You know, minus the part where/when you became a Harmonian shipper, my experience was like, the same. I thought Harry/Cho was amusing, but that was mainly because I was coming into hormones myself.

It wasn't until after the fifth book, and I stumbled across mugglenets---likely pairings list, and saw Ron/Hermione did I actually really think they'd be cute together. And then when I saw all the shipping wars being poured into the Harry/Hermione v. Ron/Hermione war, I picked my (the best) side.

Which is obviously, Harry/Hermione.

oh..mine started fr day one of d movie!not d book. when it came to movie 3,i was dead certain tht harry&hermione haf got it in 4 each other..
daniel&emma just confirm it by making hhr look so good onscreen.

anyway,i'm truly convinced only our ship stands...whatever n whoever says what...

Mine was the 3rd book.
yay!!

Ive been a die hard shipper ever
since. I love those two.

mine has been since the first book way back in 2001 when the first movie came out

I started right after I saw PoA in the movie theater. That's when I realized they were in their teens and hormones were about to burst!

I guess my fixation with Harry and Hermione became apparent to me in the Prisoner of Azkabahn. I thought her affections and concern towards Harry was going to bloom into something more than friendship: love. It makes more sense and more crystal clear than Ron/Hermione.

I thought H/Hr was obvious since the first time I read the book and cleverness scene. But my fixation probably started from watching D/E in the CoS hug. It was just too adorable.

My start to shipping was weird. I started writing fanfiction before I realised what a following it had on the internet and Harry and Hermione ended up together for plot reasons. Then GoF was published and I had a vague feeling that Ron fancied Hermione but Hermione fancied Harry and I liked the idea of Harry/Hermione better. Eventually came online and discovered shipping and stuck to the H/Hr side!

From the moment when Hermione was crying because of Ron'd dumb arse,I shipper H/HR,I have never shipped any other ship with Hermione or Harry ever since.

they are the only people in the main characters thet works for me being a couple.
it might end Ron/hermione but for me it has never worked out in the long run.
i prefer a more posible frindship like h/h working out to be more then friends.
i always liked that idea better.
beside, the H/H community always seems more down to earth to me, and i like it that way.
so the idea of H/H and how i see the H/H community worked out perfect for me, and never regreted one minute of becoming a H/H shipper.

It was back in 01 when PS came out in theaters. After the "great wizard" speech I leaned over to my brother and asked if they get together in the series. At the time, I didn't know the series was still a continuing thing.

I was pretty involved with other fandoms, so I wasn't as "militant" as I am now. It wasn't until I read GoF and the kiss on the cheek, where I became "delusional" with H/Hr. I admit though, it was pretty difficult trying to find a website where I could find a safe haven for H/Hr shippers.

Man it was hard, I can't tell how many times I was harassed just because I shipped Harry/Hermione.

But alas, I found Portkey in 2003 and have been a loyal member since.

I'm another one who's held no prisoners since the friendship and bravery scene...to me it's as beautiful as Sydney Carton at the end of A Tale of Two Cities, as prolific as anything Austen...

it's just, I'll say it again, undeniably beautiful.

I feel the same way. I shipped H/Hr from the start. I had doubts along the way though. I saw potential in R/Hr in the 4th book. That scared me but I've always loved H/Hr and will be deeply disappointed with any other ship.

I watched Socerer's Stone first then read it......so for me H/Hr started from the beginning. The relationship was so strong from the very beginning. There was no doubt in my mind that H/Hr would get together in the end

Libra

Yea I know it's corny and sorta' silly, but my plan's to have that scene with me when I'm on line, and the count-down's going...I wanna' read just the sentence when the clock hits 12:01--

"Hermione's lip trembled, she dashed at Harry and threw her arms around him..."

I think that's the exact line, I might be a word or two off, but all the emotion's there isn't it, everything we're all gunna' feel holding that book in ours hands...letting it go, having it...

OMG!!!!!!!!...............I still can't believe that we're getting the book in 15hrs and then it's all gonna end!

