It started with my distate for OBHWF.


I have a horrible horrible habbit of predicting the endings of movies ect..

But JK, her books had always fooled me. So I figured, she wouldn't make something so obvious, because she had always been so brilliant at twists. She wouldn't kill DD in the sixth book, because that was so obvious, she wouldn't make RAB Sirius's brother, because that was so obvious, she wouldn't make Harry a Horcrux, that was so obvious, she wouldn't put Ron with Hermione and Harry with Ron, because that was so obvious...and incredbly cheesy.

God, Killing Ron, or Hermione...she would have went out with a bang..she would have shocked up...not pairing up any of the trio...she would have shocked up...and despite the fact that yes, this is Hero gets the girl...in the text it was more obvious that it would be Ron and Hermione..and Harry and Hermione got all the romantic SUBTLE scenes..

I guess I just wanted JK to be better than she was.

Like kitkat310, my love for Harry and Hermione started with my dislike for the canon couples. I think it was more to do with awful way I thought they were written in Half Blood Prince. Sure I always had a soft spot for Harry/Hermione but I really didnt care about romances and such. After Order of the Phoenix I was just excited to see who Harry would end up with, and more excited to see how JKR would write. Well I read the book and absoulutley hated everything about the romances. Like how the realationship was started by the whole jealousy thing AGAIN? I was like come on, she could do better than that. And how the whole thing was so shallow and juvenile. I dont need to read that stuff in Harry Potter books. I came on a few Harry/Hermione sites and fell in love the idea. Re-reading the books I found that she really is the one for Harry in every way. The subtle brilliance to this ship captivated me. In my opinion, the pathetic way Harry/Ginny came about just makes it easier to love Harry/Hermione.

Well stated. I think that's exactly how it came about with me; following the Half-Blood Prince. And I watched OotP (the movie) again yesterday (my parents just got it on DVD) and I still can't believe such a pathetic adaptation and movie could exist among the other amazing HP movies. And it's going to get worse (Yates who directed it is directing HBP - yikes).

~Alexius

Is the OotP movie really all that bad? Just how is it different from the book?

I'm on the fence as to whether or not to get it when it's released. I own the first 4 movies already. I suppose it makes sense to complete the set. But honestly ... should I really bother?! I am so disillusioned with all that is Harry Potter at this point in time.

If I were Santa Claus, I would put a lump of coal in Rowling's Christmas stocking!

I started when I found mugglenet. I read through the possible ships on it. To me I couldn't imagine Harry with Ginny and the though of Ron and Hermione seemed too repulsive... Then again, I was never a fan of Ron... he always seemed to be too much of a "bad friend" to me.

Anywho... Harry and Hermione just snapped into place with me and that is when I started to read fanfiction... Nothing can describe my disappointment in Rowling when I read HBP....

Well, I've watched the movie more than once and I liked it, I must say. Could it have been better? Yes. Is it complete rubbish? Not in my opinion.

As for the Santa thing...I think JK would deserve so much coal that her house wouldn't contain it, if I were Santa.

I agree.OOTP has it's moments that are not H/Hr friendly,but it's still a good movie despite some of the changes from the book. I'm definitely getting my copy on Tuesday,since my Mom hasn't seen it yet and she's a big fan of H/Hr. I've seen it about four times and it for me it got better after a few viewings,particularly after I saw it at a midnight release. The crowd I saw it with were cheering their heads off during the Harry/Cho kiss,which could have ruined going back to see the movie again,but then we have our other great H/Hr scenes after it,so the kiss becomes quite forgettable. I highly suggest buying OOTP if anyone hasn't seen it and is wondering if it's worth the money. My favorite scenes were the Order flying over London,Harry and his gang going to rescure Sirius at the DOM,some interesting friendship scenes between Harry/Luna and the DD/Voldemort fight at the end,makes the movie worthwhile.

