinic about love, Neville will discover that he can bed ladies (or whatever, 
I have no preferences) exagerating his friendship with the boy who lived, and 
he'll get advantage of being shy, quiet and nice to look vulnerable and not 
dangerous, so not to scare the ladies.

> Ron will concentrate all his energies on his true vocation - being a full-
> time Quidditch fan. The Chudley Cannons fixture list will rule his life.

So he'll be an alpha-male and get used to catch the lady on the fly... at the 
same time remembering Hermione and trying to 'care for her' in a 'friendly' 
way.

> Harry will spend his evenings down the pub, wondering why life is so
> boring these days and boring everybody else by telling them so.
> Hermione will nag - after all she knows she has all the answers, so why
> don't they listen? Harpy Hermione.

Both boring, insuferable adults will hang together and maybe lie to themselves 
pretending they are in love. Pretending, because from time to time Hermione 
will sneak out to see Ron.

Harry, for his part, after knowing Bellatrix, his infance treatment, being 
tortured by Voldemort, being tortured by umbridge and who knows else that 
could happen in books 6&7, will discover he is a masochist that will never be 
satisfied by Hermione (who is not a sadist) and will start looking for 
something else...

It can be the other way around, of course, with Hermione pretending that Ron 
doesn't step on her with other women (as if she could) and Harry discovering 
the joys of pain to her after a long  period of internal struggle, a 
beautiful euphemism for 'I feel guilty but I really want sex with him'.

> Luna will swear by horoscopes, Feng Shui, cabbage water diets, etc, etc.

Let's pray she does not end sacrificing a lover below a yew.

> Ginny. I have expectations of Ginny. I think she'll become what was
> known in Kipling's time as "a reg'lar baddun."

"reg'lar baddun" ??  

> True romance, eh? Try it with that lot.

Sirius and Lupin. As one is dead, there's no room for a future crash. 

> The pink haze of hormonal tunnel  vision soon wears off  and then comes
> the time of decision - will those cute little habits seem as sweet on a wet
> November morning as they do now? It's advisable to tell the truth. 

I know, I'm still in the age of romance but not for much time, and  survived a 
few 'true romances', so I know what happens when couples are based on 
passion. That passion dissapears.

> Memories of Bella will make Harry even more unsettled. He will fantasise
> on  what might have been - any current spouse is sure to come
> off worst in the comparison. It's not possible to compete with a dream.

No, it is not possible. If he were more prone to 'action' instead of thinking 
he might discover few dreams stand still once they have come true ('when gods 
want to punish us they give us our desires'), and be more realistic about 
dreams. But given enough years even Harry will take any action... ah, the 
follies of youth!

> No wonder the series ends so soon.
> Happy Valentines.

Happy Valentines... thanks for the dagger, I'll use it to cut trough the 
desitions to be made today. How I hate Valentines.

Silmariel