after book 4 came out, i was addicted. hermione was my favorite character, so I searched for fics revovling around her. i found mena baines' site and read her fanfiction and adored it! The h/hr just seemed so real and true. I was hooked.

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I admit I didn't start reading the HP books until well after the forth one came out. (I remeber buying one once a weekend for a month!) I managed to get my dad hooked on them too. anyway the reason I got hooked on H/Hr was because I just couldn't see Harry with anyone else. I first read a couple of R/Hr fics and thought Nah that doesn't work and then just went on from there. (And I also Love to support the best couples!)

My favourite character is Hermione, too. So I just want the best for her. *giggles*
I think she and Harry would be a nice couple through they think alike. Ron is so different from Hermione, dunno. Although I like him. He's funny. But there's some depth missing in his character, a depth that Harry has.
Something else Harry and Hermione are sharing is loyality / caring for friends in danger and being able to forsee the danger ahead. Ron mostly recognize it too late - or just if it's danger just for him.

*likes Hermione and Harry most, so she's just going on supporting them, no matter what happens*

from the first movie..when first time...Hermione fixed Harry's glasses on train.

wow. I havn't posted here for nearly a month.

I actually never thought about any kind of romantic pairings when I first read the book (I think.. It was a lloonngg time ago) But then after I read His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman, I was so sad at the end, that in a seach for a more happy ending on the internet, I somehow stumbled onto Fanfiction.net. And that first introduced me into the huge world that is fanfiction. Especially Harry Potter. Anways, I was searching on yahoo for Harry Potter fansites when I came across Mena Baine's fanfiction site... I know a lot of people since then that had come across her work also. And while not the best work of fiction I have ever read (especially with such a terrible ending... Nail... *shudder*) thats what really presented H/Hr to me and it just seem perfect to me. As I got deeper into the fandom world it just seemed more right. Especially once I compared it to any other pairing.

This was an extremely long time ago though. So all the details are kinda fuzzy. But thats about it. I started reading the books when the first two were out. I'm not sure when that was, but it was a whle ago. Anways, there you go.

*blink*
Blinkus

I became a H/Hr shipper when I first started reading fan fiction. It just made sense to me. That and I thought that they looked cute togther. (And they do!)

I actually proclaimed myself allergic to the Harry Potter phenomena before I read any of the books. My thinking was this: if my sister thinks it's good, then it's gotta be crap. Oh, come on! She was obsessed with HP and Pokemon at the same time - what was I supposed to think?! Anyway, the only reason I ventured into the realm was cause my sis made me promise I'd take her to see the movie as a birthday present.

So I did - I think I was the only one in that cinema that was actually surprised that Quirrel was the bad guy

And from the moment the opening sequence began, I was hooked.

I saw the cute little scenes between Harry and Hermione - honestly, Hermione became my favourite character almost straight away - and, being the hopeless romantic that I was (and still am, damnit!) I said to myself 'aww, how cute!'. And so a Pumpkin Pie shipper was ALMOST born. As the movie was coming to a close I thought that perhaps I should start reading the books - if the movie is this good, then as a general rule, the book should be bloody brilliant.

So, I read the books. I was a little too busy reading to actually be searching for H/Hr worthy moments, but they just seemed to creep out of every crevice and, before I knew it, I was hooked to the ship. Then naturally, followed with the fanfic reading - and what fanfic it was btw - and everything I read just made it more fabulous.

I shudder to think what would have happened if I hadn't taken my sister to the movies that Thursday night. Hmm, I probably would have gotten higher marks in my HSC for a start ... oh well, what's done is done - and boy, am I ever glad it's done!

I am become a H/Hr shipper after the very cute scene in the first movie when she tells him what a great wizard he is. I mean, I'd already read all four books, but I didn't really think that much about the romance things (hey, I was only 11...12 when the movie came out)...and fanfics got me hooked on H/Hr and that's that...