Libra

I know it kind of sad

I read PoA first in the series because I wasn't that fussy about Harry Potter, but my name was down on the waiting list anyways at my elementary library/
And since PoA is full of H/Hr goodness, well, I fell in love with them, not only as friends but I could see them getting together in future books.
Naturally when I went back to read PS/CoS, I saw even more H/Hr goodness, and I've been stuck with them ever since! [and I love it]

And with the posts just before mine: Holy crap Batman! I don't want it to end!

I think I started when we watched the first movie. Didn't get much chemistry from Ron and the moment Hermione entered the compartment, I immediately thought she was the one for our main hero. I was around 5, 6 or 7 then.

i wasn't shipping while reading the books, and i didn't watch the movies.
then, 1 year ago, i decided to explore a little the HP fandom to see what was out there and i was blown away by the sheer dimension of it.

i quickly found out that H/Hr was the only thing that made sense to me, the other fics just didn't sound right. when i stumbled across www.harryloveshermione.com there was no coming back

The story of how I became a Harmonian is really the story of how I got into the fandom in the first place. It was really all Rowling's fault. After reading HBP, I felt terribly... unsatisfied. I needed to know more. So I went to the only place I could go, the internet. The first HP cite I came upon was Veritaserum. For a time I entertained myself by reading about GoF movie junk, but it didn't hold. So I went to the forums, which led to shipping. At the time, I drifted from ship to ship gaining bit and pieces of HP intelligence as I went along. But never was I able to settle. Until I found a debate forum. As I read a few Harmonians calmly deal with tons of other shippers, I realized there might be something to this ship. So I read a few fics. and eventually found a link to Portkey. The rest is history (and very boring). I still read other stories though (I would read H/G and R/Hr but I can not, in all Siriusness, find a good one) mainly if they are Dark/Evil Harry.

Mine started when I saw the 1st movie. my sister told me that Hermione kissed Harry in the 4th book. I somehow missed the part about it being in the 4th book and thought it was in the 1st book. I was watching the scene at the end after the chess match and Hermione gives the "Books and cleverness" speech. I thought the kiss was coming. It didn't come. Then I expected it again when they were reunited. It still didn't come. Then at the very end when they were boarding the Hogwarts express I waited. But it didn't come. I was very dissappointed.

I've been waiting for that kiss ever since.

Honnestly, I didn't know anything of HP before I watched the first 2 movies. I hooked with the concept of H/Hr when I saw the good luck chat they had before Harry went off to confront Quirrell (yes, the chess game scene), then my belief in H/Hr strengthened a lot when Hermione hugged Harry in the main room after she was released from the hospital in CoS.

After that I went on to read the books after CoS and discovered a lot of stuff which was poiting straight to a steady build-up between Harry and Hermione up to OotP - something which seemed to confirm by itself in the movies. Then I guess the follow-up was a mess.

In any case, I am a die-hard Harmony shipper and I will remain so until the day I die because I believe they are compatible characters.

After OotP. I started paying attention to them, found Portkey by accident, and it's been H/HR ever since

I started reading the Harry Potter books when I was nine years old. From that time on, I don't think I ever even considered any other possible pairing other than Harry/Hermione. It just seemed to make perfect sense to me that they would be together; as far as I knew, the hero of the story always got the heroine. Maybe I grew up reading too many fairy tales or watching too many Disney movies...whatever the reason, that's what I thought.
I didn't really become a "shipper" however until about three years ago. It was the summer the Prisoner of Azkaban movie came out and the Time Turner scene only gave me more proof of Harry and Hermione's relationship. I feel in love with that scene and to this day it's still my favorite part to watch out of all the movies. I started to write H/Hr fanfiction the summer of 2005, right after I came across Portkey. I was so impressed with the quality of the fanfiction here. I'd never read anything quite like it. I think the one fanfiction that really got me interested into writing myself was "Wedding of the Century" by Starlight623. I loved that story so much and it made me want to write my own fanfiction.
Well, now that you know the story of my life...

i don't know why, but for some reason at first while reading the 1st book i was pro R/Hr (had to be personal influences) but then i was a little confused. a week later i saw the movie i was hooked. i know it sounds wrong to be proo H/Hr only because of the movie but after seeing the movie i started realizing little thing in the book to convince me more.

