Hey everyone, my curiosity got the better of me and I decided to just post this.

Did any of you guys out there start out in a different ship? Any former R/Hrs out there? What made you guys turn to H/Hr in the end? 'm just wondering. When I first saw the 2 movies I definitely thought it would be H/Hr. When I started reading the books, I still thought that H/Hr was the best, but I was actually considering that H/G was quite plausible , but somewhere in the 3rd book I decided against it. It seemed to me like Harry and Ginny could never work out, and I was really happy when I learned that Ginny got over him because it was better for both. Anyway, enough of my blabbering, what do you guys think?

I was a very stubborn R/Hr shipper , and this site made me change , i came here looking for some lily and James fanfiction and i read somewhere the link to PoU , i read it and it changed my mind completely ..then i realized i was soo wrong and that H/ Hr was much more reazonable and rational ...after that , ive been a loyal H/hr shipper and to the end

Melody

Ps: I've changed ALL of my friends to ship h/hr as well ..and I am bloody proud of it

Wow! I have been a H/Hr shipper since... always!

But I've made my friends change their mind, even when they don't want to visit this site because they're too lazy to read in english...

Cool! Very glad to hear it! I'm really glad about you converting your friends too!

Yeah, I was an R/Hr shipper because it was "obvious" but I found that I always defended H/Hr and never bashed it and got upset with other people who did. As I grew older, I just grew to like H/Hr better. It was just more...more...more...right, I suppose. After GoF, with all those obvious R/Hr signs I thought that that had to be it, but now I'm a full-time H/Hr (and realize there are much H/Hr signs in GoF than R/Hr)

I had always prefered Harry and Hermione, I had just thought though that it was 'obvious' that Ron/Hermione and Harry/Ginny would get together. But then I visited this, and other H/Hr sites and realized that I should read between the lines more. And I thought up my idea that it shouldnt be too obvious!!! So there you go!!
I've only recently become a H/Hr major shipper though.
And now im passionately obsessed. How scary and sad.
Ah well, I like it! Its fun being obsessed with something.
I want to write a H/Hr fan fic, but I dont think anyone will read it...

~*Amanda

I wasn't a shipper til after the 4th Book. When I first read I thought that Ron and Hermione were crushing on each other. But once I read more into it I decided on H/Hr. I still don't mind R/Hr.

I've always been a H/H shipper.

Ron/Hermione has always felt wrong to me, even more so than Harry/Ginny. I have been a Harry/Hermione fan since book 1. The only time I wrote something where they were not together was because I had to stick Harry and Ginny together for the plot to work. I ended up sticking Hermione with Draco because I just could not imagine her with Ron.

Yup, I'm obsessed (especially after coming to this site)...I think I have an affliction. I've only been here since June 22 and I have over 660 posts...

When I first read the four books I never really looked into relationships, but I had always noticed that Harry and Hermione had a special bond and then I read a fanfic called Harry Potter and the Blade of Carmen-Eversor(My first one and a very good one at that) and saw how good of a relationship they had and thought they were perfect for each other. That sealed the deal, although I became a stronger and more passionate H/Hr shipper since then when I joined the H/Hr community.

~Cris~

H/Hr since the beginning!

Well, to tell you the truth, I was once a R/Hr shipper. But even when I was an R/Hr shipper I wasn't thinking "They're meant for each other! They're so cute together!" or anything...I was just thinking "Yeah, it looks like they might become something.". Well, the friend who got me into Harry Potter told me of Fanfiction.Net. I don't know when or how it happened but I've become a very very loyal H/Hr shipper. = )

Hmm, I explained this on another thread, but I'll say it again anyway: I didn't really ship anything until I came across the fanon world, but I think my subconscience (sp? sorry I have the spelling ability of a second grader) liked the thought of Harry/Hermione and Harry/Ginny. I'm just a sucker for hopeless romance girls trying to find their man, but now I realize I was just being silly (especially after the fifth book) and now I'm H/Hr all the effing way.

Always thought Harry and Hermione were perfect for each other from the first

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)

always been a die-hard harry/hermione fan

Lol, I wish I was smart enough to figure out H/Hr when I was 11...

