HP amusement
Jul. 14th, 2003 11:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockSo I was exploring various parts of fictionalley.org looking at all the Harry Potter fandom discussion [[originially in an effort to find out if Hermione had a blood type identified in the books : I was thinking of a scene where Draco calls Hermione a Mudblood, and she finally snaps and yells "I'll have you know I've got GREAT blood! It's o-negative and pristine clean! My blood could save your life, jerk!"... just a thought ]] when I happened across this thread:
http://www.fictionalley.org/fictionalleypark/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=654048#post654048
It's Harry/Ginny shippers arguing with Harry/Hermione shippers about why Ginny had a 3 year crush and then suddenly stopped in book 5.
I had to reply and say "Um, maybe because she was just ELEVEN to FOURTEEN, and it was not quite True True True Love, but maybe pershaps, a CRUSH?"
In longer, more sophisticated (I hope) phrasing.
It's really funny reading about the shippers go at each other, though, especially since I agree with neither (though if I had to pick it'd be Hermione-- at least he actually knows well and likes Hermione as opposed to Ginny whom he's not close to at all.) The Harry/Ginny shippers vaguely reminded me of Buffy/Angel shippers who argued that Joss and ME was "wrong" and "mistaken" when he broke up the pairing. These guys sounded on the verge of saying "Rowling got it wrong! It's this way!" Which is just funny, since it's her book and her way is the actual way.
**Shaka takes a moment to bask in the fact that her personal BTVS ship was beautifully vindicated in the finale with the final words of the heroine being a love confession**
http://www.fictionalley.org/fictionalleypark/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=654048#post654048
It's Harry/Ginny shippers arguing with Harry/Hermione shippers about why Ginny had a 3 year crush and then suddenly stopped in book 5.
I had to reply and say "Um, maybe because she was just ELEVEN to FOURTEEN, and it was not quite True True True Love, but maybe pershaps, a CRUSH?"
In longer, more sophisticated (I hope) phrasing.
It's really funny reading about the shippers go at each other, though, especially since I agree with neither (though if I had to pick it'd be Hermione-- at least he actually knows well and likes Hermione as opposed to Ginny whom he's not close to at all.) The Harry/Ginny shippers vaguely reminded me of Buffy/Angel shippers who argued that Joss and ME was "wrong" and "mistaken" when he broke up the pairing. These guys sounded on the verge of saying "Rowling got it wrong! It's this way!" Which is just funny, since it's her book and her way is the actual way.
**Shaka takes a moment to bask in the fact that her personal BTVS ship was beautifully vindicated in the finale with the final words of the heroine being a love confession**
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Date: 2003-07-15 06:11 am (UTC)Yes, it's very logical, and you aren't pulling your hair out every week going, 'does she? will she?' and instead you can settle for squeeing at subtext and 'friendship' moments.