I liked OOTP, I also think Yates did a good job creating the dynamic JK meant for Hr/R to have..(playful fighting/flirting...not making each other miserable..)

I actually don't even remember attaching myself to the HHr-fandom... I do remember finding Kate J's HarryLovesHermione website and looking at all her research/ notes/ etc., then joined her group and SNAP! the rest is history.

I got into HHr right after OotP released--read all of them because I hadn't and HHr just made sense. Began making avatars, HHr pictures, fanfics, and all that jazz. A mixture of HP and HHr even set a present life goal for me. Then HBP came in a blew my mind in the most awful sense. I think it blew all the HHr shipper's mind's generally, really; I know the group all but disappeared afterwards.

The vein in the support system and schematic for Harry always had been and always will be Hermione from the first to the fifth (and who I consider Hermione JEAN from sixth to the seventh is a whole other story...) and how Hermione continued, even with the already built stress of her own life code, to be Harry's foundation really set the tone for me after the years.

I mean, who wouldn't want that strong of a foundation to lean on in a physical, emotional, spiritual level? Leading, of course, to the desire to procure a relationship, which to me would have been obvious in the setting and situations prior to 6 and 7, to be given a spoonful of "Ronniekins" from left field.

The maturation between Hermione and Harry surpasses any and all the unreal aspects of 6 and 7. Unfortunately, for some reason, the loving foundation fell to a... I don't even know what to call Hermione Jean/ Ron's, actually. They're forced together by the author rather than, as said before, matured over a growing period of time.

Ah, I've babbled. But, that's what got me into Hermione/ Harry.

I don't necessarily "ship" by any means, but I do believe a bond of position of characters in stories.
The strongest with the strongest, the leader with the leader.

Harry is the leader of his sex. By Book Three, Hermione is the leader of her sex.

I know a lot of people who find this remedy proper, and I have always found it so myself.

On each character: I know a lot of people who observe how they mold together very well in several ways. They compliment each other greatly. I tend to find them a more "romantic" 'couple' since they are both serious, and on a faster track to maturity than most other (young) characters in the Books. I tend to see them as "graceful" and "dignified," but that's just me. Their fights are serious, and they do nothing but challenge each-other's character (ie: asking why Harry had a tendency to "save" people, in Book Five).

In short, ever since Book Three, I 'hoped' that the two would 'get together.'

The End.
First Post. Mwah.

All right, here we go.
I read the second book first, at age seven, due to a mishap on my mother's behalf (she didn't know it was a series, and bought the first book she saw). At first I was really quite disturbed by the book, I could not for the life of me get past the creepy elf-thing (Dobby), but a little while later I did read the book. After I read it I realized it was the wrong book and read the first one. At this time I thought for sure it was R/Hr and H/G, I thought it would be adorable, they'd all be related, through marriage (yes, I thought about all this, wasn't I a quirky litte kid?). Then, I read the third book, by this time I was 8, almost 9, and completely abandoned any other thoughts, I fell madly in love with the idea of Harry and Hermione together. And I never looked back. I also converted my best friend to our side.

And that's my story. ~Mia

kitkat- I, too, dreamed Jo to be better than she turned out to be. I hoped she would once again surprise us, a twist in the story. But no.
But we were led astray, deceived, we got excited, but when it was all said and done we were a bit disappointed. We wondered "Was that it?" And we had our hearts broken. At least that's, more or less, how I feel. A bit like a bad love story, isn't it?

Reach back far in my mind... I think it was definitely PoA that I first saw some things... Maybe I'm delusional but I could'nt help but see signs that pointed towards Harmony.... Then in GoF, like everyone else I read the Yule Brawl and was disguted with Ron. Actually I was disgusted with him for most of the book! Anyways, I kept thinking, JKR can't put R/Hr together they just don't FIT!

I think I became a hardcore shipper between GoF and OotP.... I was reading some fanfics and best one to me were the ones with H/Hr...

