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I moved this to the "Prof Binn's Library" forum, to help decongest the H/H Shipping Forum. Hopefully this popular topic will also help call attention to the Library. ~gal-texter 29Dec2003

I found an old similar topic, Why H/Hr? What was it that got you hooked? I don't want to merge that with this one, in order to preserve the messages' continuity and thread indexes.
~gal-texter 25Feb2004


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I'm just wondering everyone's shipping background. What made you strive for an H/Hr relationship? What started it all?

I finished reading GoF in a very open-minded manner. I wanted a R/Hr relationship to happen, due to the Yule Ball scene. I felt sorry for Harry about the Cho incident, but H/Hr also appealed to me because of that peck on the cheek. But really, I have to admit that I was more of a R/Hr shipper by the time I finished that book.

Then the first movie came out. I entered my total HP obsessiveness...going on the net to search for practically anything HP. I became a frequent poster in the official site's message boards. Soon, people started posting fanfiction up there. I became hooked, because I had no other source of HP stories to live off of.

I was a very flexible reader. Not minding the different pairs (as long as they were heterosexual). But most of the stuff up there were R/Hr, H/G, and H/C. When finally, individualism came out and I read my first H/Hr fic. An H/Hr fic affected me like no other has. I felt myself getting the warm fuzzies over it, for cripes sake! So eventually, that was all I read.

Then someone suggested FF.Net, and I was a big time participant there. Later on, like this past summer, I discovered the world of FictionAlley, and am an active poster there also. And now here I am, at portkey.org

"Hi. I'm happy, and I'm a H/Hr-aholic."

happy

My first exposure to the idea of H/Hr came before I'd even read the books - Narri wrote fics for Padmé/Anakin that I'd loved so I checked her FF.N bio to see what else she'd written; the bio said she was a proud H/Hr shipper. We both already agreed on P/A, so I was sure there had to be a valid reason for supporting H/Hr as well. I didn't actively seek out H/Hr moments when I first read the books, and for a while was a professed no-shipper (largely because I did have H/Hr leanings, but didn't think it canonically likely). But whenever I came across a H/Hr moment, especially the Big Hug, I found it pleased me. I realized how much I liked the premise of childhood platonic friends growing up to love each other. By the time I got to GoF I was squeeing over little moments, like I did when I saw Hermione waiting for Harry with the toast outside the portrait hole, and twitching my lip over incidents like the Yule Brawl.

I started looking for well-written H/Hr stories and theories on the 'Net - unfortunately what few stories I did find were generally crummy, and the pro-H/Hr discussions very immature/childlike. So I bummed for a little while, until wading through the Sugar Quill's (the only major HP site I knew at the time) boards I came across a link to one of Ebony's old pro-H/Hr posts at FAP, which one SQer had cited as the most convincing argument they'd yet seen for H/Hr. I followed the link to FAP, read the post, and knew I'd come home. Around that time I'd also discovered parker's fics on FF.N - they were brilliant, and this further sealed my hope that it was possible for intelligent and eloquent H/Hr. Well-done H/Hr was dramatic, had the potential for an emotional connection that wasn't highlighted through bickering - and Hermione already understood Harry better than any girl out there. Of course she seemed the logical choice for him.

Boy am I gonna sound really lame after those nice long posts. I just thought they would be really cute together. More concrete reasons didn't come till later.

I read Butterfly Kisses and turned from Harry/Cho/neutral to H/Hr after realizing that Harry/Cho isn't nearly as sensible as H/Hr.

I'm still not quite there yet, but getting there. I love to write them as a couple though, but I still like to read other fics (including r/hr). I can't stand H/G though. Absolutely hate it. Completely goofy to me. I'm not a fluff queen (my first attempt wasn't half bad...it's here called The Gift) but I just can't keep my mind from doing twisted things to my characters. LOL. I honestly can't stomach straight through lovey dovey without a single doubt meant for each other stuff. It bores me to tears. *sigh*. I like authors like Cassie Claire, Clio (On Dark Regard) , and Purebloodgryffindor.
But H/Hr does feel like a natural progression, but I don't think it will be a smooth one.

Just my 2 cents.

About one and a half year ago I finished reading GoF and I started reading fanfictions at GryffindorTower.net. I really don't know why I started there but I kept wonderig why their fics always turned out to be H/G. I must admit, at this time I knew very little about the whole fandom at all. I was so confused by all this tiny little abbreviations and terms they kept on using. A month later or so I finally understood the concept of FAP and I read my first real H/H story. It was Circe's "Summer". A little later I found a thread at FAP that listed a few well known H/H stories and the last one on this list was Barb's "Psychic Serpent". So I read this fic and maybe a few people still remember chapter two or three of the Sequel. There is a scene, when Ron tells Harry to break up with Hermione. I'm still getting very, very angry whenever I think about this stupid so called "logical" explanation why Harry has to break up with Hermione.

So finally, I think Barb is responsible for making me the die hard H/H shipper that I am now!

PS:(Before anyone flames me: I think Barb's trilogy is very good, but it's not H/H!)

