Wow, I hope this hasn't been done already, but I just really wanted to know when people decided on their ship. I've been a H/Hr since I can remember. I actually didn't read the books until the second movie, but I thought Harry and Hermione would get together even then, when I read the books I became a definite H/Hr.

I began reading the books after the first movie, which my best friend dragged me too. (So thanks to her I'm a HP fan, I even like HP more than her... )
In the first book and movie I just saw a great friendship develop.
When I read book 2 I saw an even closer friendship that could very possible develop in something more. Since then I've been a H/Hr shipper.
But only recently I found this site, and now I'm addicted!

I know what you mean Nikki, once I found this site I became completely obsessed too.

Whew! Happy to know I'm not the only one

Darn, I just found out there was a poll like mine already. That was a bit dissapointing. Well, it's okay, the world will survive...

Book 3 made me more of a firm believer in H/Hr and after somebody pointed out that the Hippogriff symbolizes 'love'.

I've been a h/hr shipper since book one! I found myself saying "Aww. How cute." everytime I read a moment. Especially the troll and the "great wizard" parts.

I've always liked them two together. I started liking them together before I read HP. Ha... You gotta love those fanfictions

ME too!!! I knew since the first book that they belonged togheter!!

I first read SS and CoS and I didn't reallly consider shipping. A couple of months later I read PoA and GoF and I was sure of just one thing:
R ---> Hr ---> H
And of course Harry's my favorite character so I wanted them together.

I have been a H/Hr shipper since book 1 when I saw how well they worked together. I saw how Ron treated Hermione. Yes she is his friend, but his underlying reason behind the things he says shows that they are not compatable.

i became a h/h shipper when i went to the first movie when the whole "your a great wizard" speech came up. since then i just always thought they had a great connection

GoF...

My friend Mo has always been a really big fan of Harry Potter, and she got me interested, so I watched the movie with my mom. Right when Hermione walked into the compartment and Harry looked up I thought "awww!" and when the movie was over, I remembered my mom had bought me the Harry Potter book, so I picked it up and read it, only because I wanted to see if Harry and Hermione got together. Since then I've been hooked

That's cool...

Well, to be honest, I never really *thought* about shipping until I stumbled upon the Harry Potter fanon world. I came across the Sugar Quill, read an essay about why Harry wasn't the right girl for Hermione, and knew right then and there that I didn't agree. So, I thought, 'who would be the right girl for Harry?' and poof! Hermione came into my mind. They seemed absoloutly perfect for each other. Of course, I carefully went through all of the girls that Harry could be paired with (Ginny, Cho, Parvati, Lavender, ect. but no Luna because this was after GoF) and none of them matched up to Hermione.

But, after I knew that I was a H/Hr shipper, I read all of the books over and realized all of the H/Hr moments and how R/Hr just didn't go together. Of course, like I said before, I didn't even realize shipping moments/pairings until I went into the fanon world and jumped upon the H/Hr ship, so I was oblivious to Ron's crush on Hermione and there so called "moments" from GoF. I was innocent - only nine years old at the time! But now H/Hr has completely got me warped and I've come to the conclusion that I've always believed Harry and Hermione were meant to be together; it was under my nose the whole time.

I didn't choose any of these, because none of them really applied to me, and I don't consider myself a convert. My fleet just kind of picked up another ship.

And now you're in for a long and complicated story. Fear me.

I came into fandom as a R/Hr shipper. None of the other ships -- H/Hr, H/D, D/G, H/G -- even occurred to me. When I came across my first H/Hr story, my first reaction was kind of *blink*, but I read it. And, well, to be honest...it was really badly written and Hermione was perfect and Harry was a saint and Ron was evil and blech. I didn't like it at all. I started to read a bit of what I think was TiP, but I never found it plausible and I didn't have the patience to read long fics anyway. So I went about my merry way and kind of watched the Deathmarch Thread over at FA happening to other people.

Eventually some of my fandom friends convinced me to try a fic that featured H/Hr, but wasn't exclusively H/Hr. The fic was Clio's Eight Ways From Sunday, which I can't recommend highly enough. I went "Okay, that was kind of plausible." So I went and tracked down other fics and read shipper arguments, and I realized H/Hr shippers weren't coming from left field. I've always been the kind of person who doesn't ship one ship exclusively, so I decided to try my hand at writing a little snippet. And it had appeal. It was a very different kind of relationship than R/Hr. I like different.

Anyway, that's how I wound up here. I didn't so much get converted as go "ooo, nifty!", but maybe that's understandable, given the fact that I multiship. I don't think H/Hr is better or worse than R/Hr (which, obviously, I still ship too). It's just different. Different is groovy.

/long-winded
- Lisse

Never converted, just always knew of the goodness of Pumpkin Pie

i started reading the hp books about the same time that gof came out, so i read all of them in order, and i remember all through out the books i kept thinking to myself 'hermione is gonna tell harry she likes him'(i was 11, ok?) and i remember reading the chapter in poa that is titled hermione's secret and thinking her secret was she liked harry, and in cos the chapter entitled the very secret diary i found myself wishing it was hermione's diary and she liked (can u guess who?) harry(remember i was still 11) and then in gof i kept expecting harry and hermione, and when i read the kiss i was thinking 'i was right she DOES like him'....so i've always shipped h/hr(i'm 14 now)......truthfully i didnt even know there were people who actually didnt like the idea of h/hr until i went to some fanfic sites, and noticed some hostility between ideas and theorys(i was 12 then)...i NEVER thought of r/hr it just seemed too violent of a relationship, i couldnt believe people actually were against pumpkin pie..so in conslusion, i never shipped or even liked anything other than our favorite team(h/hr, if u didnt know)

exactly! ^^

That's funny, it seems that a lot of people were in a different ship before because they didn't know there was any other. It's kind of a funny thought, but anyway, I wanted to say that I really think it's so cool when people can multi-ship, I like those people because their opinions are unbiased. For R/Hrs and even us (H/Hrs) we are so sure that it'll be our ship that we even don't see where there might have been a moment between another ship. Anyway, how much sense did that make? None? I didn't think so, well anyway, I also wanted to thank all you guys for sharing your stories, it was really interesting to find out about when you guys decided on your ship.