I also read His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman and kept comparing Will and Lyra to HP characters and Harry and Hermione were the closest... And to me,Will and Lyra are the iltimate expression of True Love... Trust, Understanding, Communication...

I think that's about it...

And of course, I still ship Harmony, epilogue or not...

Well, when did I begin to think that Hermione would be with Harry? I read the book (the first one) so many years ago...I can´t even remember, but somehow I knew that they were meant to be. You see, there was something about the two (Harry and Hermione ) about how I imagined them act when they were around each other that meant...liking, attraction. And then when Hermione was trapped with that Troll...WHO WENT TO SAVE HER? That´s right HARRY remembered where she was and knew that she´d be in trouble if he didn´t run to save her. He didn´t listen to Ron say no..he went. And then on the last part of the book (the part that´s not shown in the movies) when it´s only Hermione and Harry ...whenthey are drinking the potions to pass through that fire. I can´t quite remember the phrase exactly but you should go look it up.

Harry is telling Hermione that she is a great witch, so much better than him. And hermione feels radiant about that but tells him that she is only book smart, that he instead has got the power. And she says something along the lines of what is most important " .... friends and - oh harry - ! "

There´s a word before friends (it might family or trust or something like that) but what is most important aside from friends and family? LOVE...And instead of love..what does she say? She says ¨oh harry! "

And she gives him a deep hug..that pretty much wrapped up my belief of them being meant for each other.

Italicised - This, I think.

honestly when i first read the books, at age 11 strangely enough, i thought hermione was the coolest person ever and that she and harry were perfect together, i sorta ignored ron for the most part because hey, bookworm girl being super awesome and kid with glasses being the hero- how many heroes have glasses? plus i thought harry was kinda cool and he and hermione got along well together and ron was just more of a background figure who would eventually drift away or die, after the 4th book i was hoping it would be the latter
i was both irritated and confused as to why on earth harry didn't ask hermioen to the ball since she was the perfect solution

but yeah, i've been a pumpkineer since age 11 and book #1

EVER since the beginning, I had a feelig that Harry and Hermoine should be together. i mean, come on! How they hug each other, how Hermoine kissed his cheek, how they act around each other they're bit TOO friendly to be just 'brother/sister' like everyone else says.

I didnt much like Ron and Hermoine together because of the fussing and fighting. Others(my friends who LOVED those two together)thought it was sweet, i thought it was annoying.

-hugs Harry and Hermoine-
Ever since since book 1, I loved Harmony.

I think I was always a H/hr shipper at heart, but the real passion didn't hit me until book 5.

I don't care if it never happened, I still ship and support them in my own delusional way

Well, let's see...

I read the first five books in a row, and never consciously considered shipping at all...probably because I was too wrapped up in the other plot elements, and there was nothing HUGE indicated any way to me on the first reads of any of those five books.

However, right before the PoA movie came out, I became more and more obsessed with HP. I ventured online to look up things HP-related to see what everyone else was thinking, and came across MuggleNet (gag, I know) and eventually the Love Thread debates and discussions. I was amazed to see how big of a deal it was, because honestly not much of anything about romance in HP had captured my attention at all to that point. I'll admit, stupid girl that I was, that parts of GoF had me questioning Ron's feelings for Hermione, but that was as far as it went...well alright, other than Ginny's blatantly obvious crush on Harry from CoS, of course, which I thought was infantile and pathetic right from the start and always made me dislike Ginny. Moving on...

Anyway, then I started re-reading the books to look for/take notice of all these things, and kept reading all of the arguments on OBHWF vs. H/Hr. I immediately took the H/Hr side - I just thought their points and conclusions made so much more sense and were so much more insightful and intriguing than anything the OBHWF camp was coming up with. The detailed, brilliant essays that analyzed all of the symbolism, alchemy, H/Hr interactions, etc, just drew me in. And then when the PoA movie hit, I was absolutely sold. My passion for this couple only grew from there, and hasn't stopped!