I was a sugarquiller. Yes one of THOSE people. I actually had no idea that any other couples were possible or were even there. I followed AniVega's fic ( I think ) from SQ to fanfiction.net Even then I didn't find a Harry/Hermione fic till I read a fic called " Wind Blows Backwards. In that Harry had dissapeared, and comes back as a teacher in the auror academy. There was a scene in the fic that had Harry force Hermione to cast a Avada Kedavra spell. And then he destroyed it. Now, that got me hooked into action fics. So I went in search of long fics, and it became clear pretty soon that I needed to read long fics to stay happy, so I started the long ones. And this is when I found Barb's fic . I was soooo happy. I mean realllly happy. There was H/Hr, sex and action. I looked past a lot of hated elements in fanfiction world for her writing, but when I read the Lily/Remus - It just turned my stomach. I did not get her "justification". I read past the "reasonable" R/Hr breakup... it really was that great...

I don't know ehn I became H/Hr - I think it might have been with the PS series. And maybe I was loyal to her for so long...

I was astounded a bit back on FAP. When I saw one of the posts that started the SCUSA thread I was going to try to catch up with - it had a link to barb's fic. Has something changed to make the series H/Hr?

when your a writer you get to play god for a little bit. and some times people just like to make things happen that they know will never happen, those ron and Hermione shipppers are of those sorts.

but some like to stick close to cannon, and do what they feel is right acording to the cannon. i myself just started reading things with an open mind, by the third book i had some H/H leanings, by the end of the fourth i openly dispise Ron with a firce passion unbridiled, and inversely loved the idea of Harry hooking up with Hermione. although i have read some R/H, there was only one good one in my opinion can't remember what it was called. and i finally came to my senses, and threw my hands in teh air and yelled out loud, "this is rediculous, i just can't stand it any more, not a damn thing makes sense, no ones luck is THAT bad." it was then i stopped reading barbs second serpent story. though i think i was die hard before then.

Welp, I guess most of you became PP-ers through fandom... yes, fanfics do influence us, sometimes. For my part, I always read fanfiction before I actually finish reading a book or watching a series, so with Harry Potter, I promised myself I wouldn't let fanfiction affect my judgement... and I didn't need to, because I became a HH-er since the first book. I can't really tell you WHY or HOW, but I know it was somewhere around the troll scene that it all clicked-- they were perfect for each other! So, my story isn't as exciting as most of yours, I've been a PP-er since the very beginning

Carla.

Happy Daze, your story sounds a lot like mine. Actually, almost exactly like mine. I was a late bloomer on the whole HP fandom. I only finished the series at the beggining of the past summer. I started out on the WB site and went to the message boards and read quite a few fanfics there but I never really had a preference to the ship.

It was a while until I came across a H/H ff and when i did I fell in love with the ship. The story was fairly good considering it was just on the message boards. 7th year, H and Hr realize feelings, Hr got pregnant, wormtail steals Harry Jr.,ect, ect. I really cant remember that much. But it was good and thank that author so much. H/hr just kind of clicked.

The pairing reminds me so much of the way my boyfriend and I are. We started off as friends, actually part of a trio of best friends. The three of us have been friends since elementary school. 2 guys and a girl. Right b4 we started dating, y b/f was going after another girl, the other guy was going after me and I was trying to desperatly hide my feelings for my now b/f. Its amazing how close so many fanfictions are to our story of getting together.

Anyways, I got a link to FF.net and read anything and everything H/H there. I moved on to FAP and things just kind of went from there. Now I'm the biggest H/H addict and there's no other ship that I'm as loyal to.

I really would like to thank the makers of this site b/c there hasnt been a site this devoted to H/h as this one is. Thank you so much!!

~Colleen ( who is really in the mood fo some good H/H smut )

Well, I suppose I was an H/H shipper from the first book, although I probably wouldn't have said that then. I mean, they were eleven! Trying to ship them would seem wierd. But when Hermione introduced herself to Harry and found out who he was and had a complete non-reaction, there was a little voice in my head that said, "Huh, she might be a good match for him someday." Just a little beginning, in my opinion.

As I read through the rest of the books, I noticed the friendship between H/Hr and I really liked it. The R/Hr interaction was cute, but it seemed somewhat childish to me. It actually reminded me at first of a friend I had in high school that I had a crush on. All we did was fight and bicker. Fortunately, I realized that was really all we did and that was fine for a friend, but not a boyfriend.

Of course, when I read GoF, I was actually surprised by all the H/Hr in it. I mean, there was plenty of R/Hr (or at least R--->Hr), but the relationship between Harry and Hermione really deepened in that book. Plus, it brought out some Ron issues for me, which made me think that he really wasn't good for Hermione.

Then I went searching for HP fics and found the Draco Trilogy pretty much straight off. Given the initial pairing in it (D/Hr) it gave me hope that there was an established fandom out there with plenty of fanfics for every pairing. And then, of course, the Draco Trilogy turned H/Hr and I swooned. The rest is follow-the-links-to-FAP history!

Gosh, that was a long post!

