I don't really remember when I became a H/Hr shipper. It was all at once. It was more a process over time. I kinda tripped over something and rolled... and rolled... and rolled until I became an H/Hr shipper.

It all started when I read the books. I got major H/Hr vibes through most of them (though I was ignorant at the time. Stupid 10 year old self.). But as I myself matured, and my vivid teenage gril imagination took hold, I realized that it could be very plausible for Harry and Hermione to get together. But I also felt that Ron and Hermione was possible.

Then I rolled upon the fandom. Here people actually argued the H/Hr what going to be what really happened and why. I raed through a couple of those (as well as a couple of H/Hr fics) and I was converted. Completely.

Yeah, I guess that's it. Nothing glamourous. But hey, I started reading when I was ten. And ten years often find ANY relationship squicky.

after i watched the first film i thought harry and hermione would be the best couple
i was heartbroken when the scene in chamber of secrets where hermione and ron have this awkward scene where they where about to hug but i got over it
im a 100% harry hermione shipper

mmmm... I guess it all started when I finished reading GoF.... I was 12 by then. I finished the book thinking: okay, R likes Hr but she likes H. Then like H was my fav character I thought, well, it'd be nice if they got together.
Then I started to become an obsessed fan and discovered the whole internet fandom. There, I discovered the whole battle of ships, and fanfiction. I started to realize that I liked better reading stories where H/Hr got together. Then I became a shipper. Oh, and then I started hating R/Hr.

I had read the first two books when I was 12 and until the end of CoS I had no ships whatsoever. I didn't even know what a ship was.

Anyway, at the end of CoS when Hermione runs toward Harry yelling 'you solved it, you solved it' I couldn't stop smiling for some reason.... And once I read PoA (my favorite in the series by the way ), I was a firm H/Hr shipper.

After I read GOF I thought there was going to be a R/Hr romance, wasn't really a shipping person back then. I then got into HP books and looked up a few websites and then I saw the shipping thread on COS Forums. I checked out their H/Hr file and everything much much more sense than that of the R/Hr relationship. So I switched sides and been there ever since.

I guess it started after GOF. I started to hate Ron so much. He reminded me of an Ex-girlfriend I had that loved to needle me and tried to crush any hopes I had for the future. Just a very cruel person that really only cared about themselves and no one else's feelings. so I dumped her and was alone for a few years till I found a great great girl She's got 2 masters degrees and speaks 3 languages.
Anyway I thought how could Hermione ever end up with Ron, she's too smart for that. So I picked up my sword and joined the Pumpkin Navy. Besides Harry has had so much pain in his life, how could he miss out on the best person that's right under his nose too. Give the kid a break.

~VicTor~

I became a H/Hr shipper (without knowing what shipping was) when I saw the train scene (because I saw the movies first), when Hermione starts talking very fast and Harry just looks at her with his eyes very open, and she mends his glasses I just thought "awww, that girl is so clever and Harry is so cute, they are going to be together forever."
and pumpkin pie is very good!
and Lori's fan fics are the best ever!!! Don't know why I said that, but heck.

Well like most people it was after GoF. I started looking at all these rumours on websites about the up coming books and one of them was Harry and Hermione going on a date at the end of Book 7. And then something clicked.

I started getting into Fan Fiction a little. I believe some of the first I read were Draco/Hermione. But I think it started with a R/HR fic that I read on a website. It just didn't seem right, or feel right. I kept saying to myself "But what about Harry? he deserves her" So after a couple more H/HR fics and reading the books over again I started picking out A LOT of H/Hr moments I hadn't noticed before. The shipper side of me exploded with happiness. Shortly after I found a thread called the HMS Pumpkin Pie...the rest is history.

As a hopeless unromantic, I don't have any nice revelation-esque story about how I came to be a H/Hr shipper. The first time I read through the series, it registered in the back of my mind that a really shoddy bickering/tension sort of relationship seemed to be developing between Ron and Hermione, and that it would be disgustingly cliched if it actually happened. Then the thinking gears starting clicking and I wondered how many people had picked up on the supposed R/Hr 'romantic tension' and how much more logical it would be if Harry and Hermione actually ended up together, partially in order to prove that the idiotic bickering-cliche is not necessarily an indicator of an automatic everlasting love, both in literature and in real life.

