SHIP: Harry and....Susan?

[hermionekitten9]

No: HPFGUIDX 131867

I posted this over at Mugglenet... but I would like to hear what 
everybody here has to say... that and the fact that the release date 
for HbP is coming closer.... I want to get my theories out there, in 
case I happen to be right. ;)

Everybody is saying that Harry will end up with Ginny, Hermione, or 
Luna. I don't think it's going to be one of these three girls. First 
of all, there really hasn't been any real concrete clues about any 
of these girls, regardless of what other shippers might say. In my 
personal opinion Hermione and Ginny are just, well, easy. I would 
think of it as a cop-out if Harry were to end up with one of them. I 
mean, best friend or best friend's little sister? I give JKR's 
imagination much more credit than that. Luna? I just can't see her 
in a relationship with anyone, more or less a person with Harry's 
temperament. Don't get me wrong, though. I adore these girls. I just 
don't see them with Harry. 

I ship Harry with Susan Bones. I know she isn't a major player yet, 
but I think that JKR has introduced Susan the way she has introduced 
a million other seemingly "unimportant" things. And with Susan being 
more prominent in the fifth book than all the other ones, I think 
JKR has made way for her to be even more prominent in the sixth 
book. If Susan is just to be a name at the Sorting ceremony, 
why "up" her in the fifth book? I think she is going to be important 
in some way, so why not as a love interest? 

Let's take a moment to look at this ship. First, let's look at what 
we know about Susan. We know that she is from Hufflepuff, which 
implies that she is hard-working, and is "just and loyal." She also 
had an aunt, uncle, and cousins die by one of Voldemort's Death 
Eaters. We also have a quote from JKR saying that Voldemort killed 
her grandparents. Another aunt of Susan's, who is the head of the 
department of Magical Law Enforcement, was a "fair" person who 
resided over Harry's trial (next minister, anyone?). Susan joined 
the DA during the first DA meeting. We can gather that she has a 
great relationship with her aunt, and she isn't a 
regular "Lavender." 

I think this is an awful lot of background that we have for a person 
who is going to be only a "minor" character. 

Notice how both Harry and Susan have lost family members to 
Voldemort. Susan is the only other student, mentioned in canon, that 
has. This is something that neither Luna, Hermione, nor Ginny have 
in common with Harry. It could be a bonding point between he and 
Susan. Then there is this quote: 

Susan Bones, who had an uncle, aunt, and cousins who had all died at 
the hand of one of the ten, said miserably during Herbology that she 
now had a good idea what it felt like to be Harry.
"And I don't know how you stand it, it's horrible." 
This is the quote that got me hooked on Harry/Susan. In two scenes 
in OotP featuring Susan, one is all about her telling Harry that she 
knows how he feels. Why did JKR make it a point to mention that 
Susan knows how Harry feels when for four books she has been nothing 
but a name at a Sorting ceremony? Is this a foreshadowing of what's 
to come? After all, Harry/Hermione, Harry/Luna, and Harry/Ginny 
shippers all state how their girls "know how Harry feels." 
What about the second scene with Susan, during the first DA meeting 
at the Hog's Head? The meeting wasn't going particularly well at 
first. Zacharias Smith's comments were making the other students 
doubt Harry's DADA abilities. But then Susan spoke up, asking about 
Harry's Patronus and reminding the other students that he was good 
at DADA. Had JKR not put her there, who knows where the DA could 
have gone. Also, Susan's and Harry's conversation was all about 
Harry's Patronus. Why don't we know what Susan's Patronus is? Was 
there a reason this was left out? You would think that JKR would 
mention it during the DA class where they are all learning how to 
conjure a Patronus. I expected at least a comment from Susan, since 
the Patronus charm was what got her "introduced" to Harry, after 
all. It's just curious to me, very curious indeed. 

Then there are Susan's friends. Does anyone else find it odd that 
while we have the DoM six, there is *another* group of six -- Ernie, 
Justin, Hannah, Susan, Terry and Anthony -- that are always hanging 
around each other. Their biggest moment is on the train ride home 
when they stop Draco from ambushing Harry. Could this just be 
coincidence? 

I also find it curious that we don't know who killed her family. Why 
was this kept out? Why say "...who was killed by one of the ten..." 
and not "...who was killed by so-and-so?" It seems obvious that it 
was purposely kept out. It just seems to me that JKR has put Susan 
under our radar on purpose. I wouldn't be surprised if JKR does one 
of her famous "plot twists" and has us all thinking that it's going 
to be one of Harry/Ginny, Harry/Hermione, Harry/Luna, and then have 
Susan come swoopin' down on her broom. It wouldn't be the first time 
she had surprised us like that. 

Finally, let's look at Susan's name. For the first four books it was 
all we had of her, and names can be very important in JKR's books. 
In Hebrew, Susan means lily, which suggests a connection to Harry's 
mother, and James, a form of Jacob (also Hebrew), means conqueror, 
which ties in nicely with our hero. 

I am just surprised that this ship didn't get more shippers, when we 
got a very good, although brief, picture of her in OotP and found 
out that Harry and Susan have about as much chance of happening as 
any other ship. 

kitten...TTFN