Yes it was that scene just before them taking Snape's potions that did it for me as well. Actually Hermione never said or even implied that Harry was the one with all the power. She calls him a great wizard and when he says he's not as good as her tells him there are more important things than books and cleverness, things like bravery, friendship and (I'll always believe it was the word she was going to say) love. It's those qualities, Harry's courage and devotion to his friends that make him a great wizard, not him being the magical equivalent of Superman

I remember being a late-bloomer in the Harry Potter franchise, reading PS a couple of weeks before the film was released.

It wasnt until Book 3 - one of the first real Harmony Bibles when I actually noticed how much I loved H/Hr's relationship.
I read Book 4 with anticipation of H/Hr scenes.

But it wasnt until Book 5 (my fav H/Hr Bible) when I actually became obsessed, translating every single thought/feeling or even what he said or didnt say about/to Hermione as "a secret love".

Book 6 I was a bit down-heartened by the amount of R/Hr scenes, but re-read it with the idea that they were that close because Hermione had confessed to Ron that she liked Harry (delusional I know, but I really enjoyed the book that way!!)

And when Book 7 came along I was so sure H/Hr would be the ship to sail that every tiny little scene they shared together I squeeled at. And every big scene (Godric's Hollow anyone?) my heart beated so fast because I was waiting for them to kiss or confess some feelings about each other...but they didnt...

During every film I look out for even the slightest H/Hr interaction and cant wait for the next 3 to come (6, 7p1 & 7p2)!

But even now the books have finished and the ships have sailed, I'm still cleaning the decks of "HMS Harmony", thats still docked in the little town of "Harry Potter" cos I'm completely delusional and I love it!

I had thought when I first read book 1 that it looked like Hermione was going to be set up with Harry and ron was the disgusting, annoying as heck side-kick that I had hoped would improve as the books went on but of course that didn't happen. ron just got worse and Harry and Hermione grew closer.

By the start of book 4 when Harry's name came out of the Goblet of Fire and Hermione was the only real friend Harry had and ron the horrible prat turned his back on Harry when he needed support the most of course, led me to see the firm beginning of the Harry/Hermione relationship even if Harry 'looked' at other girls due to teenage hormones, only Hermione was the one he trusted and talked to about his inner feelings and by the end of book 4 I was a firm Harmonian and I hated ron's character more.

Book 5 totally solidified the Harry/Hermione relationship when she got hit with the purple curse at the DoM and Harry lost it and it took Neville to snap him out of it. Harry's world stopped spinning in that moment. It was Hermione getting hurt near death that caused it. Made me wonder what would have happened if she died right then? I was so sure he would have gone and kicked the crap out of old Moldieshorts right then and there and then there would have been no need for the Horse Biowaste Product called book 6 because Harry would have probably killed himself in agony at seeing the girl he loved die like that I thought.

I would have been happier if it had ended that way. It would have made more sense even if it were Romeo/Juliet tragic like, in a way...

How did I like H/Hr...well I guess it would always in the back of my mind that maybe the smart girl would get the 'guy' instead of the damsel in distress.

So when I became 'interested' I really disliked Harry Potter before thinking he is the cliche superhero and what's not...please don't kill me in Harry Potter it was always an assumption that the would have relationships before they find each other after all this wasn't a fairytale.

Ginny was an absolute surprise to me and got me really wish for a good end of course then the crapa-I mean epilogue just got me furious. So I began wondering around fan fiction just checking around for evil Harry The whole superhero thing still kinda bugs me and I found myself just growing attached to Hermione being the one stand by him you know the accusations and what not and hating Ron just that bit more ...then it all just clicked. I just really didn't like Ginny being the heroine and the damsel in distress made me dislike the whole series. The infatuation with the Wizarding World overcame me.

So here I am being a part of the delusional crew which is all for the smart girl not the one getting saved all the time catching the main character.