Well... H/Hr was always dormant in my head as I was reading the books. It was something I thought would happen because I could see it clear in my head, and it was just always *there*. My shipperness didn't really come into full effect until GoF, when I got stark-raving mad at Ron for being a meanie. Then when I discovered people "shipped" and fought over the pairings, (call it debating if it makes you feel better) I wanted to defend H/Hr to my utmost. I was a H/Hr from the start, and it's such a part of me that I would be extremely disappointed if anything else happened.

I read CoS first- Me=Weird!!!

Umm...so I read CoS first, thought they should be together and I couldn't see for the life of me any R/Hr evidence. Then I wanted to see the movie so I went with my Boyfriend at the time, knew H/Hr should be together, read all of the other books, became slightly more obssessed, saw the second movie, became totaly obssessed!!
And the rest, they say, is history!

I am a loyal H/Hr shipper and I have been since I first read the books! And I still can't see the R/Hr evidence!

well i watched the first movie first cuz my dad made me go with him and my lil bro( i didnt think i would like the movie or the books)i went loved it. and i kinda thought that there where going to get to geather in either 2,3 or 4 cuz of the movie...well when i got home i started reading them that night (finished all 4 in 6 days )then by book 3 i new of sure that they had to get to geather ....hehee i talk to much

I thought Harry and Hermione sounded great.... my friend just mentioned it to me I was 17 then..... I didn't know any Harry Potter books at that time.... I've heard about it from a highschool friend but I was introduced to it in college...my aunt gave it to me as an 18th birthday gift... i thought back then was she kidding.. giving me a children's book... but i read it anyway.... and I was like Harry and Hermione are just the cutest characters in the book.... I raided all the public libraries and even went to my sister's elementary school just to read the rest of the other books..... I also got the 1st movie DVd because I wasn't able to watch it in ther Cinema.... I was totally....hooked... I knew H/Hr was just the best possible pairing... CoS was made a movie and i just had to be in the premier..... when book five came I was like..... i'd finally know who will end up with who.... i was a little disappointed about the shipping part but i guess the book was better off that way.... i mean it wasn't a romance novel after all... but a lot more indications pointed out to H/Hr in my opinion of course.... so i can't wait till book six and the PoA movie looks promising

Yeah, I agree with you guys, in all the times I read the books, I could never see a R/Hr. Maybe it was just because I was so focused on H/Hr that I didn't see anything else, but then I went to the Sugar Quill and I read their arguments and I was almost laughing, it seemed like what they were saying made no sense, less even, prove anything. Besides, some of their reasons even point to a H/Hr more than a R/Hr! Anyway, I started looking for H/Hr websites (sadly there aren't a lot, are there?) and then when I found this one and read a couple of the essays, I was convinced.

yup..... they have a lot of things to say but I'm not quite sure what they're trying to prove but hey that's them.... I really don't care much...

Hey karenkate_kitty, congratulations on reaching your 100 posts mark! Have some pumpkin pie!

In book 1 I didn't really consider pairings, but something in Book 2 just made me think H/Hr. Then as they got older as the books progressed I saw how perfect Harry and Hermione were for each other.

Oh...wow.

I originally saw the movie. I thought that Harry and Hermione would be the traditional "hero get the girl" thing. Either though they were like 11... ^.^ But at the end, I was really pleased to see them stay close friends. I loved the whole Trio. Either though, this little voice in my mind kept nagging me that there was something special 'bout them two.

I read the first book after seeing it, and the whole scene where they hug was so sweet. I loved it, and the troll thing was very *squee-worthy* too. I just kind of thought that they would make a good "traditional, no strings attached" couple. I wasn't really rooting for them or anything. You couldn't exactly call me a shipper, I was more interested in the plot anyway. Then I continued reading the series, and things started getting interesting.

I'm probably the only one who thought Ron's behavoir at the Yule Ball wasn't acts of jealousy. I don't know, I didn't see it until I foung the fandom and discovered that everyone else thought Ron was crushing on Hermione. But, after GoF, I also foung Harry's behavior towards Hermione extremly pissy, but I still was subconsincously rooting for them.

Then, I saw the second film.

^.^ What a day. The day where Frostbite Panda offically started shipping.

I was amazed by the movie, but I was even more amazed by the potrayal of Harry and Hermione's relationship. It heightened my interest, and I re-read PoA while reading various essays. And I was offically hooked. It all fit, it all made sense. I had read R/Hr rebuttals, but found myself not really jumping behind the banner. They seemed so...weak. Nothing as strong as H/Hr.

Anyways...

~pada

Yeah, that's what I always thought, that Ron and Hermione would be a really weak couple. It seems to me that they have such conflicting personalities, they could never last. They fight all the time too! I know that this reason is most commonly used but R/Hrs and H/Hrs alike, but I can't help but agree with my own ship. Fighting all the time might show tension, but tension is NOT ALWAYS a good think romantically.

I have always been a H/Hr shipper. Ever since I saw the first movie(Yes, I saw the movies first.)