ship this
there's a funny article in the san francisco chronicle today (SPOILERS! if you haven't read HPB yet. and if you haven't, what the eff is wrong with you?) about "shipping" in the harry potter universe. any buffy the vampire slayer fan worth their salt should know about the phenomenon of shipping: it has nothing to do with boats, but rather intense focus on characters' romantic relationships (and readers' beliefs or desires about who should be having/have had a romantic relationship). i'll put a little more discussion behind the cut so as to protect the innocent eyes of those who haven't yet finished the book...
the article concerns the rabid belief of a lot of harry potter fans that harry and hermione should be in love, as opposed to what was revealed in the HBP - that harry and ginny were meant to be all along (along with heavy, if not COMPLETELY OBVIOUS hints that rom and hermione will end up together). my question is this: were there actually people who did not see these plot developments coming? it's been obvious to me that harry and ginny would one day get together when 1) it was revealed that ginny was so nervous around harry (in books 2 and 3, i believe) that she couldn't talk and 2) when harry saved her in book 3. as for ron and hermione, THAT was obvious since book 4 when they started their nonstop bickering and ron nearly burst into explosively jealous flames when hermione went to that ball with viktor krum.
HBP has revealed some more interesting potential ships: snape and narcissa, snape and lily evans, and, the most fascinating possibility to me, hermione and DRACO. i don't know about that one (surely hermione hates his guts), but i wouldn't put it past malfoy to be in some sort of bizarre, self-loathing love with hermione - it would parallel nicely with any possible relationship that snape and lily had (ie the hatred for the mudblood; draco always picks on hermione the most).
anyway, clearly, i must stop this, or i am going to become as deluded a fan as the rest of these shippers.
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he did call her a mudblood when she stopped james from bullying him in that scene in the pensieve, remember? but yes, he seems to be mostly silent on her, even while he's trashing james up and down.
Yes, but Snape never mentioned that to Harry, and went as far as removing that memory from his head to prevent Harry from accidentally coming across it.
Book 7 is going to have to be 1000 pages long.
how did that first comment get deleted?
I probably accidentally killed it when deleting some spam. Not sure what happened -- sorry about that.
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