My story is a bit less dramatic than other people's. I first started thinking that Harry and Hermione would make a great couple when I finished PoA in November 1999. When I read GoF I was even more sure of it, despite the R/H thing going on. But I didn't even discover the fandom of Harry Potter until last Feburary, when I saw a link to FAP from a site. I went there, and started looking for H/H fics. The first one I remember reading was Parker's And Suddenly. I tmade me realize how possible H/H is, and how much they depend on each other. I haven't looked back since.

It's amazing to see how everyone came to ship H/Hr & love the HP books. I love reading this stuff!

Anyway, here's my story.......

I actually only heard about Harry Potter books, my mom & my sister read them & were into them. I was skeptical that I could like reading it. You see, I am a slow & poor reader. I had to get tutored in reading in sixth grade because I was so below my grade level. This is just to show you how bad I was/am.

Well the SS Movie came out & I wanted to see it. Never got the chance to. My husband & I got the DVD, we watched, we LOVED it. It was the movie that got us into the Harry Potter series. Just from the movie, I was a no-shipper. I saw some sweet H/Hr moments, but didn't think anything of them. Well, at that time my sister gave me her SS/PS book. My husband was the first one to read it. The moive inspired him, so we had to go out & get CoS & PoA. He read CoS & convinced me to start reading these books.

It took me FOREVER to get through SS/PS because I was very doubtful. Then I started reading CoS, I got through it faster.....it started to intrigue me. Then I read PoA......I was hooked.....I loved it!!!! I think this was when I started shipping H/Hr because I could see their friendship blossoming into something more. We drove an hour to the nearest city (we live in a small town) to get GoF since our Wal-Mart didn't have it at the moment. I insisted that I read GoF first because my husband read CoS & PoA first. Well, I read it from 4PM to 6AM non-stop! That was the fastest I've ever read a book!

Anyway, GoF solidified my support for H/Hr with that Veela scene at the Quidditch World Cup. The kiss on the cheek was cute too. After that, I started looking for fics on FF.net & then came to FAP & SCUSA. And now I'm here!

I hope that y'all like my story! Sorry that it's sooooo LONG!!!!!

See ya!

My story is kind of monotonous, really. As some know, the first HP book I ever read was PoA. I had no idea other HP books existed, really. My uncle just gave it to me and I just looked at it. My immediate reaction was to say, "Harry Potter? What on earth is Harry Potter?" As I live in a small island (Puerto Rico) and even though we belong to the US, things like that just never grow that big here. So, there wasn't much talk about HP down here. Anyway, as I read the summary, I became interested in the book. By the time I finished the book (3 hours) I was very much addicted to it, and from the very first time I read it, I thought that Harry and Hermione clicked instantly.

So I found out there were other HP books and went to buy them. Reading them only PROVED that Harry/Hermione was they way things were headed. Especially GoF too, it's packed with H/Hr and me being a person who likes to read between the lines, I got it all figured out and my mind stayed on H/Hr.

Afterwards I started looking for fanfics and read a lot of them over at FF.net. Then I was in a Yahoo!Chat with some friends and they insisted on me reading Cassie Claire's Trilogy and afterwards, I found SCUSA. I got an e-mail talking to me about this site and here me be! A rabid H/Hr shipper.

Whew... well that's my story.
~Blue

You actually remember the story that made you a H/Hr-shipper??
*envies them all* I don't.
My brother got book one from is godfather and in the beginning it disappeared in the shelves. Then I finally managed to read it and I thought it wasn't *that* great ...
I think it ís RyokoBlue's (yeah, she haunts me) fault (or story) that made me a H/Hr-shipper, but I don't actually remember ...
But, what I remember, is, that it hit me like a lightning after reading book 4, which I borrowed from a friend: "Hey, why is it that Ron seems to like Hermione ... why is it that Ron doesn't like Harry ..." Wait, that doesn't sound right.
Anyway, I went searching for fanfiction @ ff.net and stumbled over Ryoko's story "All that she wants" ... rest is history.

ok i can't remember alot of things but i do remember that according to my research JK has only said that Ron has a thing for HErmione but she doesn't have any feelings for that jerk. But she also said the Harry needs her badly, if that isn't a dead giveaway for H/H then i'm a pink and red hampster with beady blue eyes and big feet.

hi!

I'm the newest newbie and this is my story...

I started reading the books back to back after HPSS came out last year. Even then I felt like Harry/Hermione would be cute together and I tried to ignore the supposed R/Hr moments. Then around September this year I discovered FAP and subsequently HMS Pumpkin Pie, and there was no turning back for me. The first H/H fic I've ever read was called 'I love...' (can't remember the author) and it sort of sealed my faith towards the great pumpkin. Then I read The Psychic Serpent series but couldn't finish it because of the way it turns out. Thank goodness I've found other fics like the Draco series and TiP, which never failed to make me feel all squee-some towards H/H.

Enough about my boring history...off to read some H/H fluff!