After that, I began to read the series more critically and was able to pick up on the more subtle nuances. Shipping has always been an extremely low priority to me when reading the books, yet I was still impressed by the textual evidence supporting a growing and developing relationship between Harry and Hermione. It immediately made perfect sense to me after around the fifteenth reading of GoF (I know, it takes awhile for me to be completely convinced on things of this nature). Fan fic hasn't made any difference whatsoever to me, because I've never read any.

I guess the important thing here is that my first and indifferent impression of romance in the series was not of H/Hr. I was a member of that evil school of thought that R/Hr was a given, only because Rowling had established 'tension' between them. Picking up on H/Hr actually required a closer examination of the text, which is part of why I believe that it fits in with the rest of the series: after all, don't the most important parts of the story require some degree of thinking in order to understand?

Originally posted at the FAP, posted here for archive reasons. (THX galtxtr!) Slight modification of original, written at end of this post,

There's a long, long, many post-required thread that Yami Kraden at gamefaqs.com wrote about Harry and Hermione. It's that that stuck me to the shipping. Then again, it could've also been a fiction I read a LONG time ago, called Trouble in Paradise.

I became a H/Hr supporter since i first read the books! i write heaps of H/Hr fan fiction and am convinced that they're going to end up together. But what really made me even more convinced was after i read OotP it just had so many clues that harry and Hermione are going to end up together. I was never a R/Hr supporter due to the fact that they always fight and they would never be able to handle a realationship!

Peculiar that I haven't posted here yet...

I started reading Harry Potter around late 2000. We only had the first book by then, and my mom made me read it, since she liked it so much. I resisted at first, but gave in. To my surprise, I liked it. A lot. So I gobbled up the next two when we got those, and anxiously awaited the much-heralded 4th book.

I read that too... And I read all the books again several times. At this point, I had no idea a huge fandom existed and such. I knew about fanfiction, having been a lurker in the Star Trek and Star Wars fandom for years. Still, I didn't read any fanfiction.

Yet, there always to me seemed to be something mature and mututal about Harry and Hermione's relationship. From the very beginning, I always thought there was something deep between the two of them, that maybe even they weren't aware of yet. My suspicions seemed to be slowly confirmed in PoA and GoF. To say the least, I began thinking that eventually, Harry and Hermione would get together. I didn't even know what a ship was at this point, mind you.

It was late 2001 that I discovered HP fanfiction, while searching for more information. I quickly discovered FA and found some stories which sounded interesting. I was quickly disgusted by the large amount of R/Hr fics. I wondered how these people could be so blind to what was really going on. (no offense intended, I know some pretty cool R/Hrs) Anyhow, I discovered ships soon after this, and of course, realized I was an "H/Hr" shipper.

Anyways, I was still lurking at this point. But I knew my preferences, and just knew that it was more plausible. They had some kind of special connection that doesn't happen too often. It had to be them.

Darkstar

I first became an H/Hr addict when I read Cassandra Claires stories last year. Pathetic isn't it?

I became an H/Hr shipper after knowing the trio> At that moment, i felt that Harry was meant for Hermione and vice versa. ( totally pathetic)

i can sense that they complete each other.

I became a H/H shipper when i was very young. I was searching for Harry Potter and i came across a fanfiction by some girl....unfortunatley I can't find it no more,and I got hooked on it.I read the story then went forward,reading other peoples,and writing my own. I don't write my own any more for...personal reasons,so thats how I became a H/H shipper

I have rather weird story. It all started when HP first came out and Pokemon was still had its grip on American youngsters. I... Liked Pokemon as much as it's hard to believe. Anyway, back to the story. I happened upon a copy of the books in my library and I had a book report to do, so I picked the book up and I loved it. Even more than Pokemon!

I thought, 'If Ron and Hermione were to get together, methinks she'd want to strangle him...'

However, Harry and Hermione... The thought of them kissing made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. After GOF, I was all, 'Whoa man! Ron really acted like a jerk during the Yule ball.'

And even weirder yet, R/Hr shippers said the bickering made those two just adorable. That simply didn't make any type of sense to me AT ALL. I also really loved the way H/Hr had the better arguments, and the fanfiction just made me all the happier!

Later I became a hardcore H/Hr shipper anfter OOtP, despite everything that happened!

I was just wondering how you felt when you became an H/Hr shipper. How did you even decide to ship Pumpkin Pie?