Go ahead and say it Brizo the word crapalogue. Really, it is the best way to discribe it w/o the use of a really new and charged up Expleepatron 3003... I broke my E3000 and E3001 when the Horse Biowaste Product book came out and my E3002 when Deadly Horsecrap with the included crapalogue came with it.



And when the movies for those come out, I'll probably need to get a few more along with the stocking up of barf buckets. I have a sensitive stomach when it comes to thinking on those last to crappy books.

To me, the HP series officially ended with the end of book 5 and the Harmony continues in fanfiction and I've seen much better endings for the series there then what was printed and sold as canon.

Book 5 clenched Harmony beyond arguement for me.

Obsession? I wouldn't call it an obsession per say...

Like most readers I didn't give the romance element much thought. At first it was all about Harry getting through a year without dying. However there was always this feeling I got when reading Harry/Hermione scenes.

I guess you could say it started like the so called delusional relationship. It built over time from a close friendship to something stronger and deeper. Something that eventually became love. Unlike r/hr forcing itself down your throat or god forbid should I call it sudden relationship of ginny/harry.

When did it start? Oooooh 5 or 6 years ago now. I first read GoF because I was so very bored one night and had nothing better to do (I was pretty against the whole HP movement when the first movie was first released) and while I was reading it I was immediately drawn to Harry and Hermione.
I didnt think any other ships existed to be honest, I was sure everyone wanted Harry and Hermione to get together so imagine my surprise when I logged onto mugglenet...
I loved their interaction in GoF and since I loved GoF so much I immediately went out and got the rest of the books. Harry and Hermione got into my head and I saw that they were perfect for eachother! (Too bad a certain someone else didnt... )
I found PK in 2003 and my obsession grew steadily since then.

~Bec

Ok...After the sixth book. I remember reading the book and at that time I had no idea that shipping even existed but I just thought Harry and Hermione were reallly cute but I couldn't care less about it I mean I would have laughed in a person's face if they said it was going to be Ginny and Harry. Then when I read HBP I was like, I don't get it why is Ginny here? I mean she's Ron's sister who got saved by Harry end of story. Funny thing is I missed the page or didn't notice when Harry Kissed Ginny. And it was at the end of the book when Ginny kisses him good-night my brain just went overspeed and I looked frantically through the book as if for a explanation why Ginny was kissing Harry. I was seriously confused and angry and confused! So a fuming me went on to read and by the end I was bawling a) Dumbledore died Those last pages with the trio and that last line *cry* *sniff* So then after getting weird looks about why I was bawling my eyes out for a book I flipped through and was surprised at how much I hated H/G. I was a much more plot driven person back then. So I just stopped thinking about it as I had big issues in my life then. I remember watching CoS and asking my mother why Hermione hugs Harry and not Ron. She just looked at me with large eyes and said "Uhh...she's embarassed about hugging him because he was always so mean to her that year" I was small and naive so I just nodded, but I always pondered and I thought that Hermione like Harry better than Ron and when I thought about R/Hr I felt like crying seriously! (I had read book 1-2 now)

When said issues were gone after a painstaking month I was surfing through the net when I happened to stumble onto a fanfic with H/Hr I was shocked and pleased and I absolutely loved it. I began thinking about my HBP reaction. And it fell into piece. So I began re reading and squeeing. And when the seventh book came out I was resigned and asked mum bout the ships indirectly. She said that R/Hr was probably going to get together. I looked at her shocked and then I say what about H/Hr and she replied "Uh...I think the author likes the opposites attract thing but I don't care about that." so i scoffed and she replied "The thing is Harry and Hermione are alike in many ways and different in others but they'd be nice" I left. She also said that her fave part and book was when "Hermione believed in Harry when no one else did not even Ron" And she told me to stop joking when I told her abt HBP. Anyways the rest is history...

xoxo
Hana

I've been a H/HR fan ever since I started reading Harry Potter. I started to read fanfiction when I was in sixth grade (which was like 8 years ago) and looked around for cool fanfiction. The fanfiction that I started to read was Mena Baine's stories from Hermione's World. It's quite interesting and I daresay one of the first H/HR fanfics. I started to read more and more Harry and Hermione fics on fanfic.net and then found Portkey. Now, I've been coming here for years and have stopped going to fanfic.net. They let anybody on and I know I can come here with some quality reading.