I started loving the ship when I saw the first movie. I hadn't even captured a glimpse of the books. I thought it was so dumb when it first appeared. I was just curious and decided to pay the 8 bucks and stand on a long ass line. I dragged my dad to it for some bonding time, my parents divorced when I was 5 and I had seen my dad only a few times before the movie. It worked cause we talked about it for days later and even my dad, whose heavily into Barry White and Marvin Gaye thought Harry and Hermione were 'gonna get it on' (when they were much older of course). I was also getting over my affair with the X-Files and Harry and Hermione picked up where Mulder and Scully left off. They just made sense together, he was nice to her even if she was bossy and irritating at times.

I finally cracked open the books and in just a short week after reading all 4 of them, I was hooked. I didn't exactly go parading it around and buying action figures and legos and sh*t but I found myself daydreaming about H/H doin' their thang. I actually started writing shorts about them in a journal, which I may one day turn in some fics. I hadn't even thought R/H was a good possibility until someone said it was an actual ship. I immediately scoffed at the idea, I thought how's that gonna last? Then I found out that that little **** Ginny (just kidding) was actually being paired off with Harry. It's just an infatuation we all get when we see a celebrity who attracts us with their good looks and fame. I actually thought that Ginny and Colin were the perfect pair, cause of that whole 'I love Harry' deal and she's kinda cutesy and so is he.

I have to admit - and this is a hard confession - I didn't start reading the books till right after the second movie. I used to think my friends who read HP were a little wierd, but during last Xmas break I read all 4 in about a week in a half.

So anyways.. during the second movie I didn't really expect any romance at all.. but the little "hand stroke" thing, and "the hug" implanted in my head somehow.

So I read the books directly after that, and although there weren't any romantic actions between them, I've always paid extra attention to their friendship and how it could possibly evolve. The very idea of r/hr sickened me I'm sad to say. Hermione is such an awsome character and if she settles for Ron in the end I *will* cry. I'll be h/hr to the end!

I started reading the books when they came out. and saw possible clues for h/hr. i was a h/hr shipper right then. but then i saw the movies and i was touched. i will always be a h/hr shipper till the end.

My story is a lot like Nappa's and Theiving Magpies. I started out as a sugarquiller but I never read any of their fanfactions. I was going to, but then I found Barb's story and I started reading that. When I came to the Harry/Hermione parts I just felt the bond between them. From then on I went looking for as many H/Hr fics I could find. I have to say that I never finished Barb's trilogy because it started turning H/G *blech* Somehow I found this site and I immediatley fell in love with Msscribes, PureBloodGryffindor, and Ryoko Blue's fics. And now here I am!

~*~LadyGranger~*~

Proud to sail on the HMS Pumpkin Pie!

Well, I didn’t start reading the books until after the first movie. I was actually reading the last chapter to Sorcerer’s Stone right before we left for the Chamber of Secrets movie. After I saw the hug in CoS, I was hooked! I was fearful of OBHWF b/c I figured that JKR wouldn’t want to break up the trio or something, but I kept hope alive! Then after seeing Cos the movie, I was compelled to read the other two. After PoA, I was convinced. The Time Turner/Hippogriff rescue part sealed the deal for me. Then GoF only fueled my Pumpkin Pie fire!

Now, I enjoy reading just looking for those little Harry/Hermione clues that are so well-hidden and yet so blatenly obvious. I’m gonna re-read OotP as soon as my fiance gives it back and keep a record of the moments! (There’s plenty!!)

Well, I was a supporter of H/Hr before I was even a HP fan. I saw the movie SS and thought they just looked so cute together . Then I saw CoS and was hooked.

I have to say when I finally got around to reading the books 1-4, I was a little disappointed at the (at first glance) lack of H/Hr interaction. But the second time around, I noticed that there really are tons of moments between the two, you just have to look. And quite frankly, the 5th book is by far my fave, mainly because of the many many H/Hr moments.

Now, I must get back to my second helping of OoTP.

Hello,

I became an H/Hr shipper only this year. I read the first 4 books, and saw the 2 movies, without any regard to shipping. Then I stumbled across the first fanfic I've ever read, which had R/Hr and H/G. I read its 30+ chapters for its good plotlines. But I realized that I kept wondering how much better it would be if Hermione was paired up with Harry.