For me, It was practically the only thing I looked forward to in the entire book. Of course I cared about the other things, but H/Hr was the main one. I became an H/Hr shipper right when Hermione was introduced. I just felt that Harry had a certain bond with her that would last for a long time. Besides, pumpkin pie always tasted rather well...

I think my H/Hr obssesion actually came into being with 'Philosopher's stone'. When I started reading CoS I began to think that the series may end with R/Hr and I wasn't too pleased about it and so I decided to read PS again. It was when I read of Hermione hugging Harry after the potions task in PS that I felt enlightened. So then obviously I read CoS all over again to disapprove any idea of R/Hr and in doing so became a H/Hr.


But this all happened just before PoA came out so there was hardly any fanfiction around and hardly any of my friend's understood just why I liked the Harry Potter books so much...now they know


-Miss420

I became a shipper long before I read the books.

A girl I once knew(she was a R/Hr shipper) was a bit obssessed with the HP books, so I thought I check out what the fuss was about. I went online to read what people had to say about the books. Then I stumbled on fanfictions, I guess I was lucky that the first fic I read was a H/Hr. Half way through the fic, I ran and got me book 1 and 3. I couldn't find 2. Anyways I read book 1 and 3 and I was hooked. From fanfiction I got into forums, I usually stood on the sidelines (I wasn't very good in English) and watched as shippers tried to kill each other over ships( Of course they claimed to be polite). Back then there were only a couple ships, H/Hr, R/Hr, AD/M, J/L but then some sick ships started form. So I laid low. But now I'm back. And I'm still H/Hr to the core.

I have this theory I made in a dream.
The prominent student characters are HmHr (Harry/Malfoy/Hermione/Ron) which mean "Harry marries Hermione", take that you muggles.

How did I become a Harry/Hermione Shipper? I'm not exactly sure how, my friend introduced me to fanfic and I just started reading stories. I think it was Seamy on Fanfiction.net, I started reading his story, and haven't really read any other ship since, Ahhh I'm obbsessed with fanfic, Harry/Hermione just seem to make the most sense to me, I mean if Ron and Hermione went out I'm positive they'd kill each other.

I`m not sure. When I started liking ff`s. R/Hr never seemed right to me, h/hr was perfect (and still is)

I became a H/Hr shipper long before I read any fanfic. I think it was when I first read the books : when I read the part in GoF when Ron is no longer speaking to Harry, and H/Hr are together all the time, I thought "they are so cute together".

I first became a Harry/Hermione shipper when I read Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban also know as Harry Potter and Hermione's Arm-Grabbing Fetish. I just loved how they worked together and the arm-grabbing thing some thing has to be going on there.

Goblet of Fire cemented me.... Hermione was just too cute with the toast and ignoring Krum to talk to Harry.

I first became a Harry/Hermione shipper the very first time i read Harry Potter way back in the 5th grade! I just knew that they were meant to be! None of my friends believe me, but it is just so obvious sometimes!! H/H forever!

Well to tell you the truth i wasn't in favour of any ship until i read GoF, and even then i wasn't a H/Hr... i was actually (believe it or not!) infavour of Harry and Parvati! well anyway, that was like when i was 12 or 13 so i didn't have a clue... so then OotP comes out and i'm 15 and alot wiser so i start to think that Harry and Hermione are a must couple instead of Hermione with Ron as i had heard some people in the past say... and thus my craze began!! ...
I'm now proud to say that i'm 110% H/Hr shipper... i also have written fan fiction for them and because i feel sorry for ron with all those times that he hasn't been with Harry and Hermione when they've had those big moments in the books, i pair him up with whoever i find suitable in my story... anyway enough of that...
The fact that FF.net has loads of fics, is another reason that i got more into the H/Hr thing... i'm hooked and i can't stop!! i'm serious...
Anyway enough of this... i gotta take a look around for more H/Hr fics...
Peace out
Love's Fool

Well, i can't say i'm new but i don't post up very often so today, i'm stretching out a bit.

First, i was neautral. I hadn't read the books and i didn't care. My best friend Melanie used to scream at me about them, saying they were the best thing since sliced bread. I didn't believe her but decided to read the books anyway just to settle that growing pest inside me. I was sure that if i didn't, i'd have nothing to talk about at the next dinner party when everyone was discussing Harry's latest dream or what the real meaning behind Harry's rescue attempt of Hermione in the fourth book.