To this day i'm grateful for my friend who introduced me to Hp that led to H/Hr. i see them now as the perfect exa,pleof true love

My reasons for shipping H/Hr were entirely superficial. I started reading the books when I ordered one, two, and three in a box set from a Scholastic book order and I came out of book one shipping Harry and Hermione because Harry was the main character and Hermione was the only girl.

It wasn't until I started to get into the Harry Potter fandom that I started to think deeper than that. I re-read the books, actively looking for Harry/Hermione moments and found them easily. I watched the movies for the same reason. I spent so much time defending my ship (one of my best friends was an R/Hr shipper and we frequently argued over which one was better, but in a good-natured way) that I knew the moments inside out and sideways since I'd used so many of them in argument.

Eventually, it got to the point where my vision expanded to see the potential for Ron/Hermione (thanks to that friend), but I prefered Harry and Hermione. In my personal opinion, Ron and Hermione fought too much for me, but Harry and Hermione were perfect.

Before and after, all I can say is thank god for fandom, because it opened my eyes to this pairing and will support me long after the last Harry Potter movie (please, please, please).

I was the same way Karin! I started liking Harry and Hermione from the movie though. I wasn't into the HP books yet but my brother was. So we went to see the movie and I think the first time I liked the idea of H/Hr ws the troll scene because of Ron's insults towards Hermione and Harry decided to go find her (Aww! ).

I think that was it and from then on, I supported Harry and Hermione and I easily spotted their relationship within the books.

I know why I didn't fall for R/Hr and it was the same reason as Karin's, they fought too much to me and I didn't see any sympathetic moments between them until Dumbledore's funeral.

My love for H/Hr comes from how Dan and Emma play them. I realize that this is not a DE thread but this is my primary reason. I had just lived through one of the worst tv finales in history and felt totally gutted when I saw a picture of Dan and Emma at the POA London premiere and was totally gone. I then began to read the H/Hr thread on another message board and began to understand the connection that these two characters have. I must admit that while watching the second movie and the fact that Hermione didn't hug Ron like she had Harry, I blindly accepted the idea of them being together. But as I read more theories on the Internet and attempted to read other fan fics than H/Hr, I just couldn't deviate from H/Hr because I so enjoy the relationship that Harry and Hermione have in the books even though I have never read them but have only read essays and seen the movies. I believe in a love that shows respect, kindness, trust, honesty and many other qualities that I see in H/Hr and I don't find that in the other ships that others prefer. I tried to even convert to the "dark side" but alas it didn't work. I'm a Harmonian for life and nothing will ever change that.

I guess I should also have mentioned that one among the reasons why I started shipping H/Hr. Everything for me started with the first two movies before I discovered Portkey at the time preceding closely the PoA movie.

Of course we all know the magnificent on-screen chemistry between Dan and Emma, they are even more perfect than I ever imagined as Harry and Hermione. I believe THE exact moment the play really struck me strong enough to convert me into a H/Hr shipper was that tight hug between Harry and Hermione in the Main Room after she was freed from the basilisk's petrification spell. I was kinda "Wo! They already hug like that as 12-year-olds? I can imagine what they'd look like a few years later". Then I found Portkey and spent hours reading the theories and lots of H/Hr-related stuff at the same time I was discussing about the chemistry between Dan and Emma.

First time i read harry potter was in 2001!! Didn't really care for shipping until i read POA (The best potter book) and i saw the mutual respect between harry and hermione but still saw r/hr happening becaue of the obvious love/hate crap.
GOF didn't make much difference to me, order of the phoenix was the book that switched me. Hermione was in love with harry in that book, it was obvious. I sort of knew through the years that hermione and ron would be together though.
Thr films pretty much highlighted harry/hermione until OOtp for some strange reason. HBP was a confusing book, i knew then that r/hr was canon but still hoped that h/hr would acknowledge there bond.

Okay, so where did all this begin? Good question.