Then I stumbled upon portkey's forums. One thread asked about the "favorite scene of Harry and Hermione's first kiss". Most readers voted for Lori's PoU. I then looked up PoU, and got hooked! It's such a good story, its H/H elements became a bonus.

After that, I don't bother reading any fanfic that isn't H/H.

Hear, hear, galtxtr! I won't read anything but H/Hr as well. (With perhaps the exception of Lily/James).

Hmm... How i got to love H/Hr... That's a long story.

Ok, so here is how it started. I read PS/SS in 1999 but i wasn't really interested in any ships. in fact i didn't even know what ships were. anyways i only read SS/PS. I didn't read the others beacuse... well i really don't know. I think it was the fact that we were movin and i had to make new friends at my new school. i didn't really think about HP, until i saw the trailor of SS/PS. anyways i started liking H/Hr before i read the rest of the book. you see i just saw the movie A Walk To Remember and i went to a site. that's where i found out of fanfics. I looked it up in google and i found FF.net. There i read all of the AWTR fanfics. that lasted for like 2 weeks, then i started to get bored with it. if you knew me, you would know i love romance. eveything i look at has to have romance, books, movies, shows, video game, etc..

So, i looked around and found harry potter. i didn't know what to read when i got there. I didn't know who i wanted to read stories about. So i picked Harry (of course) and i didn't know who the girl should be. So i looked at all the names and the only name i could remember out of everybody was Hermione, so i put Harry and Hermione together. then, i started reading fanfics about them, and they were very cute together, but i wasn't a shipper yet. Then, i watched the 1st movie and Harry and Hermione look good together in the movie, and i was sort of liking them together, but i was not sure because there was Ron. The movies or shows i usually watch have two people that fight at the beginning and then start falling for each other. So, i noticed something between Ron and Hermione. (Curse all those Filipino movie and shows i watched.) They fought most of the time so i was like Ron and Hermione will get together. (I can't believe i thought that)

After i watched the 1st movie, i got my mom to buy the other 3 books. That was around 2001. I read the books and that gave me more Ron and Hermione reasons. I was thinking, 'they fight, so that means they'll end up together. That always happens' I was still reading H/Hr fanfics at this time and i became a huge HP fanatic. Then i read the 3rd books right after the second one and that book gave me reasons to like H/Hr. So, before i read GoF, i was half-in-half. I was very confused. My cousin was reading GoF while i was reading PoA, so when i got done with PoA, he was almost done with GoF. While i waiting for him to get done, I went on Fanfic and found the story, "All That She Wants." I was half way done with that fanfic and that's whem my cousin got finished with GoF. Aftering reading half of that story, i was totally into H/Hr than H/R. I loved the idea of Harry being with Hermione.

Then onto GoF. I was harry and hermione shipper now. Then, i started reading and I saw that Ron was jealous of Krum and that got me doubting H/Hr. Then, the walks around the lake made me totally confused. Then, when i was half way doen with the book, my cousin told me about the Hermione kissing Harry on the cheek. I was so shocked and mad at the same time. I didn't want to know that. i wanted to read it and find out by myself, but i think the only reason he told me is because i was annoying him with my confusion of H/Hr and H/R. I kept talking about that. hahaha... anyways after he told me, i couldn't wait until it happened. I was SO happy. After i finished the book, H/Hr, was the only ship in my mind. And i finished "All That She Wants" and i was totaly H/Hr shipper. Didn't like any other shipper in HP but them. That's how to got to like then.

And one more thing, i remember while writing this. I remember I read somewhere that Harry and Hermione were going to hug in CoS and i was so happy when i read that . I couldn't wait until the movie got out. I was being really impatient and i ended up watching the movie the 1st day it came out. I LOVED THE HUG! i watched that movie 4 times while it was in theaters . and i have the DVD.

~Elle~
AlwaysDreamer

The Thing most people have troble with is you might be a Harry and Hermione fan now but what happens if Hermione and like Ron goes out will you change??

Well I certainly won't !! and I think most of you wouldn't nether !!!

OH I became a Harry and Hermione from the first book for some reason all that they said and did to each other made them be together in my eyes so i was a True H / Hr supporter from the start !!