I have to admit that I was a H/G shipper first...i know...i'm sorry but it had to be said eventually. I was a H/G shipper until i read some H/Hr fics written by one of my friends who was dying to make me believe in the goodness of H/Hr.......turns out it was fate actually. Most of my earliest fics are H/G based and i have to say i'm ashamed of myself for doing so.

And a .........R/Hr shipper.

Come to think about it, i wrote a really good fic about R/Hr somewhere...
Anyway, once i read this fic, which was 'That Grin' by my friend, i was...needless to say...changed forever. I couldn't think about R/Hr let alone H/G anymore.
Encaptured by this new light that had filled me to the brim, i sat down at my computer and started to type out all my thoughts on the wonders of H/Hr. I even made a list of why they'd be perfect together and...mistakingly...posted it up on the R/hr board i was listed with.

I was chucked off only hours later.

But the magic of H/hr has stayed with me ever since and has helped me spawn, in my opinion, some of my best fanfics.

My belief started when i read PoA and still stays strong to this day. The first two books had no indications of romance as they were too young.

I actually read the three books within 24 hours and have read all of them at least 5 times.

It was evident to me and I managed to turn a R/hr believer into a H/Hr shipper through sheer force of will and arguing. OotP helped a lot in that. it is my new bible along with the real one.

Woo-Hoo. First post. I figured it might as well be right to the point :-)

Long ago, back in October of 2001 I was bored and I had nothing to read so I said, "You know what? I guess I'll try those 'Harry Potter' books everyone is talking about." Well, I ordered them, read them in a week, and loved them.

Then I decided to do what I normally do when I've gotten into something new. Check out the fanfiction/fandom. I'll say that I didn't last very long in my checking because no one seemed to be writing what I wanted to be reading.

See, H/Hr wasn't a ship I had get in to. It was just there. From Day One it made perfect sense to me for so many reasons that I could barely fathom any other ship. I didn't have to look for it or fanwank it. It seemed a foregone conclusion in my mind that they should be together. So when I did my short foray into fandom I was disconcerted by the amount of people pre-occupied with Ron/Hermione. I sat around thinking, "Ron/Hermione? Why? They're terrible for each other. I sincerely doubt they'd be friends if not for Harry. And all they ever do is bicker. That's not cute. It's childish and it brings both characters down. They bring out the worst in each other. No matter what teen!culture wants to tell us, opposites do not attract, fighting does not mean that the characters are meant to be together. Ron/Hermione would never last. Provided they could ever stop arguing long enough to get together..." and along that vein (saving something for the discussion threads *g*) I found myself withdrawing from the fandom because it just didn't seem to be friendly to my kind.

I was overjoyed when the production stills for PoA were released points at icon and last week after watching the trailer for the five hundred millionth time I had an urge to try the fandom again. And found this wonderful place.

Achem.

Now I have fanfiction to go read.

squees

You know, my story is kind of funny. At least to me it is...

I'm pretty regular here at Portkey, as you can probably tell by my number of posts. But I was drawn here by D/G, and kind of avoided the H/Hr stuff because it never sparked my interest. I was undecided on all my other ships.

But today I was wandering around the site, looking for mor conversations to join, when BAM! it hit me!

I love H/Hr now too!

So, you all have suceeded in converting another shipper to H/Hr-ness.

I became a Hermione and Harry shipper when i finished reading the first book!!!

That's just what made sense to me in all the books. I saw it in the books and I saw it in the movies. It's very clear there's something going on! It may not make the most sense at this point in time (all those debates over Ron and Hermione) but to me I think it's going to be what happens. And even if it doesn't I'll still be a H/Hr shipper to the core!

For myself there was no real defining moment and if i an totally honest i didn't read the books till somewhere about two years after PoA was released but back on topic there was no defining moment Harry and HErmione seemed to me as the only real way to go as Hermione and Ron have absolutely nothing in common and if you remove Harry from the mix I really doubt they would be friends in fact it would more than like mean Hermione had died in toilet from the troll incident

to tell people the truth, I wasn't a shipper until I read PoA...
after just reading PoA only once, BAM!!! i was a H/Hr shipper!!! (it was my first day of reading HP though... I read SS, CoS and Poa in just one day!!!)
there wasn't much indications of romance until the third book...