While I can vaguely remember watching SS for the first time like 6-7 years ago, i was more focused on the dynamic of all three, not any pairings, assuming I even cared at all. At this point, I didn't understand much about the story line, and I didn't much care. A few years later, I knew of the R/Hr phenom, but alas, I hadn't read any of the books, or cared too much.

However, about a year or two ago, I caught PoA on TV during the time turner sequence, and, predictably true to being a guy (Would rather I admitted otherwise, but alas), the character I followed the most wound up being Hermione. You could argue at this point that some part of me did the hero=Harry, heroine=Hermione, and therefore Harry+Hermione=True Love Ending, but I'm not so sure it played into this equation with such significance.

A few days/weeks/months later, I found an H/Hr/ vid to Avril Lavigne's song "Why" on YouTube. The images mixed well, and led me to two other videos, specifically, the H/Hr themed vid to "Things I'll Never Say." Suffice to say, i simultaneously grew addicted to both the video (clips dominantly from PoA), the artist (Avril Lavigne again, who I'd never dream I'd be listening to prior to that point) and the relationship offered by these two characters.

The next piece fell into play when I challenged myself to see if, as I'd been told it was possible, to read all six HP books in a week. So, borrowing them from my roommate, I embarked on the journey for the first time (failing to accomplish the goal in one week, but I didn't care by then . . . I have recently eclipsed the week boundary, too). By then, I may have already found what I'll refer to as 'H/Hr blinders,' but their relationship did have a certain quality to it in the books that I found appealing.

Finally, after starting thye books, I went out and obtained all four of the movies available, watching them following completing the books. 'Blinders' aside, I found the same chemistry you all seem to refer to (those of you who cite movies as a driving force), and soon, I started watching just those moments of the films, particularily the 'attack hug #1' (A phrase I recently coined, with the hug in OotP being 'attack hug #2) and 'I'm scared for you' scenes in GoF 9Which I still maintain holds more substance in both word and film for an H/Hr fan than a R/Hr fan . . . IMHO).

Combine all those things, and somewhere I came to the conclusion that, both emotionally and logically, these two are the only relationship that actually feels natural and makes sense. It is only after I've read DH that I've picked up fanfic and these sites, however, because my earlier ignorance kept such things off my horizon.

No other relationship has ever made sense, and even after reading the books again, I'm still a firm believer that, in addition to the idea Hermione being the best fit for Harry, its Harry who best completes Hermione. And in agreement to views expresed elsewhere on this forum, this choice reflects those qualities which I would want.

And there's my $0.02.

here is my History of how I am h/hr shipper:

When: 2001 First Hp. Movie..and then first book.
why: Because of special bond between H/hr that make me believed their is true love out there. Which is Friendship...and it is bonus with Sizzle chermistry between Dan/Emma make it more lovable me to love them.

Mine started in PoA I found so much that they got along so much better than that of Ron/Hermione which before that, I kinda thought R/hr would have ended up the love pairing because the way series often go when theres a trio, two boys and one girl. Its often the sidekick character that gets the girl, rather than what could be the main hero. But in PoA I saw something going in a different direction with the Hero and heroine moving closer together and the sidekick character and the Heroine drifting futher apart. And then I had read those interviews where JKR said it was not Starwars, so I kinda thought she was meaning that Harry and Hermione would be in love, because that is sooo not Starwars lol and it was totally going in that direction.

well since strangely enough i was only an innocent 11 year old when i first started reading the books (yay for my letter!), i didn't become a shipper for awhile, not until the fourth book and i read about the yule ball, my first thought 'harry needs to ask hermione' i was NOT happy when he didn't and quite smug when he didn't have all that good a time at the dance

OMG Caroline really that how I stated as well

When did it all start for me? Hm.. I don't remember??

I guess when I first read the first two books when I was 9, and as I am the oldest, I was kind enough to let my brother read SS first and I would read it later. Being the bookworm I am, I couldn't wait and took the book. I read both books within that month and was hooked.

