there's more to HP than the ship

[romulusmmcdougal]

No: HPFGUIDX 133958

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Milz" <absinthe at m...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Dawson" 
> <pkdawson at g...> wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Milz" <absinthe at m...> 
wrote:
> > > Wow! Emerson is catching the heat from the H-Hr shippers at 
> > > Mugglenet.com. Some of those shippers are also lashing out at 
> Rowling 
> > > and threatening never to read another Harry Potter book again...
> > > 
> > > Grapes sour much?
> > > 
> > > Milz
> > 
> > That's just silly. I guess you could call me a H/Hr shipper, 
though
> > that's mostly because I never liked Ron. But really, it's been
> > glaringly obvious since GoF and OotP that canon was R/Hr. I can't
> > believe that anyone is surprised by this.
> > 
> > ~ PKD
> 
> Oh, I've read some doozies on that site today! Everything from 
> Rowling "suddenly sprung" R-H on us to the same old, "it's always 
> been ambiguous in the books" argument. Makes me wonder if I'm 
reading 
> the same books they have been....
> 
> Milz

Well, being a closet HHr shipper, it comes as somewhat of a surprise 
for the following reason:  Ron has never impressed me as one who has 
great magical ability, nor as one that will be any kind of factor in 
the Good versus Evil aspect of the story.  Hermione, on the other 
hand, has meant everything to Harry's success in the first five 
books.  The match seemed a natural -- See some of the stuff Penny 
Linsenmeyer (sp?) has written for instance.

I have looked on the RHr ship as a childhood crush that would soon 
dissolve to make way for a budding romance between HHr.
But Jo has shut this idea down most emphatically.
In Book Six, Hermione is literally shoved out of the way and made to 
look like a second rate character.  I was disappointed by that as 
well.
Granted, the books are about Harry Potter, and it is LOVE that is 
going to be key in defeating Voldemort.
But Harry-Ginny?  What kind of spark will that produce?
Especially now that he has dumped her?

Hope that helps you understand us HHr shippers a little better.

RMM