[HPforGrownups] SHIP: Harry and....Susan?

[Christine Whittaker]

No: HPFGUIDX 131900



hermionekitten9 <kreneeb at hotmail.com> wrote: 
>>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. 

I agree with this assessment entirely.  I have never been able to see the Ginny connection in spite of the fanfic and arguments for her.  And IIRC, JKR said the relationship with Hermione is purely platonic.


>>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? 

I have always had a sneaking suspicion that Susan and Harry would get together, ever since book 1.  I don't really know why, just my "women's intuition" ;)

>snip really good examples<

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

Exactly.  Why give us so much info on a "minor" character unless there is something significant waiting in the wings.

>>Notice how both Harry and Susan have lost family members to 
Voldemort. 

I wonder if she can see the thestrals?


>>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." 


>snip<

>>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. 

Perhaps Susan's patronus will give away too much plot hints for the last two books.

>>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 never noticed this.  Good point.  I will have to think this one out more.

>snip<
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. 

Names do seem very important.  Especially in the WW.  We do seem to "grow" into our names, don't we? ;)

>>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. 

I predicted Susan as Harry's new love interest in Tigerpatronus' contest.  We will see soon though, less than 2 weeks left!

Chris (Flowerchild4)





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