I never considered R/Hr as a couple. The way Ron acted in SS just put me off. My character being the same as Hermione, all I could think was, "Who would want to be with a person that calls people names?" Then I considered H/Hr. It appealed to me because Harry was the hero of the book, and yet didn't ignore the smart, albeit unattractive, and courageous girl. It seemed the perfect match.

PoA just confirmed my suspicions. I loved the Time-Turner scene and how Ron wasn't there (evil me.. ) and stuck in bed. All those lovely H/Hr scenes... I should read that book again.

H/G as a couple never really hit me. It was just a silly fangirl crush. We've all had them, but they never really work out. You build up the image you want about the person and when you do hook up, they're totally different than what you thought. That's what I thought about H/G. Yeah, it's a nice thought, being with the guy you've always wanted, but being realistic with how relationships are, what you thought was the best thing isn't what you need or want. Hermione never thought of Harry as some all powerful wizard. She knew him as Harry, a boy that was just the same like everyone else.

H/Hr complimented each other. Their characters were strong enough to support each other without falling behind and without having arguments in the way :cough:Ron:cough: They also related to each other on a level that Ron could never achieve with either of them.

I started shipping after OoTP came out. R/Lu started to surface and I liked that idea because of the way they complimented each other as well. And the scene at the DoM with Harry and Hermione:sigh:

Hm... I guess that's why I ship H/Hr

I always expected Harry and Hermione to become very strong characters: the he and she of every wonderful story I love. Admittedly, I was interested not so much in the boy who lived and the smartest witch at school, but in the evolving people, the journey through life that Harry and Hermione represent. Of course, all that of intellectual mumbo-jumbo is just a way of avoiding saying that I shipped H/Hr from the moment I finished reading Prisoner of Azkaban. I stopped needing JKR for Harry-Hermione right then and there, which is why I'm not (visibly?) devastated at the lack of Harmony in Deathly Hallows.

On the other hand, when I think of Ron and Hermione together in the epilogue, I quickly locate the nearest trash bin and recite the litany against fear of vomiting. (That's a doubly cheesy Dune reference.)



OMG stop posting one-liners!




Really, though. Or I'll have to break out the cruciatus curse.

i honestly dont think you have you to be so rude to me and trust me you never hear an other thing i have to say on this thread again.

Well I read the books in completely the wrong order (started with GoF because I had it for xmas one year) and I was like "Aw Harry and Hermione are cute" then I read the other books and I got to the point where I was going "Aw Harry and Hermione are meant to be!"

That was when I ventured onto the tinterweb in search of HP fans who I, in my blessed innocence, thought would of course nod and tell me how right I was.
Unfortunately I found mugglenet and got oh so confused! I expected H/Hr to be all over the place, but we all know what MN is like
So then I ran a search for Harry/Hermione forums in Google (If you do that now by the way my SN comes up for the VERY FIRST result!!! Cool huh? ) and I found PK... my obsession spiralled out of control and here I am four years later telling all of you the story
Good times...

~Bec

I don't think I really cared too much about the relationships until someone told me Harry and hermione didn't get together...acutually, thats the sole reason I started reading the books...about this time last year (when I was 18...yea I'm a late one. But in my defense the first HP movie i saw was Goblet of Fire and I only went and saw it bc I didn't have to pay...you know us college kids and free stuff!) And I read the books to see why harry chose Ginny (whome i had no clue who she was...i even knew who Cho was...go figure) and what was so special about Ronald McDonald (not bashing...i promise). And I didn't see it...i didn't feel the connections. But I looked at h/hr relationship and thought if I wanted to fall in love, thats how I wanted it to be...so viola.

I have always liked Harry and Hermione from the first book, just something about brought a smile to my face, but it was more of a friendship type thing that I saw between them until I saw the first movie. When Harry Ron and Hermione get caught in the Devil's Snare after getting through Fluffy, Hermione tells the boys to stop struggling and then she tells them to trust her and at once Harry stops moving around while Ron screams even harder.

And also, in book one, when Hermione is crying in the bathroom with the troll on the loose and Harry, not Ron, remembers that she is there alone and in danger.