~Jasmine~

Proud owner of her Harry and Hermione web site

R/Hr just never ever seemed natural to me. I'm not all like, "People who think that way are damn wrong!" It just didn't fit. Besides, I'm from the school of "The Hero Gets the Girl"; the girl ending up with the sidekick just wasn't an option for me. I got the hint that they had something going when Hermione gave Harry a hug before facing Voldemort in PS/SS. I mean, how many 11 year olds do you know that just run around hugging their classmates? Not many is the answer. Another big clue for me was when Hermione had her arms wrapped around Harry when they had to ride Buckbeak to save Sirius in PoA. After that, I just started reading fan fiction, and got hooked. I even read some R/Hr fics, but they just didn't sit right in my mind. The rest is history. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it! LOL

AML
~*kt*~

I get what ur getting at Mate , thats a heaps good way of Becoming a Harry and Hermione Fan

~Jasmine~

I think I've been a subconcious H/Hr shipper all my potter days. I thought it was interesting in the COS when harry couldn't get the picture of Hermione out of his head and then I really liked the POA because of the Harry and Hermione stuff at the end. I don't think I really realised that I was an H/Hr shipper until the end of book 4 when my mum said something about thinking Ron and Hermione would get together and I was so dissapointed by that that I realised I thought it should be H/Hr all the way.
The question is though, if Hermione and Ron get together in the end and stay that way through book 7 do you think you will stay an H/Hr shipper, just in denile or what?

Aahh, even IF R/Hr happens in canon, we H/Hr shippers have so many marvelous post-Hogwarts fanfics to turn to. There's Paradigm of Uncertainty, Love is a battlefield, Paradise Lost, and many others cited in our "Fanfic Recs" thread. I love these fics, as I firmly believe that H/H's relationship will last.

Remember what Hermione said in Show That Never Ends:
(click to read spoilers!)
"The first man you love isn't the important one. It's the last man you love that matters. ... Harry was the last man I'll ever love. The first time we kissed I think we both knew that we were done. That was it for us. It doesn't matter how it ends with him, no one will ever come after him."

I've been a H/Hr shipper before the movies came out, before I had ever read a fanfic, and before I knew what H/Hr was. I read SS about 5 years ago. Harry and Hermione are in the Potions chamber before Harry goes to get the Sorcerer's Stone, and Hermione throws herself on Harry and gives him a huge hug and tells him that he's a great wizard. After that happened, I was like "that's it."

CoS had just came out, so I got to read SS and CoS basically in a row. After that, I went online and found websites and RPG and that's when I found out that other people shipped H/Hr and people thought about R/Hr.

That's why it annoys me when people think that I must be dumb or something because I ship H/Hr. "Are you reading the book? HELLO, GOF, YULE BALL!!!" It's how I perceive the books, and I don't think that anyone should how to scream "OMG ARE WE READING THE SAME BOOKS?!?!?!"

I actually wasn't aware of HP until I was preggers in the summer of 2001. That was when the articles were everywhere, how it affected the children of this generation in picking up a book, rather than clicking a mouse.
Wondering what my child *might* be influenced by, I picked up the first book and read it home on the metro. Their friendship alone made me think of my childhood friends, and what it was like to just be. I always thought H/HR. It just clicked. Ron has his family, always will, but along the reading of their adventures, I always got the impression that HR was Harry's *family*, and not in the brother, sister way. It has thudded even more loudly since OotP came out...there are just too many moments to discard it.

Hey,

My story about how I came to like Harry and Hermione started in the seventh grade (only three years ago). I wasn't much of a Harry Potter fan and tended to stay away from the people who did like it-I wasn't one to to follow the crowd.

But my one close friend kept telling me to read it. I always declined and would turn to another subject. Finally one day in January of my seventh grade year I started to read the first book. It was just how my friend predicted to be. The first few chapters were a little boring but then when Harry got to Hogwarts the excitement that came out of the book changed in away. I read the all four books within a month.

Truth be told I am a BIG romantic person. So I always look to see if their is any possible connections in the books I read. I saw the whole H/G going on and the R/Hr and the H/C. But for some strange reason I didn't like those couples. I didn't find the romance in them...like some do. Then I thought about how good Harry and Hermione would hook up.