Well H/Hr was my first ever shippy thing, and I've always been one, well after CoS anyway. Me being the weird freak read that one first! *shakes head at own stupidity*
R/Hr- I just though NO WAY. It'll be like dating your very annoying brother
H/G- I never really liked, it just didn't feel right.
D/Hr- I always HATED the thought of Draco and Hermione.
H/Hr- I loffed it! It felt right! Like they were written for eachother, I know I hate when non-pumpkinite people say that, but *Shruggs* I dunno, I have a crazed logic!

Yeah, for me I've been a H/Hr-er since I first read the books. Never anything else!

I was a half-hearted R/H shipper, and then read GoF.

I wouldn't say I'm an militant H/H shipper... I won't be so disappointed if H/H doesn't happen in the books (PoU! PoU!), but I think it's most likely. In recent weeks I've become much more open-minded; I'm reading After the End right now -the OBHWF bible - and ships aside it's really very good as a story in its own right.

But H/H will always be my One True Pairing

The first time I read HP, I had thought that maybe, there is something in store for Ron and Hermione. In particular, I kinda like the intro scene for Hermione, in the Hogwarts Express, where she was seemingly condenscending on Ron, acting like the the Know-it-all kid (she was, right...).

But then came POA and GOF, and any lingering doubt as to why I should hope for an H/HR ending went pfffttt into the air...

The way Harry and Hermione seem to share the last crucial adventures in each book, whether Hermione is physically with Harry, or Harry is simply following what Hermione has written ( as in COS, about the basilisk) , I look at it as a pattern that I hope JKR would continue with till the end.

Definitely an H/HR now.

well, i'm already 21 and i started reading the books when I was 18 only heard about it when i was 17. I had always been and H/Hr person.. never really knew what the shipping thing was about but i would always defend H/Hr to my other friends who think R/Hr is the way to go... H/G was like.... what a dreamy little girl with a crush on her brother's bestfriend would actually think as ideal.... being the mature person that i am... although i doubt that i'm that mature because I'm still fascinated by childrens book.... anyway i think it would just be to convenient.... Ron dates hermione, harry is alone so he hooks up with ginny.... that's too easy and they live happily ever after.....blah blah blah..... as for D/Hr.... i don't know where that came from although it's not far from D/G but the latter is a much cuter coupling like the romeo and juliet sort.... I guess what i'm trying to say is i HP came out the day before I was born... I would have been born and H/Hr shipper......

Lol...I dunno, I wish I could read R/Hr without barfing...oh well. Or maybe I don't...

I always kinda thought H/Hr would end up together, even before I read the books. When I first saw the movie, I just sort of assumed that H/Hr would eventually pair up because I thought it was "obvious" since he was the hero, and she was the girl. I didn't really ship it, but I wasn't a HP fan then either
Then I actually read the books, and a relationship between them totally seemed to make sense!
Actually, the first time I ever came across a R/Hr shipper, I was completely baffled that anyone would even ever think that! And then I was attacked by several of them telling me how "obvious" R/Hr is, and that the idea of H/Hr made them want to vomit. R/Hr just seem incompatable to me. Plus, they remind me too much of me and one of my really good friends (who I love dearly, but I know if we ever had a relationship, I would most likely end up smothering him with a pillow in his sleep. That is, if he didn't get to me first), fun to mess around with, but an actual relationship would be out of the question. Thats totally how I see R/Hr.
Bleh. I had something else to say, but i've nodded off like 4 times while writing this, and now I completely forget (I have a memory like Neville anyway. Stupid stoner brain!). I really need to get some sleep now. G'night.

love
Heather

Yeah...R/Hr is very incompatible.

Yuo can say that again

I definitely agree. I never thought R/Hr would go together.

WooHoo! My 100th post! Yay!

HAPPY 100TH POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*throws confetti in air and dances around*

~*Amanda

Thanks sunshinebelle, that was really special.

Although it once and for all proves that I'm obsessed beyond control. I only joined like 3 or 4 days ago. *smiles sheepishly*

LOL your welcome!!!

And join the club!! I just joined here three or four days ago, and look at all the posts ive made. Im completely obsessed..
its scary.
LOL!!!