Hmmm. It was such a looooooooong time ago - when I first read PS. That must have been late 1998/early 1999. I read The Hug. I shipped H/Hr.
I didn't discover the wonderful fandom until just after GOF came out, I tyoed in Harry Potter in a search engine and bam! I found harrypotter.ws (if anyone remembers that place, tell me!) There, through the MB's I found fanfiction.net. The I was told about even better fanfics and someone pointed me in the direction of Cassie Claire's DD and told me to read it at schnoogle.com. I found FAP, I joined, I found the glorious HMS Pumpkin Pie.
I came, I saw, I ate pie. That's my tracking.

I have always loved romace. And when I first read HP in the summer of 2001 (I was late coming... and regret that.) and got to the Journey from Platform Nine and Three- Quarters, I knew. I sat throught the entire time while reading the books, waiting for some nice interaction between Harry and Hermione. And then I went to a site while looking about and the first HP fanfic I read was HP/HG. I thought, "Great! I have to read it!" And thus my fanness started. So, I've rooted for them since I first read, but now I'm just giddy! I can't wait until all of the books come out, because I want my H/H!

well for me it took a while...

by the time I finished GoF i still had no ship other than AD/MM (did anyone ELSE see their little smile-exchange at the end of movie-CoS?)

anyway it was when I watched the first movie that I started to see the light.
That amazing chemistry that Dan and Emma share is just...er, amazing...
i started to lean towards H/Hr immediately after. I'd start looking up some H/Hr fic over FF.net but most weren't all that top-quality so i stoppped soon after.
I re-read PoA and i began to pick up little shippy hints here and there. It was a slow process, but CoS the movie totally sealed the deal for me! just from the opening scenes of Harry looking at his photo album-with that pic of the trio, and Hermione is SO close to him! *sigh* and then all the way thru with the hand-caress and then that hug(!!!)...
That's when I became a fully-fledged H/Hr shipper, writing fanfics, joining fanlistings and finally discovering portkey.org and FAP

now i dunno what i'd do without the support of other H/Hr shippers. Knowing that they've seen the same signs as I have and just *know* that H/Hr is gonna work out!

I think it's a matter of the deeply engrained desire in me to see the hero get the girl. As much as I adore Ron and fervently hope he's not the one to kick it (as I suspect he might be), I just want to see Harry with the best woman possible. And for him, I feel Hermione just is. She doesn't idolize him, she accepts him as Harry, not the Boy Who Lived, faults and all. That's what he needs. Ginny puts him on too much of a pedestal, Cho doesn't know him at all beyond the stories and legends. Any other girl would be the same. Except Hermione.

Wishing for H/Hr kisses in the future....

QUOTE (Kristen Elizabeth @ Jan 1 2003, 03:28 PM)

I think it's a matter of the deeply engrained desire in me to see the hero get the girl. <snip> I just want to see Harry with the best woman possible. And for him, I feel Hermione just is. She doesn't idolize him, she accepts him as Harry, not the Boy Who Lived, faults and all. That's what he needs.

*hugs Kristen, hoping she doesn't mind terribly*

You've just summed up my feelings on this ship almost perfectly. Welcome!

(I very much enjoy 'An Organ of Fire,' by the way.)

It really is interesting reading everyone's journey stories - among other things, seeing how everyone else got here doesn't make the fact that you got here as well seem so odd.

Hmmmm...Thats A Really GOOD Question....

Well I First Thought R/Hr Was Good....Well....Obviously...I Do Not Think So Anymore...

My First Pairing Idea...H/G...R/Hr...

Then...

H/Ch....R/Hr...

THEN

H/Hr...R/ANyone Besides HR

How This Became...Im Not To Sure...I Think THe Idea Of R/Hr Was Ruined When I Read A Story That Showed Them Snogging ALOT In DETAIL...After That I Started To Read H/hR Stories And Thought Those Two Were Meant For Each Other...I Think Thats My Story...

oh, im ashamed to say i didn't read any of the books until abouta month before SS/PS came out.

but i think we can all safely blame my parents for that. im a Christian, and as most of you may know, HP isnt exactly popular among we churchgoers. well, my parents are some of those types that feel HP is evil and whatnot... but here i am, living proof that teenagers are incurably rebellious.

ahaha. well anyways, that kept me away from it for quite sometime. what perked my interest was an article in AmericanGirl, an interview with emma watson concerning the upcoming SS/PS movie. i think i read that thing about 8 times before fully deciding the entire thing looked deliciously interesting. i confided in my friend silvia, who confessed that it seemed interesting as well... her rents had the same evil-HP ideas you see.

but so then i was in the bookstore a little while later and decided, ah what the hell, picked up SS/PS and absolutely fell in love with HP.

i then proceeded to buy the first three in paperback and smuggle them into my house in my purse. i read CoS and PoA in one night, and hid them under my pillow. big mistake. me dad found them and threw them away! (all my money down the drain!)

but as for the h/hr thing, i figured it out immediately, just from SS/PS. it might of had to do with the fact that i never really felt too close to ron, or his character, unlike the majority of the readers. but nevertheless, i thought H/HR from their meeting on the train and the hug in the end sealed my deal. the movie came out and i convinced my sister to take me, and boy was i delighted.

my parents have sort of accepted my HP fanness, but i went out and bought the paperbacks all over again, GoF too this time, since it finally came out in paperback. now im more careful. theyre in a photo box on the top shelf of my closet under a sweater or two.

talk about being a 'closet' HP fan.

ok, that was lame.

sorry.