They seemed like the perfect couple once you compare them to to the others. I tried to find clues that they would get together. But the kiss that Hermione gave Harry at the end of the fourth book sealed the deal for me. I gave my opinion to a few friends. They all disagreed because they were either D/Hr or R/Hr or H/G. This didn't stop me.

I went online to fanfiction.net to see how much fanfiction they had on Harry Potter. I was on that site many times before for Anime but never for Harry Potter. At the time they didn't have it where you could sort out the characters...so I had to find the stories on my own. There weren't many. But the ones I did find didn't really like.

I then found Lori's fanfiction and started to read that. I didn't even get past the first chapter. The beginning bored me. So I stoped reading it. I then tried Cassandra Claire's stories...they bored me as well. Finally I just started to write me own.

Now a few years later I am proud to say that I did give Lori's stories a chance and now I'm hooked on them. I read AngieJ's stories as well. While AngieJ may have a diffrent view on the H/H i know that its still in their.

That's my story. Sorry if I bore you all bt it.

Ok...I think I read the first book in 1999, and, don`t tell me how weird I am, but a little before I read it I thought Harry Potter was a story about a hedgehog. I don`t know WHERE I got that...but oh well...I`m

Anyways, as soon as I got to the part where Harry and Hermione became friends, I was an INSTANT H/Hr shipper. I don`t know why, but I just was. And I honestly still do not know why. A few months after the first, I read the second, and I was dissapointed but the lack of H/Hr. Then I read the third. And I was freaking out about how much of an H/Hr shipper I had become.

So I went on the internet for Harry Potter information and came across sights about the rumors about the fourth book. I searched desperatley for rumors. And then I started reading fanfiction.

Then I got the fourth book, finally, and I was obsessed with H/Hr. I read more and more fanfiction and got more into the fandom world.

I lost interest after awhile, because there was no new news or anything, until the first movie came out, and I thought the H/Hr was cute. So I shipped it a little bit for a few weeks or months or something, but I quickly lost interest again.

Then the second movie came out, and I all of a sudden became a MAJOR shipper again. Then I found this website

I've been A H/Hr shipper since the begginning!
Ok...I use to think Harry Potter was stupid and it made no sence at all, then my mom and my sis made me see the first film with them, and when I came out I was talking constantly about it, none stop, I bought all four books and read them in less then a month, and as soon as I finished the 3rd book, I knew Harry and Hermione would make a cute couple, and then I read the fourth and fifth one, and they seem closer then ever now. And Hermione is with Harry more often then Ron is...so...I'm hooked on this couple. I always read H/Hr fanfics and stories, and I always look at the H/Hr, D/G, L/J, fan art, I havn't seen any Ron/Luna fan art yet, but I've seen some with Ron and Fleur, and even a Ron and Cho one.
I've never thought once that Harry/Cho was a good couple.
I was appalled to see that Harry actually LIKED her...it made me sick!
I don't have a problem with R/Hr, but I don't think they'd make a good couple, they're too...different...
And Draco/Herm fics?! AGH! NO WAY!
But when I saw the second film, and read the second book, I was like "Hey...I think Tom Riddle did something to her down there...what if she starts to like BAD BOYS?"
And that's when I started agreeing with all of the D/G shippers, and I was like "Yeah, Draco and Ginny are a good couple too"
So Yeah, I didn't really like HP until I saw the first film, and now I'm an obbsessed freak who loves reading Harry Potter, and is on Harry Potter sites every day, and writes HP stories.

Oh dear... when we first became H/Hr shippers... hmm...