However I fell in love with them over the course of Book three....plain magic

i dont really have a specific date as to when i started shipping HHr, really. I've always always known that they would end up with each other (although subconsciously) when i first finished the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone. but the book that totally convinced me that HHr is/was the OTP was PoA. That was when i started reading up fan fictions about them, telling my parents about them to the point that my parents would tell me to shut up already.

And then i read the GoF which strengthened my OTP more. Same goes to OotP and (believe it or not) HBP.

now that i've read DH, i can say that HHr is still and forever will be my OTP.

okay, i started shipping them when I was seven years old...and i hadn't even read the books. what really confirmed it in my mind was when i saw commercials for the first harry potter movie.

when i was fifteen, i started reading the books and watching the movies, i was like heck yeah, they should be together!

The same goes for me. The moment Hermione was introduced I already had the feeling that she is the heroine meant for the hero, who is Harry. Since then I've always seen them as the perfect couple. And despite what book 7 says I still do.

This has been one of the funnest threads to read through! Thanks for starting it up! And now, here goes my own experience:

Um, I really don't remember when my love for H/Hr really started, but if I had to accurately guess... I would say after seeing the first movie.

And not because of their obvious on-screen chemistry, no. It took a little while after that because when the movie was finished, I was SO into it, I went online and looked it up, not really caring about any relationships.

Then I found FanFiction.net and and totally fell in love with the idea of Harry/Hermione while also reading Chamber of Secrets and Prisoner of Azkaban.

When I finally worked myself up to read Goblet of Fire, I was a bit disappointed at Ron and his stupidity in that book, but I loved how Hermione stuck with Harry til the very end.

From then on, I was a Harry/Hermione shipper, doomed for life.

To be honest.. Not until the fourth book really.. but that was only "Harry and Hermione huh? That wouldn't be a bad pairing I guess."(This is directly after all the Rita articles I'm sure) It was in the fifth book after the Cho incident that it finally clicked.

Before that I didn't ship exactly. Hey I was 11 when the book came out so, shipping wasn't exactly what was going on in my head at the time. I was just along for the ride I didn't care.. Hey at least I know better right?

I actually only got in to HP by accident. I was at a friend's house and was poking around her room while she was at the bathroom. I found the first three HP books in her drawer, PoA on top of the pile, so I picked it up. The illustration on the cover was H/Hr riding Buckbeak (although of course I didn't know that then) and my young brain just assumed that these two must be romantic partners if they were on the cover riding this huge swooping bird in the moonlight. My friend came back and I asked if I could borrow the book, as I was secretly desperate to find out more about just why everyone raved about the HP books. She said yes, so I took the book off home and devoured it in a day. I was hooked and just had to read the rest. OoTP was already out at that time, so I had four books to find and catch up on, but I had a passion for reading and managed it no problem.

Now at this point romance hadn't really crossed my mind as I'd never really considered romance in books as being possible. Not long after this I finally got internet access and discovered the wonders of the online fandom, and it was only after reading someone saying how Ron and Hermione "totally had to be together" that something finally clicked in my brain. My instant reaction (without even realising I was doing it) was to say "WHAT??? NO!! It's HARRY and Hermione you idiot!". When I realised what I'd said I was like "Hmm....okay then" and typed "Harry and Hermione" in as a Google search. I came across the HP board H/Hr appreciation thread at fanforum.com and what everyone there said just made perfect, absolute sense. I'd found my home. I've been a die hard Harmonian ever since.

My obsession must have started a bit before the fourth book had come out. Up until then, the thought of Ron and Hermione had never quite occured in my head. Harry and Hermione were always very well paired up in my head, I had the ending of the series all figured out, hehe.
But I really got into it during the summer of 2004, when I accidentally fell upon a Harry Potter fanfiction (my first) and coincidentally, it was shipping Harry and Hermione, but only as a side story.
Needless to say, I was completely taken with the idea of them together. Hook, line, and sinker.

I was struck with HHr watching the CoS movie. Hermione running toward Harry and hugging him in diagon Alley, his grin at seeing her, spoke volumes to me, and since then I've paid much more attention to their interactions in the books, even rereading the first ones to see if I had overlooked something and I found I did.