QUOTE

but i think we can all safely blame my parents for that. im a Christian, and as most of you may know, HP isnt exactly popular among we churchgoers. well, my parents are some of those types that feel HP is evil and whatnot... but here i am, living proof that teenagers are incurably rebellious.

I feel sorry for you, vanillapuf! I am very fortunate that my church and family do not care about that type of thing. My brother and my friends made my pastor into such a HP fan that he goes woth our families to see the movies, and we sometimes discuss what will happen in OotP.

My pastor thinks that the books have a lot of Christian values and symbolism. He said that they remind him a lot of The Chronicles of Narnia. He doesn't see what the trouble is.

Oh well. At least they've accepted that you are a fan.

~Sugarjet Erin

vanillapuf - Oh hang in there! Don't let your 'rents suppress your HP fanness. There's lots of good values in there...and it's not like us fans go around with sticks in our hands shouting "Wingardium Leviosa".

So hooray for you! Be a rebel!

I'm finding all these stories awesome! It's good to see how others came to be.

Wow, Vanillapuff, you are an example for the power of these stories and this writing in the face of all oppression and, forgive me, ignorance. I commend you;)

And Happy Daze...I've learned that Wingardium Leviosa actually does work. It's all in the mind. The mind of someone who's been partaking in a lot of magical grass. For example, the entire English department of FSU, bless us all. Pot-heads in every sense of the word.

Hey, does anyone know if the black and white pic of Harry and Hermione hugging is real? I've seen it lot's of times, and people have it as avitars.. is it a manipulation (if it is, it's bloody brilliant).

~Woodsorrel the Crackpot (hehe)
aka Hon Rosie Woodsorrel

Oh yeah, this thread is about how we became H/Hr shippers.. ok, this'll be short.

Ok, for a while i didn't like the harry potter stuff, and i hadn't read the book, then i watched the first movie and i loved it, and i was an instant H/Hr-er. They seemed, right.. and the whole movie i was like thinking (hermione better kiss him). i'm a hopeless romantic, and i liked the couple.

considering i came into the movie a harry potter hater, and came out an h/h shipper.. h/hr just seems perfect..anhoo i'm rambling again

~Rosie Woodsorrel (who's still a crackpot hehe)

Oh my I feel like such a newbie! I'm very lost on this site, but since I found my way here!

YOu really want to know my backround?? Here goes!

Ok well I read GOF and was neutural...Ships didn't really occur to my young mind. Then a few months later my friend got me into a fanfiction called...well it didn't really have a name but it was one of the first ever, by a girl called Mena Baines.

Well, I was totally obssesed with that, and it was an H/Hr....I was hooked. Then Mena misteriously stopped writing for...get this....a year and a half. So for months I wasn't reading fanfic. Next came PoU by wonderful Lori. My same friend got me into that one. But then off course she left ff.net with some girl Cassie...I couldn't find the rest of her story. My friend told me a while later about this other site Fictionalley but I ignored that.

So there I sit one fine spring days, months after this inceident and out of sheer boredom I find myself wondering over to Fictionalley.org. Yet I don't go to read Lori's story, I find myself sunk deep into Cassies Draco Trilogy! After I finished that I started reading H/Hr like crazy, by all the good authors. Finally I remembered Lori and at last completed STNE and moved on to HWTF.

And here I sit today, a completely happy content H/Hr. No changing for me. I'd just like to see those R/Hrs try and convert me! Oh yea, and I have a personal vendetta against FF.net

Glomps&Schnoogles,
Emilia P.

Kristen - Oh really...must try it sometime

Rosie Woodsorrel - Actually, I think that that hugging picture was originally Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint laughing and hugging each other, with Emma Watson laughing beside them (probably goofing off on set). So someone must have modified it and cut out Emma's head and put it over Rupert's. It really looks real though...maybe it is...?

I dunno, i hope it's real.. it didn't look like it was modified.. but then again, some people are so good they can make 'em look real...

oh well.

~Rosie Woodsorrel (still an insane crackpot )

My story hmmmm

wibble wobble wibble wobble (did neone see robbie the reindeer??)

My sister actually introduced me to HP and then to yahoo groups about 2 1/2 years ago! I loved the yahoo groups and wanted to take part in the HArry Potter mania. So I joined the largest group there which happened to be POU.
When I started reading it I don't know why but H/Hr seemed to fit really well, and I was rooting for them to get together.

I think sub consciously the books told me that H/Hr was right!
From then on, I visited Schnoogle,the Astronomy tower and FFN and read many other great fanfics- all H/Hr. Now Harry just doesn't seem right with anyone else and neither does Hermione. I became a diehard H/Hr fanatic!

Finally, about a year ago, I started writing fanfics myself,all still H/Hr, which really made my views on H/Hr concrete. I also started making arguments for why H/Hr is THE ship and why anything else is just WRONG!

wibble wobble wibble wobble

Anyway, thats my story. I now refuse to read anything but H/Hr, L/J and very recently D/G

How I became a H/H-shipper?