Well I suppose it starts back in 98, closer to 99 when POA was set to come out. I was sitting in my room reading a book about Merlin's adventures, and my good old Vati (german term for father) with the Harry Potter book (first one). He told me that there had been good reviews on it and thought that because I read so much I should read it. I'd already read my Merlin book so I picked up the new soft cover Harry Potter and read through it. I fell in love with the characters, and Hogwarts. At the time, I wasn't shipping over anyone, but nonetheless I went on the web and found out that there was a second book out, so I yelled at my Vati to go and buy that one, while my sister read the first one. Vati bought it, and I read that one as well, and began to notice just how much Harry and Hermione were alike. My sister and I (both avid H/Hr's [we've coverted 2 people to our good ship from R/Hr]) both sat on pins and needles waiting for the third book to come out. My sister, being the one who bought it read it first and then I read it and really began to see some H/Hr action. Then the fourth book came out and there was a brawl between my sister and myself because we both wanted to read it first. We ended up buying two copies. We ended up finishing at about the same time and we were yelling that Hermione had kissed Harry (on the cheek hadn't registered, it was a kiss so who cared?) so loudly or Mutti came and grounded us. It was worth it.

Ahh then came the movies. The first one had me vibrating through the entire thing with the ever present sister telling me what happened during it (she had seen it before hand.) I went and saw PS/SS at least 5 times in theatres, and got the DVD for my birthday. Then COS came out, and I was dragged out of the theatre when it came to the hug between Harry and Hermione. I went back again afterwards and watched the whole thing. I still have yet to buy the DVD, perhaps today.

Somewhere along the line I had been looking through some Card Captor Sakura sites and found a link to fanfiction.net. I went and saw that there were Harry Potter fan fics, and I read through quite a few, but really fell in love with Heaven and Ryoko Blue, they in turn led me here .

I can't tell you when I officially became a H/Hr shipper, but all I know is that I haven't ever gone through indecision about it. Always 100% on this decision! Ahh memories

Hmm, how I became an H/Hr is when I recieved my very first book when I was ten: GoF (I know that's the fourth book, but we can't find the first one ). When I just read Rita Skeeter's article about Harry and Hermione I suddenly became Conscious of what I'm reading. And then I thought:

Hey! Harry is great with Hermione! And Badda Bing, Badda Boom, I got my powers!

I've been like that ever since even though I don't know what I was reading about. But believe me, I was named The Matchmaker since I was nine! I predicted things about Friends (Chandler and Monica ), etc. And I've been crazy about romance ever since! I just can't help myself. And that's how I came to be.

Sight Confusion and Love

[SIZE=1]Love is like falling down,
You die and go to heaven when you're good (Aka when your an angel with your love),
Or you die and go hell (Aka when your evil towards your love).

I officially fell in love with Harry & Hermione on the third book.

The first and second, I was a little bit neutral. Although, the first time Hermione and Harry met, I already thought about what a good couple they would make. They're both so brilliant, and Hermione is the one female in Harry's life that gives him such an influence. And she's the single most important female in his life too.

It was only on the third book though that I officially branded myself as a Harry and Hermione shipper. I guess because the writer emphasized that Harry cares about Hermione a lot, and that gave me warm fuzziness all over my stomach. So when that happens, that's when I know I had started shipping someone.

When the movie came out, I was pretty blown away by how much chemistry Harry and Hermione had. I honestly thought their would be more chemistry between Ron and Hermione, but I was wrong. Harry & Hermione was just all kinds of cute. I loved them instantly.

Somewhere over the course of the first four books for me. The more I read the great characterizations for Hermione and Harry, the more I realized that they are one of the most compatible couples I've read about in a long time. A LONG time. And I read a LOT.

The more I've delved into fanfiction for HP, and fan sites, etc, the more I see the support for it as well. Harry and Hermione mesh together so well it is almost scary, yet Rowling herself dances around it -- and she wrote it! If another ship does in fact happen, I will be shocked.

I think I am the same as many others here when I say it has grown into a bit of an....well, for lack of a better term, obsession. I want to see them together so badly in canon it hurts!

Let's hope it happens.

Like some of you here, I've been an Harry/Hermione shipper since the beginning. But, it's a bit more complicated.

I received the first two books from my aunt for Christmas in 1999. She loves to read, as well as myself. She had also read them and recommended them to me. She also mentioned that the third one was in store. However, I dubbed the books as "lame" and "childish" before even reading them. I didn't have the urge to read them at all. When all the hoopla surrounding the release of GoF in 2000 was going on, I suddenly remembered that I had the first two in my closet. I dug them out and began to read. And boy did I read...I finished both books in the span of 5 days( I'm a speed reader ). I begged for my mom to take me to the bookstore so I can buy the next 2. She declined, but my grandma took me instead. Again, I sped through those books with ease. It left me hungry for the 5th one.