~*Amanda

sunshinebelle, I just checked, and I joined 2 days after you. Haha, that's funny, good to know I'm not the only one who's become so obsessed with this so quickly.
*hugs fellow obsessed person*

Well...I used to be a H/G shipper.
Then I was a D/Hr shipper.

Finally I came to the one true ship, H/Hr.

I was interested in H/G because i thought that since she liked him, he would like her back, but hey, I was like 10!

I read a couple of good D/Hr stories, so I was a fan of that for a while.

Then, I think by accident I read a H/Hr story, I think by Ryoko Blue and I absolutely loved it.

There is my history.

Amanda Rose

You know, it's funny...for me, when I first started reading them, i thought Harry and Hermione would be cute, but when I read GOF and when JKR was so obvious....a little too obvious I think now, but back then i was like...it's okay, it's okay, Ron and hermione would still be cute. I was trying to talk myself into thinking that Ron and Hermione could work, but at the end? I just couldn't do it. I was like no...screw this, I like H/H and so therefore I will be rooting for it to happen! Then, to my surprise when I started surfing the net for HP stuff I found out SO MANY other people felt the same way! I was like thank GOD I"m not alone!! Now, after reading book 5, there were so many H/H moments I was in sheer bliss. I could sit here for hours listing all of them, but heck...you guys know, you've read the book! I seriously will be surprised of R/Hr happens...JKR is just TOO obvious with it and too much into trying to head us in that direction. *shakes head* Nope....I think we have a very good chance of H/H happening!

I've always liked the idea of Harry/Hermione, but I never became a fanatical shipper until I stumbled across the fandom last year. They seemed to make more sense to me than other ships. Since I found places like FA and Portkey, I've been more secure in my shipping preference than ever before. I'm surprised that I never noticed just how much evidence in the books support H/Hr and how many people shared that same love. I can stand R/Hr and H/G. Both at the same time is another story. What I don't like is the 'shipping wars and debates.' I find them completely useless. Why try and argue your points in a debate thread when most shippers tend to be very stubborn. It doesn't make sense to me at all.

Lol, Kalie...shipping debates 99% of the time don't work.

Erm... Nobody starts thinking about romance when they're eleven years old, it's usually an "ew" and an "yucky"... thats when I started reading the book (the first book) at that age. And the thought of Harry getting together with a girl just made me think "that's disgusting!!!"

But when I read PoA ::sigh:: I thought "yep, Harry has to totally end up with that girl," and the thought that Ron had a hudge crush on Hermione in GoF made me think, "nah, it ain't gonna happen mate!"

So I've been a Harry and Hermione worshipper ever since...

Dreamer~

I've always been H/Hr ever since I read book 1.

I completely agree that shipping debates almost never end in someone converting, but I think they're kind of fun. I guess one would have to be a really sure and stable shipper to do it though, or else they might get converted themselves.

Shipping debates are fun because you get to see what the other side thinks of this scene or the other and you get to make your own points...but like I said before: they never work, but maybe, just maybe, you can put a little doubt in their minds.

unfortunately, I *was* and R/Hr shipper because it was the obvious ship. But thankfully, not an official one. I never read a whole fic. I would start one then I'd get bored...their fics just never did it for me. They were kind of boring and stale ....so I decided that R/Hr ship wasn't for me. I had an idea so I typed 'Harry/Hermione' fanfiction in a search engine and Portkey came up (I just love this place!). So, after reading a few fics I knew that this was the ship for me. And now I'm a full-time Pumpkin Pie eater (and darn proud!).





LadyGranger

Shipping debates just causes more conflicts and doesn't solve everything. I wish that all people would just live in harmony!

I wasn't a Harry/Hermione shipper in the beginning. I don't know what I was though. I read mostly R/Hr fics... but really like the H/G, and then found H/Hr on ff.net, and that was the beginning of my militant phase. I tried to atone for all the R/Hr liking. So I denounced my R/HR past and became a die hard H/Hr shipper. Only... while I was writing a short fling between Harry/Alicia , I realised that I liked Alicia way too much. And thus began my quest for Harry/Girl(s).

I'm not a total H/Hr shipper. But I don't like to think about other Hermione ships. Ron is okay, if it's not Harry. Better him than Snape or Voldemort or Draco.