I don't actually remember when it happened but I first started to 'warm up' for H/Hr when I was reading GoF and when I read 'The Psychic Serpent' I just suddenly knew that it was the right pairing for me. For a time I sailed on H/C also but soon I lost interest on the ship and became a pure H/Hr-shipper. CurrentlyI only read stories with H/Hr and L/J.

Actually, I think that that hugging picture was originally Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint laughing and hugging each other, with Emma Watson laughing beside them (probably goofing off on set)

Yep. It's a manip - the complete art is here. It looks good at first... unless you happen to notice that Hermione's hand seems a little big. But as far as making Emma's head look like it should be there... I agree, the artist did a good job.

My story? Hm… my story isn’t interesting at all! But here you go anyway…

The first time I heard of HP when the third book was coming out, our library teacher was reading us PS/SS and our class was being terrible. I honestly didn’t even care then, plus we were only read three chapters! My fourth grade class terrible or what? I always to forget to mention that part but HP was all but forgotten until on faithful day when I was visiting my aunt and uncle and my uncle (bless him! If it weren’t for him, I wouldn’t be here… and I’d be a bitter Digimon fan still…) asked if I ever read this book he was showing me. I said, no… I had forgotten about fourth grade, then I corrected myself, “A little bit…” He told me it was good and I should have it… because I was really bored that day… they didn’t have much to do there. And I read… took me five days. I fell for it at once. I begged my parents for the other books. I wasn’t really shipping anything, no, I was too busy with Takari in Digimon but there was always a tinge of happiness and just a smile whenever there was a bit of H/Hr moment, I hadn’t even notice. I sped through CoS and PoA… finishing them in five days (three for CoS, two for PoA…)… CoS… well, it’s my least favorite book. It was night when I was reading the ‘Let me rip you, tear you, kill you’ and I could almost hear it… I was just so, yeah. Well, then it just kind of irked me why Ron cares that Hermione like Lockhart… “What? Does he like her or something? ::gasp:: Oh no! I hope not! I really think that Harry…” and I was just kind of rooting for it… and it went on to PoA (which made so a L/J shipper, for some reason.. ::shrugs: and I just melted. I couldn’t wait till GoF… just imagine! Ah, but the thing was, I twitched a lot at that book, especially the Yule Ball… and I was surprised by the kiss at the end, I wasn’t expecting it at all. Of course, I was but a naïve pre-teen.Then, I was mad at Toei for the ending of Digimon zero two and I happened to wander into the HP fandom, I had roamed into it briefly before, I remember now… I wasn’t too interested. I realize that my first HP fic was a Digimon/HP crossover.. yeesh… Anyway… I didn’t want to read any of the romance, I was so dissappoint in Takari but I found L/J and I finished almost all the L/J romance fics (it was quite smaller back then, and I was a speed reader..heh) so I read everything then, within a limit. I gave up on shipping but then there was just something about those perticular H/Hr fics that made me feel all flutterly and my inner H/Hr-er was awoken… then I found FAP, which just helped me grow and understand things shippings more and share my love for them… so that’s it… pretty much. I don’t even remember which was my first H/Hr fic, or when I got PP/SS… I’ve got a horrible memory but that’s it… just ramblings.

-Kaori

What made me an H/Hr shipper.. hmm. I have been a fan of the books since 1998 when I first read PS. The idea of ships never really occured to me until I came into the fandom. I mean, I knew Ron liked Hermione and Harry liked Cho, but I just never thought of them getting together in the books. I was too into the plot line of the book and the Harry/Voldemort relations to thing about ships.

Until.. I read "Draco Dormiens". Reading DD was definitely a interesting experience for me as a fan of HP. My mind was turned upside down by breaking the molds of the characterizations that I had in my mind. I learned to pick up details in the books. After finishing DD, I went back and read all the books again and realized there was so much evidence to base ships on in the books. Of course, DD planted the idea of H/H in my head and I liked it. I liked the romance and the passion between them in the stories. I went on to read Lori's "Paradigm of Uncertainty" and that's when I became a full fledged H/H shipper. I just love reading it. It's a v. bad addiction. lol.

That doesn't mean though that I dont like other ships at all, I love reading Harry with pretty much anyone else except Ginny, and I like many of ships including Hermione. I just like H/H best of all.

-Jessie

QUOTE (Kristen Elizabeth @ Jan 3 2003, 02:41 AM)

And Happy Daze...I've learned that Wingardium Leviosa actually does work.  It's all in the mind.  The mind of someone who's been partaking in a lot of magical grass.  For example, the entire English department of FSU, bless us all.  Pot-heads in every sense of the word.

I laughed so hard that I almost fell off of my stool. Ahh, memories of college *sighs*.

How did I become an H/H shipper? Well, when I read stories or watch TV shows, I just tend to wish for romance, because I'm like that, I guess... Usually it's the main guy and the main girl or something really boring like that. I've been a fan of the idea of Harry and Hermione together since reading PS/SS a few years ago. I'm not really sure why...