Books one through three left ne leaning towards H/Hr. I don't know why. Hermion instantly became my favorite character. I found a bit of myself in her, although I doubt I am as bossy and domineering as her. In my opinion, she deserved the best guy in the series. And that, of course, was Harry. Now, when I read GoF, of course I had my doubts. Don't we all? I built off of only what was given to me and that's what JKR wants you to do. I didn't look at the subtext or any of the sort. Hell...I didn't even know what sub-text was!

After watching the first movie, I began to see H/Hr a little more clearly. People were constatly telling me that the series was going to be R/Hr and I started to believe them! But, I realized that I had my own mind and I didn't want to be a follower. So, I read the books again and I began to notice subtle H/Hr hints throughout the series. I pointed this out, but I was told things like, "Are you okay? You don't take drugs, do you?" It was frustrating. Everytime I tried to express my opinion, I was laughed at and received several eyeball rolls.

I never even knew there was a fandom for shipping until stumbling across a little gem last summer...Crossing the Line Undrawn. Perhaps, the best H/Hr site out there( along with PK.org, of course ). Sure enough, I knew Megan/Aeryn, because we are both affiliates with our Star Wars sites and that is how I came across this one. After that, I descended to FA.org and such where I discovered other ships as well. Although, I did visit a few R/Hr sites( many very well done, in fact ). However, I was appalled. Many reasons were not valid and I found myself strongly attached to H/Hr once more. I joined Portkey in December and from then on I became a 100% Pumpkinite( which is my nickname among my friends ).

So, that's my story. *looks above* Whew...getting winded, so I better stop!

erm... ok, my story. i didn't read the books until 2 years ago, before that, i thought they were just for younger children.

then last year, i read a very good fanfic, it was about 4 years long, statring from book 5, and i loved it... it really showed me how harry and hermione were meant to be together, but i had never supported any relationship before that.

First, I'd like to say hi to those who don't know me. I'm a newbie and I adore H/Hr . They're just so perfect for each other .

For me, it was in a dream . Really. I had a dream that Harry and Hermione got together and ever since I've thought that they are the cutest couple .

Yeah, I know I'm weird, don't worry.

Welcome to Portkey!

Yup, there was another thread about this.
(MOD's NOTE: I've merged it with this one ~galtxtr Sep6)

By the way, you can easily look for other interesting topics by using the "Search This Forum" box. It's usually near the bottom of the forums list, but sometimes I find it on the top.

Enjoy your stay!

since the first time i read the first book i just knew.... welcome to Portkey by the way!!!!

ummm, actually when i started reading the books it was after i seen the first movie (i seen it by accident) i had always thought it was for children of 8 until i actually sat and watched it and got hooked

I started t read the books after that, but while i was i had no idea about fanfiction, etc, so i was always ok with R/Hr (dont hit me ) i just kind of accepted that it was gonna happen. it didnt really bother me too much.

Even after i read GoF i still never really got annoyed about the whole R/Hr thing, i never really thought about anything else to be honest (i sed dont hit me )

But after i read the books i finally found fanfiction, and became really partial to the H/H stories. Then i read the books again and after that i just knew they should be together. I finally started to see all the signs and hidden meanings that pointed to it. Plus this wonderful site showed me even more ( i deserve to be a mod for that line right there ) and now im a firm H/Hr believer.........so basically its all one big happy ending

Well ive rabbled enough so ill speak you later, take care

Coupe

In the first book and possibly the second I thought that Ron and Hermione would be ok together but as I continued I became a Harry/Hermione shipper. I realised there was no other way! LOL!
Welcome to Portkey! I'm only a month old, so I'm still fairly new, but from a semi-newbie to a newbie, welcome.
Hope you enjoy it as much as I have (and will continue to do so)

Love Millie

When I first started reading the books, I didn't care who ended up with who. I thought it would be R/Hr and Harry with someone else. Then I read a really good H/hr fanfic (well... in my opinion) and just started liking H/Hr more than R/Hr. R/Hr just creeps me out the more I think of it!