As for the books, I always noticed a certain connection between Harry and Hermione. I loved that Harry and Hermione could be together on Buckbeak in the third book, I loved that Hermione backed up Harry during the TwiWizard Tourney and I loved that Harry was so concerned with Hermione during the fifth book. I had given up the canon harmony by the end of book six...especially after the interview. Sadness.

But..I forever remain a true Harmonian.

Wow, let's see (trying to remember all those memories) I think it was around the 5th grade. When I read the first book. I have never gone over to the canon ships. Not once throughout my hp years. I have always firmly believed that this ship would have worked out. When I saw the connection that Harry and Hermione shared in the books, and although I was just 11 years old, I knew this wouldn't be the end to their chemistry. I remember when I had just entered high school in seventh grade and I told all my friends that at the end of book seven Harry and Hermione would be married, with seven kids. Hehe...

Now, that I'm eighteen, things change.

And then when I found this site (this was the first site where I could discuss my harmony obsession) around the beginning of summer in 2006 ( i still remember!) after half-blood prince and I vented and raved madly about the book. I felt so wonderful. I felt comfortable, talking and discussing with people who love this ship.

Sidenote: like many others, I didn't realize that we were the minority in the fandom.

Anyway, I still love this site. And although I am now a part of many others, I will still return to this site. Whether it may be weeks or months, I'll be here. A militant harmonian through and through.

Canon ships? What canon ships? Harmonian for life!

Kinda late. 21st december 2006.
I haven't had a good-formed opinion on the shipper question. I was kinda okay with the R/Hr stuff in books 1-6, but I haven't shipped them. But I don't know what happened, I was in my biggest fan month and I was watching a H/Hr video, which I still have with the best song, and I just snapped. 'Darn, they HAVE TO be togther.' And from that moment on, I'm a Harmiorian till I die! <3

My fixation on them? I realized after HBP and when I got on Portkey and read some great things. I can't pinpoint when I knew my heart was just with them. But I think I stumbled across a fanfiction and my heart just KNEW. And then when I re-watched the movies my heart jumped everytime those two went on. I knew I was fixed on them soley.

xoxo
Hana

My fixation started probably around December 2001/January 2002 (I was 13, and will be 20 in just over three weeks). I joined Fanfiction.net in February 2002, Fiction Alley Park in May of 2002, and Portkey about a month after it opened. I've had this account since December 16, 2002. I've also been active in fandom through LiveJournal since December 27, 2002.

Harry/Hermione has been, and always will be, my MAIN Potter One True Pairing. Secondary OTPs include but are not limited to Neville/Ginny, Ron/Luna, Bill/Fleur, Zacharias Smith/Ginny, and Neville/Luna.

I have been an active fanfic author, icon maker, RPG player and follower, and advocate for all things H/Hr. I am a fairly active member of the Anti-H/G (Abolishment of Romantic Ginny/Harry, aka A.R.G.H. on FAP) LiveJournal Community--where I get along with those of the same and other ships who dislike H/G as much (and in some cases More) than I do.

Hmm...don't think there's anything else I can say on this topic.

Nic - long time no see here in PK's forums! *glomps* I recognized your new forum display name right away!

Here's how I got started on H/H:

My fiixation on HHR started with the 3rd book, and when a friend pointed me to Portkey and I got to read all those early wonderful and scintillating HHR fics. It dawned on me that I wasnt alone in the thoughts that HRR COULD happen.

And those fics are much more endearingly believable than what everyone calls the "canon". Which is a total c@ap!