Just because Ron always argued with Hermione and they didn't seem very well-suited for each other... But Harry, it was his idea to rescue Hermione from the troll. And then the hug at the end! That's when I knew I would be an H/H shipper forever. I nearly had a heart attack when I finished reading GoF and got that surprise.

At first, I was the type who couldn't tolerate anything else... R/H was only acceptable, D/H was ridiculous, I hated H/G and H/C... It's probably because of Digimon that I became so open to the idea of other pairings -- there were just so many characters that it was impossible to just stick to one... And eventually I began liking tons that contradicted other's I liked (hm, not contradicted...what's the word?)... Anyway, this acceptance of other ships stuck with me when I switched back to Harry Potter fanfics, so now I'm pretty much open to anything, although people come up with some strange couples. The easiest way for me to get over a pairing I don't like is to write about it, then I can sort of see it from other shippers' perspectives. For some reason, it's more fun than reading their versions. So I pretty much only read H/H fics.

That reminds me... Another huge reason I got so into H/H was when I discovered Mena Baines' fics! Wow, that's a total classic. Hmm, I need to find that story again, I *love* it...

How did I get here? Good question.

I've always been into coupling in whatever I see: books, movies, TV shows, music videos, whatever. Plus I'm obsessive.
After finding GoF in a bookstore and reading the last page, the one with the kiss on the cheek, it made me say: "Oh yeah, I guess that could happen- actually, it'd be pretty damn cute.." So i bought the book, cursed out Krum and Parvati for being their dates, and forgot about it for about 3 months while I obsessed over the other 3 books.
When I heard about the fifth book coming out in June (2 days woot woot!) I read the 4th book again and became head-over-heels obsessed w/ H/Hr so I found some fanfic sites and kind of drifted into my own HP world where Ron was unnessecary.
Then I found this site and as cheesy macoroni as this may sound, I feel like I'm not alone in the universe.j/p but yeah U guys are kool
Harry/Hermy 4 LIFE

I did not ship any ship till the 3rd book becuase nothing really made me want to ,then I read POA and got hooked on the fishing rod thats was H/HR. it's becuase they seem to fit, I know the hole fighting love thing with Ron and Hermione but it's not good to bicker that much when in a relaytionship it's not healthy,now tell me something but I think in a romantic partnership there has to be understanding and Hermione and Ron understand each other but not as much as a wife should do a husband .If Ron understood Hermione then they whould not bicker as much and the reason they bicker is becuase they don't get each other that much.If Ron understood her then he whould know what tweeks her and he whould not fight with her that much.Harry and Hermione have one or two spats and thats it, becuase he /she knows what tweeks that person.so to aswer your question the reason I ship Harry and Hermione is becuase they understand each other something veary important,in a relationship along with trust and love.

how i became a pumpkin-eer? thats a toughie. it was such a long time ago! *think!* eureka!

ok, well back in the late 2000/early 2001 days, i discovered fandom. i did a yahoo search for harry potter, and it came up with Mena Baines H/Hr saga. i was immediatley hooked. every night after dinner, i would read a chapter, until finally i caught up with her. i waited forever for the last installment, and finally it came. i was so sad the day it ended. anyway, there's a link to ff.net there, and read stuff there, and i somehow mangled myself onto FA, TLC, and, of course, beloved portkey. and the rest is history!

I started reading SS as a distraction from doing my homework in 2000 - late, I know. My mom got them for my sister as a means to lure her into reading, but I read them instead and was instantly hooked. I was talking to my friend at school who also happens to be into HP and Star Wars - like me. She told me about ff.net and I started reading Msscribe's "Requital" - I was completely in love with fanfiction.

Harry and Hermione as a ship have always seemed so natural to me... friendship growing into love. The whole R/Hr love/hate is WAY too unbelievable and too much of a high-maintenance relationship to me. H/Hr is natural - it flows and progresses. Who says you can't fall in love with your best friend, and who says the hero can't get the heroine?

Needless to say, HP is most definitely my favorite means of procrastination! LoL!

*Padawan Leia*

I basically came to like H/Hr through the fan fics by Mena Baines. I always hated R/Hr and H/Hr was the first alternate ship I saw. I, from that point on, loved H/Hr.

I became an H/Hr shipper when I read Lori's Paradigm of Uncertainty. That's what got me. Before that, it didn't really make a difference about the ships. Now I prefer H/Hr a LOT more than R/Hr, etc.

I started shipping H/Hr right from the beginning. Really. It may not sound so believable but after reading the first book, I don't know why, but I was already leaning towards to wanting Hermione and Harry end up together and then the movie came and just the sight of Hermione giving Harry the whole, "you're a great wizzard" speech, I was definitely hooked! She might not have necessarily gave Harry the courage, but she gave him that push - that inspiration! Ok, well, maybe I'm romanticizing it too much.

I am a hopeless romantic anyway.

H/Hr just gets to me like no other "possible" couple in HP. Every book, there's this little subtle hints that I just love reading and going, "hmmm... well would you look at that..."

Of course a good dose of H/Hr fics only strenghtened my belief in H/Hr. And I think I have mentioned this before, but I love the amount of angst involved with Harry and Hermione's relationship!

