What is in the box - Prank and SHIPS ( surprising and otherwise) WAS Surp

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 177129

marion11111;
> I haven't been on this list very long and am hopeless in searching 
> archives, but I always thought that SHIP (Sirius/Lupin) started 
> with the PoA movie.  The exact quote you mentioned from the book 
> was played out in the movie in a way that made people read more 
> into it.  That was a clumsy sentence, but you get my drift.  
> 
> And maybe the SHIP started before that, but that's been my 
> understanding. If anyone who's been following the fansites long 
> enough can say yes or no on this, that would be interesting to know.


SSSusan:
It definitely started long before the PoA movie. :)

Here are a few brief mentions from January 2001:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/9058
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/9161
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/10037

There was even a new poll from Jan. '01, that Rita (Catlady) remarked 
upon in the following post, which contained Sirius-Lupin as a SHIP 
option:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/10057


I distinctly remember watching PoA the first time and chuckling to 
myself over that 'bickering like an old married couple' line of Movie!
Snape's, thinking, "THAT'S gonna fuel those fires!!"

Also, one of my favorite fanfics (I don't read many, but this one 
I've read several times), Arabella & Zsenya's "After the End," was 
put out just before OotP was published in summer '03, and the 
Remus/Sirius SHIP was prominent in it.  In fact, I remember telling 
myself that if I didn't like how JKR played out the series, I'd just 
make AtE 'my' end of the series because I liked it so much and 
because Sirius was still alive & with Remus.

Since the PoA movie came out in June 2004, I think it's pretty clear 
that the Sirius/Remus SHIP was alive and very well long before that. 

Siriusly Snapey Susan