I think that the argueings between Ron and Hermione is not a sign of romance, but just plain disagreement.
So, since then, I am a proud and fully committed H/Hr shipper!!!
YAY!!!

HB

I think it was around the third book I became a H/Hr shipper. I think it may have been due to lack of major ship, or I just didn't see R/Hr happening and staying. Though, I think it was the latter. R/Hr might work, in the midst of their adolescence, but Ron isn't steadfast enough for Hermione. That's what I always saw.

I've been a shipper for awhile, just never wrote a fic about it. Expect a few vignettes when the muse strikes.

I became a Harry/Hermione shipper when I was in the seventh grade. At the time was against reading the Harry Potter books because I didn't want to go along with the 'fade' of the time in my school. Well after months of bugging me my friends finally got me to read the first book. From that moment on I was hooked.

Orginally I was a Ron and Hermione fan but by the third book my opinion changed totally. Hermione and Harry seemed more logical and more exciting. I think that while at times opposites do attrack, people who have a lot in common attrack to each other more often.

By the fifth book I was hooked for good on the Harry/Hermione ship. I hope that people will keep their mind open to this ship because they do make a cute couple.

I'm sure I posted here before...

Well, I was a Harry/Cho and Ron/Hermione shipper before (shocking, I know) and I hated Harry/Ginny and Harry/Hermione at first. I was poisoned by a R/Hr that H/Hr just doesn't click.

And I believed it.

Then I started reading all these awesome H/Hr stories--Butterfly Kisses and Expecting, to name two--and I was blown away. And then...I discovered this site! And I'm pretty sure I'm a very stable H/Hr shipper now.

Although I have the teeniest craving for Harry/Luna. *blinks*

well.....i have been an H/Hr shipper since 6th grade when we had to read the first book. i'm not really a fan of Ron, so that's one major reason why i don't like R/Hr. and when i read the chapter (i forget which one) where Hermione told Harry that he was a great wizard....i was hooked for sure!

I didn't really have a ship. About 2 years ago, I started going on message board. I read posts on H/H and I immediatly loved that pairing. I've been a H/H shipper ever since.

ok heres my HP story of me turning into a H/Hr shipper (lol)

in the 5th grade(10) i didnt even know what Harry Potter was ( very imbarasing i know) until my friend was talking to someone else saying that its a really cool book(she hates reading)

in the 6th grade(11) i hated it because my teacher read it to the class and it seemed so0o0o0o(.....) boring( i hated reading until that summer). For chirstmis my dad got my cousin the box set of the 1st 2nd and 3rd HP books and i got mad ( i still dont know why i did ) so that summer i got 1-4 for my birthday.

i know your probley thinking that has nothig to do with this topic but ehh i had to give background info

When i was reading the first book (i was in gr 7 then(12) ) im like " oh so Harry and Hermione are going to start going out in the 2nd book?" ( that was when Hermione was saying that hes a great wizarid ), then when i was done the 2nd im like "what the hell? ok the 3rd then?" ya and so on, but the 3rd convinsed me that they WILL get together .... But the thing is i NEVER once thought that Harry would be with anyone else (Ginny, Cho ect...) and Hermione with anyone else (Ron, Krum ect...). Fanfiction.net told me that more people thought that Harry and Hermione would be together. Then one fanfiction i read on ff.net it told me to go here and ya so when i read a post from a R/Hr shipper i new that ppl thought they would get together as well. Then when i saw that i liked H/Hr even more

so thats how i became a H/Hr shipper.. When well since i started reading it so i guess i was 12, ya 12

ahhhhhh I remember it well, It was after I had read the 4th Harry Potter book and I was vunrable to any shipping at that point, and It just so happened that I came across a site called Portkey.org whilst looking for book 5 rumors, and There you have it, I could of well become a Ron and Hermione shipper (god forbbid) but I am a fully fledge H/Hr and proud of it since September of 2001!

Ok, I just think that they look cute together!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And who ever said that HP/GW shippers is ridiculous, I agree!! Ginny is like a year younger than he is. I refuse to read H/G fanfiction!!!

HELENz

I think PoA was really what sealed the deal for me becoming an H/H shipper. Frankly, I wasn't shipping anyone before the third book because I feel that few people start having feelings for the opposite sex until around 13. Besides, PoA broke the mold in the HP series by making it more than just a kid's story.

