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Today’s Discussion Topic:

Relationships in Harry Potter

General Terms

• shipper n. Short for Relationshipper. This is someone who supports a romantic particular pairing.

• ship n. Short for relationship. Often referred to in more abstract terms for all particulars of a pairing and its fans.

• Ships are often designated thus:– Ron/Hermione, or abbreviated H/R– Ships can also be designated by cutesy elided

names, such as “Harmony” for Harry/Hermione. These names, in this author’s personal opinion, are a blight upon all that is good in this world.

• Shipping wars tend to be rather common among Harry Potter fans.

Specific Ships

Ron/Hermione

• Perhaps the most visible of all potential romantic relationships in Harry Potter.

• Characterized primarily by bickering, in that we-argue-all-the-time-because-we-secretly-want-to-make-out way.

• While they haven’t gotten together in the books yet, JKR has all but come out and confirmed that this will be happening.

Ron: Hermione, why is your hand on my arse?

Harry/Hermione• Also a very popular ship.

Again, referred to as “Harmony” (again, *gag*).

• Supported more by the movies than the books themselves, and by the idea that Ron/Hermione in fact argue all the time in a we-actually-don’t-get-along-at-all-and-especially-don’t-want-to-make-out way.

• Recently, Harmony fans got a little cranky over an interview with JKR and Emerson, who runs Mugglenet, when he referred to them as “delusional”.

Canon Ships

• Harry/Ginny- She’s loved him from afar since Book 2! He randomly started liking her in Book 6! They made out! They broke up! Woe!

• Lily/James- aww, Harry’s parents backstory. Cute, until they die.

• And from the WTF? corner of canon…– Remus/Tonks. Frankly, I don’t get it.

Other Non Canon Het Ships

• Draco/Ginny and Draco/Hermione. Draco has the bad boy who has the potential to be redeemed thing going on. Also, very much with the bickering:

Draco: Mudblood!Hermione: Ferret!Draco: I hate you!Hermione: Me too.Draco: Let’s make out.Hermione: …’Kay.

• Many other pairings abound, ranging from things like Harry/Luna to Snape/Hermione.

The Slashier Side of the Fandom

• Slash n. fiction revolving around or including a relationship between characters of the same sex

• The Slash and Het (for Heterosexual) sides of Harry Potter fandom generally tend to peacefully coexist/ignore each other.

Harry/Draco

• The most popular slash pairing hands down in this fandom.

• Also characterized by the Gryffindor/Slytherin, bickering, we-hate-other dynamic that you can see in Draco/Ginny or Draco/Hermione.

• Often angsty and emo.• Check out our cafepress store.

Remus/SiriusOr, “embraced him like a brother” my arse

• Takes place in the Maraders era, and/or during the later books.

• Obviously, this ship took a bit of a beating from Book 5. Also paved the way for many, many angsty death fics.

Other Slash Ships

• Range from Harry/Ron to Harry/Snape (or “Snarry” *gag*) to such rarer WTF? pairings like Snape/Lockhart.

The End!