Eeek! Ron and Hermione are just scarey together! Nuh-uh! Not cool!

The mental pictures I am unfortunately gathering are making me sick.....

Love Millie

This did it for me:

'And then Hermione did something she never did before, she kissed him on the cheek."

GoF.

And then I read this one fan fic about R/HR. It didn't seem right to me. And then I read an H/HR fic. Hook, line and sinker. Then I started reading the books over, I was starting to pick up things I never realized before and after reading them all about 5 times each I still notice the little things.

I watched the 1st movie and I said Harry is going to end up with her!

Max, looking at your avatar, then at your first sentence,

lets just say it brings some very nice mental pictures...

;D

Love Millie

I become a H/Hr when I saw HPSS in theaters. I looked over at my brother and told him that they should end up together. I haven't even read the books then.

*sighs* H/Hr so deserve to be together...

Damn, the school puters are being slow...

Love Millie

Well for me it was during the first movie after the great wizard scene. Thinking how much Hermione liked Harry and too scared to say something. I been a fan of both the books and the movies. Besides the fact R/H makes me really sick yuck!

[FONT=Optima]Hello I'm new here but feel very at home here!

At first I didn't ship at all, but the books gave me the idea that Hermione and Ron would get together. One day I wandered into a fanfiction site that was Hr/R, J/H only and I started reading. Well I will just say that I didn't get any warm fuzzy feelings, but I loved the idea of fanfiction. Thankfully I stumbled upon a HR/H story and I have been hooked ever since. Now that I have went back and reread the books with them in mind I can see that Harry and Hermione will make a very strong couple built on respect and friendship. That is the kind of relationship that last![/FONT]

What is really funny is that I never really notice the kiss at the end of GOF until I became a PumkinPier.

Cheers Jennifer

Hmmmmm.... good question! Ever since Harry and Hermione became friends. I just thought that they belonged together and I thought that they had great chemistry.
Yay H/Hr!!!

I was a dormant H/Hr shipper after reading the first four books - I never really thought about shipping, I just assumed that it would be H/Hr.

Then came the CoS-movie hug. I took one look at how good the actors looked together and lightbulbs started flashing in my head. Thus a H/Hr shipper was born.

I have to say though, I'm not a H/Hr shipper simply because of the movie, it's a plus, but when I mentally browsed through the books again, it seemed really H/Hr to me. Rereading the books, plus fanfics then changed me into a fully-fledged H/Hr shipper.

Hmmm, I might also have been partial towards H/Hr because PoA was the first book I read...

When you're eleven years old and you receive Harry Potter for the very first time, you don't usually think of romance at the time. Usually when the subject of a girl or boy getting together with the oppisite sex makes you think ew!, when you haven't even reached puberty yourself. But, after six wonderful years and you're going through those wonderful teenage hormones you think, yeah Harry has ta' totally end up with this chick, or guy... however your mind words

When I really thought about it and that wasn't until PoA first came out, I thought 'yeah, Harry is totally going to end up with Hermione. She's the only girl for him.' I never doubted it for a minute. Until I read OotP... I would have this feeling that Harry and Luna would end together, becuase you know they have a bit of the connection.

I think it was at the end when Luna told Harry about the veil, I just loved her above all the other characters then, how wonderful she had been. So, I couldn't decide whether Harry/Hermione or Harry/Luna was going to happen. Until of course I discovered this wonderful site and you wonderful people throw a bunch of theories at me and got me convinced.

Don't get me wrong... I still have this tiny weenie feeling in the back of my head that Harry will end up with Luna, but don't fret. I'm still 100% Harry and Hermione If those two ain't gonna happen then it's deffenetly going to be a Harry Luna thing

I think Luna would be perfect for Ron. He might not see it yet but, when he does he won't be able to keep his hands off of her Harry ends with Hermione, Ron and Luna fall in love and Ginny shags Neville. And they all live happily ever after... unless of course they all die at the end of book seven, that would be just tragic and not so happy... yeah anyways

Dreamer~

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