I used to hate H/G, but I have recently read a few stories that are pretty good. H/L is not an inconceivable idea either, but still not my preferred ship.

It was love at first sight, really. I'm a H/Hr fan even before I read the first book. I had no idea what Harry Potter was about until I saw the trailer of the first movie. I saw the "You are a great wizard scene" and that was it -- Love at first sight. -- At the time, I didn't even know that the little girl was Hermione. The movie was released near Christmas so my brother gave me the first book as a present. I read it and I loved it. So then I went to the cinema at the beginning of february and...

Well, that's other story.

Just always saw them as meant to be. Still do.

LW

After I read this fic called A kiss, Just One Little Kiss. It was kinda cheesy but it really opened my mind to the possibility of H and H happening. So I've been a HandH fan and shipper ever since. I even have a series of six stories already put together of that (with a few others as well).

Wow...First post on Portkey. Go me!

Now, I've been a Harry Potter fan for as long as I can remember, but it wasn't until this summer, (about a month before book five) that I was actually introduced to fandom.

Back then, I read it all. Harry/Cho, Ron/Hermione, Ginny/The Giant Squid...You name it, I read it. I read all the reasons why Blah and Blahblah will get together, though nothing to make me dedicated to one ship. That is, until I found one particular ship that I just loved. And it was, of course, D/G.

Draco Malfoy/Ginny Weasley--No canon, no rules, no boundaries.

And I started reading a ton of Draco/Ginny fics. I didn't really care about the secondary ship, so long as it was D/G.

But then I found this fic on Fanfiction.net...
Now that I think back, it really wasn't even that great of a fic.

I don't even remember the name of it. The author stopped writing it, I know that much. My memories so bad I could barely tell you what it was about. All I'm really for sure about is that it was novel-length, seventh year, 'we're about to have the final battle' type of fics. And the secondary ship was H/Hr.

Now, mind you. I'm a full-fledge D/G-er, and I usually skip the chapters that had to do with the secondary ship. But this one caught my fancy, so I read it.

It was like getting hit by a bolt of lightning. Suddenly, my eyes were open. I don't why, but the way the author described it, worded it, maybe, made me think. Harry...and Hermione? That's crazy! (because I was so sure Harry was going to die at the end of the series). But it struck me, hard.

Struck me hard enough to go back and read the first four books to look for any and all Harry/Hermione clues and moment. Hit me hard enough to giggle when I reread Hermione kissing Harry on the cheek at the end of GoF. Struck me enough to sigh happily at the hug in the Chamber of Secrets movie.

And what do you know? A few months later, and here I am, dedicated H/Hr shipper!

Ok, here's my story, but you're going to roll your eyes at me for it.

I didn't read any of the books until AFTER my girlfriend dragged me to see Chamber of Secrets in theatres. On the way home from the movies, I stopped at the bookstore and bought all four of the books that were available. I took them home, and had them read within a week. It wasn't enough, so I went online in search of fanfiction, to satiate my hunger for HP reading. The first story I ever read was the Psychic Serpent. I liked the story, but really didn't pay too much attention to the romance aspect of it.

Then I began to read the sequel. By chapter three, I couldn't read it anymore. Something about the R/Hr pairing just turned me off like a lightswitch. I found many more fics, and most were R/Hr. I couldn't understand the logic behind it, so I read all four books again. I noticed nothing in ANY of them that pointed to any serious romantic pairing.

So, it was back to my old friend, the internet. I wanted to see where all of the R/Hr people were getting their pairing. I was surprised at the things I'd missed, so I read the books again, looking for the subtext behind certain things. I found more H/Hr than R/Hr, and I wondered if anyone else saw this as well. I found Portkey shortly thereafter, and read some of the stories.

I then saw all the debate threads on FictionAlley, and noticed how heated they became. I set about determining the most likely pairing, and couldn't make up my mind. I tried to read more R/Hr, but I just couldn't get into the stories as much.

I then stepped back, and took the logical approach. In any heterosexual love story, the male's love interest is ALWAYS the biggest, most important female character. Hermione Granger is, without a doubt, the biggest, most important female character in the series. That sealed it for me. I was an H/Hr shipper, and there was nothing to be done about it. I've been an H/Hr shipper for well over a year now, and there is no end in sight.