Oh, weird me.

Harry and Hermione forever!

Originally i was a completely and entirelly obsessed with Salior Moon ... Yeah, remember that cartoon with the blonde girl who had the funky meatball hairstyle... well i usually just surfed around SM fanfiction sites, but then i found FF.Net and started reading them there because there were so many. (ok this is the beginning)

My friend, who's a really big reader, had read the first three HP books and was constantly telling me to read them. I thought that it was stupid and just a fad that would pass(silly me). Then i finally gave in because i had nothign better to do and asked her to borrow the first one. I remember asking my friend if the book was just about quidditch because of the picture on the cover, and she said no and that there was alot more too it and that was just a game that the wizards played.

This all happened right around Sept. 11. To say the least i was completely shocked and stuned at what happened (i live only a few miles outside of the city). I had no idea how to react and i was practically torn apart over what happened. The HP books became a refuge for me, a place to ecape to from all the horrors that were going on around me. The books got me through this time with my brain in tact (i'm a worry wart and was scaring myself over what else might happen with the war and everything else). But the books got me through and i went to see the PS movie. I thought it was absoutely great.

By this time i was looking around FF.Net for fanfics to make up for not having another book to read. I was pretty neutral when it came to ships and read just about everything. There was somthing I found a bit strange with R/Hr, it just didn't really work in my head but i dismissed the thoughts most of the time, and the Ginny in the books seemed to obsessed for Harry to like her. I had read all different stories about with all the different ships, but then i stumbled over one or two H/Hr fics that i loved and it all just clicked. One of the fics was Nappa's "Harry Potter and the Stepanic Dueling." I thought that it was great even though for the time being its leaning towards H/Ang. (Please Finish it Nappa, Please! I've been waiting to find out what happens for over a year!) I think the other one was "Remember Me" by Quidditch Mom (amazing story, still one of the best i've read). Eventually i found FA.org, better then FF.Net.. hehe, all HP and better writing most of the time!

And the rest is history.... H/Hr forever!

QUOTE (Kristen Elizabeth @ Jan 2 2003, 10:41 PM)

And Happy Daze...I've learned that Wingardium Leviosa actually does work. It's all in the mind. The mind of someone who's been partaking in a lot of magical grass. For example, the entire English department of FSU, bless us all. Pot-heads in every sense of the word.

woah! hold on a minute! did you mean FSU, like Florida State University? i was born in Tallahassee, and i went to FSU's lil' day-care program thing when i was like 3 (my dad was getting his PhD). my entire family went there! *it's a small world, after all!...*

ok, so that was sorry! i already posted my response...

My journey to find the truth was both short and memorable.

Harry Potter was becoming really popular in my school. One of my friends read it and was talking about it quite a lot. She had other friends who were into the Harry Potter craze and I was thinking "Eh, kids' stuff" [If I heard myself say that today, I would pull my limbs out:P]
I regret to say that I hadn't even read the books when the movie came out. Yes, I'm a late bloomer.
But even after I saw the movie, I wasn't hooked. To be honest, I was forced to see it cause my younger brother wanted to see it.
Anyway, the reason I wasn't hooked yet was because I wasn't really paying attention
Then, after a week or so, I decided to see what all the hub-bub was about and read the first installment. I was hooked from page one.
There was something about the way JRK writes. It's truly magical [no pun intended]
I continued to read it, completely engrossed, and I reached the train compartment scene. At once, I was utterly surprised at how much I didn't like the "chemistry" between Ron and Hermione. Hermione was obviously too bossy for Ronald. Harry, on the otherhand, obviously didn't mind her bossiness ^.^
Throughout the whole book, I didn't like how Ron would treat Hermione. I mean, I didn't mind her bossiness at all, and the fact that she was a know-it-all made it much more fun
Even in PS/SS, we could see that Harry sees Hermione as his sort of shelter. It was especially obvious when she hugged him.
I was already H/Hr when I read CoS for the first time, but I didn't know it then. When Valentine's day came, I dearly hoped Hermione would give Harry something... but she didn't. I was still a sealed H/Hr.
PoA was unbelievably unbelievable. So much H/Hr! In this one, we see Harry getting angry at Hermione, but not staying angry. He had great reasons to be angry.[Unlike a tall, freckled red-head we know] And H/Hr had some alonetime ^.^
GoF was amazing. It relieved my craving for more Harry Potter. I didn't try to look for subtle H/Hr signs, so I didn't find one the first time I read it. In fact, I didn't even noticed R/Hr ones. All I knew then was that I didn't like Ron very much for how he acted with Harry, or Hermione.

Harry and Hermione make sense to me because the others don't. I've never really been attracted to guys who I fight with, or movies that have the guy and girl fighting before they realize they are madly in love with each other. No, I like movies where they don't fight, but are playful, and occasionally taunting, or when the guy realises something the girl already has, or vise-versa. Movies/books like that are more believable to me, and I can connect.
At the end of the day, great understanding and foundation is what you really look for in a relationship, not just chemistry.

I really hope JK Rowling sees the truth that is Harry and Hermione's love. I have...

Okay, maybe not so short