SHIP: Harry and....Susan?

[Karen Barker]

No: HPFGUIDX 131897

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hermionekitten9" 
> 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? 
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Karen:  Very intersting theory and allows me to bring up something 
that I noticed yesterday when I was watching the first film again.  I 
know the film isn't strictly cannon, but JKR has a very big say in 
what can be left out so that the film makers don't inadvertantly leave 
out something vital that seems trivial.  The only people we see sorted 
are Harry, Ron, Hermione, Draco and *Susan Bones*.  Not Neville, not 
the Patil twins, indeed no one from Ravenclaw.  And it's not even an 
alphabetical order thing, because Hermione is sorted first.  The fact 
that Susan was shown being sorted rang alarm bells in my head, 
although admittedly shipping didn't occur to me.

> 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. 

Just wanted to make a point that actually Ginny does have that in 
common with Harry.  The Prewitt brothers were Molly's brothers 
therefore Ginny's uncles.  I do find it strange though that Ron has 
never mentioned this at all.  I wonder if the Weasley children know 
that their uncles were killed by LV/DEs.  Even though it happened 
before they were born you'd still think Ron, or one of the others, 
would have mentioned it somewhere along the line.

Karen