Living in the fandom for so long, it makes you less and less impervious to other odd couples, though some will still give me the wllies.

Hmm... Odd that I would be an admin at a H/Hr site ^.^

*goes off to do elf like chores*

I've been a H/Hr shipper from the beginning. I never liked the idea of Ron because he was too mean to Hermione, and if it wasn't for Harry, he wouldn't even be friends with her. Ron was a bully to darling Hermione, then, and everytime she would embarrass him, I would laaaaaaff
Harry seemed the only guy that Hermione could connect with. He still is. And vise versa. I read GoF before I became a part of the HP fandom, and obviously, I was a H/Hr shipper then. I thought the obvious pairing then was H/Hr, because, it's all in the books! So, I was really surprised to see so many R/Hr fans >.<

When I [re-]read the books and I see Ron and Hermione's names alone together, it just feels wrong. When I see Harry and Hermione's, however, something in my head goes 'click' and it feels so right.

I've never converted to other Harry or Hermione ships in my time as a Harry Potter fan, and I take pride in that

~the dog star

I don't know that I actually ever shipped R/Hr, but after I read GoF for the first time, I thought it was a given that they would get together. Because let's put it this way, if they were on a playground, Ron would be pulling Hermione's pigtails.

But when I discovered fandom about a year ago, the first fic (the name of which I can't remember) I read was H/Hr. It slowly got to the point that I wouldn't read it unless it was H/Hr, and continues to be that way. Now I see all the little clues JKR has put in the books, and I hope they do end up together in canon. That would make my decade.

I really can't even stand the thought of R/Hr anymore. It gives me the willies. I have read one believable D/Hr fic (Unwanted Bonds by Penelope on Astronomy Tower), and it's only believable because Hermione feels horribly guilty about her feelings, and Draco isn't a redeemed goody-goody.

H/Hr all the way!!

I seem to remember my first major fic being The Psychic Serpent by Barb. I didn't like the characterisations in that, sadly, and the second one was just bizarre! Then I read PoU, and I was smitten with the Pumpkinny goodness

I think that the PoU trilogy did did help our ship in alot of ways. I know many stubborn shippers that were brought over because of those fics. I even turned my best friend into an H/Hr fanatic because of it. She even posts here.

I never had that past where I thought this ship HAD to happen. When I first started reading HP I was like: H/Hr would be cute and logical. I was a neutral shipper, seeing all the sides and all. But the transition of POA and GOF totally changed that. The change was so subtle that not even I noticed I was a H/Hr shipper.

Until I somehow stumbled over to the fandom world. And the rest is history.

However I don't discourage other ships. I find myself at times reading some others. But the ship I can just stomach is H/G.

It just does not suit my taste at all. I try to give it a chance and have come to like two fictions, Naked Quidditch and one that I forgot.

As for Harry/ other girls as Alicia or Katie or someone else. I find them enjoyable but I remain a Pumpkineer till the end.

Ramble. Ramble. Ramble.

Go Facade! Glad to see a peaceful Pumpkineer! And, yes, I know that there are A LOT on this side, but just wanted to say that. Yay! Pumpkineers all the way!

Actually, there isnt a lot of people on our side.
Most people like R/Hr. Or at least think it'll happen. All the people I know that dont really care who goes with who, think R/Hr are going to get together because its 'obvious' (psh! I say to that!) Well all except my mom.. but then again, I convinced her to be smart and like H/Hr! lol!
Anyways, back to my point. Theres lots of them and not too much of us! But I wouldnt have it any other way!!!! This way, if H/Hr gets together a lot more jaws will drop (Which is what I think JKR is hoping for) and we will be happy! I like it small, we're like one little cozy family! Aww! I luv ya all!


*Hugs and Pumpkin Pie to everyone!* C'mere family! hehe

~*Amanda

Yeah, I think the fact that we're a much smaller group is really nice. For example, I know there's over 2,000 members here (I'm like 2,257 or something, I don't remember) but it's really cool, you start noticing the same people posting all the time. It's funny, you start to recognize people just by their avatars, we could never do that if we had a huge group. I think it's pretty cool.