Harry Potter Romance discussion thread (Split from LTD)

[Zee]

idk if i have a rly bad hangover or if im still lsightly drunk but dis thread started to make my head hurt in the past few pages

this is the best sentence i have ever read

draco/hermione y/n?

i used to ship the shit outta that. hard to find good fic of it, but when it's done right it's done right

 

[Joker]

Monocles have been just been ruined for me forever.

 

[Celes Chere]

draco/hermione y/n?

I never got the appeal of this pairing. Someone explain. O_o

 

[Ryushikaze]

I was merely referring to the fact that you are engaging in an off-topic discussion, and by your own standards it needs to be put into it's own topic. No presumption necessary but good job doing that yourself.

You referred to my 'powers of serious moderation,' Joe. If that's not a presumption that I'm being serious, then what, pray tell, is it?
And you don't know what my standards are, nor should you be telling me how to do my job. The ways of the moderator are arcane and beyond the mortal ken.

Monocles have been just been ruined for me forever.

It's alright, you didn't deserve them.

 

[Dana Scully]

Well, it does have the classic love/hate, upper-class/lower-class (pureblood vs muggleborn) aspects to it.

I think my teenage self just liked it so much because of the ridiculous amounts of teenage angst involved, honestly.

edit: holy shit ryu, just let it go

 

[Ryushikaze]

edit: holy shit ryu, just let it go

Why should I? I'm having fun.

I let you lot have your fun, but now you get mad when I have some of mine? Such spoilsports. Tsk tsk.

 

[Alessa Gillespie]

anyways all the cool niggas know that aki/looney/winter luna/hermione/ron is harry potter's true otp

yeah leik originally i was way for heron or whatever name mushup it is nowadays but leik adding luna into that mix takes this whole pairing to a wonderful town known as albuquerque where the air smells of warm root beer and the towels are oh so fluffy

 

[Dana Scully]

Why should I? I'm having fun.

I let you lot have your fun, but now you get mad when I have some of mine? Such spoilsports. Tsk tsk.

Wth? I haven't said anything to you other than ask you to leave it alone, so I'm not sure why you're referring to 'your lot'. I realize you're not the only person making glib posts but you are the one carrying on with the whole thing.

If you want to have fun, then by all means start a new topic.

 

[Ryushikaze]

Wth? I haven't said anything to you other than ask you to leave it alone, so I'm not sure why you're referring to 'your lot'. I realize you're not the only person making glib posts but you are the one carrying on with the whole thing.

If you want to have fun, then by all means start a new topic.

Man, I just cannot make my posts over the top enough, can I. I suppose I will be forced to resort to the emoticon to indicate the poe.

I ask how I can be the one 'carrying on' with the whole thing when you admit I'm not the only one doing it.

Funny, though, how when you say 'take it to a new thread' the same people who get pissy when a mod tells them to take their nonsense to a new thread support your post.

Ah, what that says about those people.

But yes, back to discussions of all the crackiest of Harry Potter crack pairings not involving crack herself.

Speaking of, crack/hermione. TTLY canon.

 

[Zee]

ryu please stop, this is just embarrassing

I never got the appeal of this pairing. Someone explain. O_o

always thought he had a crush on her but he couldn't act on it because she was a ~mudblood~, but in later books i felt that JKR putting a lot of stock into inter house unity and draco realizing "holy shit working for the bad guys is actually scary" would have led to some interesting development between them. harry had a stalker like obsession and ron flat out hated him, hermione was always the level headed and surprisingly least judgmental when it came to things like this.

it's certainly a long shot pairing, but like i said some people get it really right and it's quite an interesting dynamic when they do

 

[Alessa Gillespie]

always thought he had a crush on her but he couldn't act on it because she was a ~mudblood~, but in later books i felt that JKR putting a lot of stock into inter house unity and draco realizing "holy shit working for the bad guys is actually scary" would have led to some interesting development between them. harry had a stalker like obsession and ron flat out hated him, hermione was always the level headed and surprisingly least judgmental when it came to things like this.

it's certainly a long shot pairing, but like i said some people get it really right and it's quite an interesting dynamic when they do

the way you describe this makes it sound like Equius and Aradia's relationship and now im thinking of him making a pureblood robot to put hermione's soul into when she died

~CREEPY~

 

[Zee]

[Aradia] then proceeds to FLIP THE FUCK OUT, RIP HER NEW HEART OUT, BEAT IT TO A PULP, SMACK THE SHIT OUT OF EQUIUS, and then KISS HIM.

NIGHTMARES FOREVER

 

[Celes Chere]

Sorry, I had to sift through all of the FUCKERY to read your actual responses to what I asked.

Err... I guess that makes sense, but I still don't see it ever working or being plausible or any sort of thing. Because a lot Dramione fans don't seem to recognize it as crack ship, but something that makes logical sense and could actually happen which I really cannot see. I never felt Draco had a crush on her, lmao. Actually, I think Draco is probably best alone, who he ended up ending up with was like lol wat.
And as much as I love yaoi at least I recognize it's total crack.

some people get it really right and it's quite an interesting dynamic when they do

Heh, well I see a lot of shit writing and I'm liek how much shit do I have to wade through to see something good? So it's like, why bother. =P Well, it's not even so much shit writing as in the way that they write (which holds skill, you can tell), more like they can't think of a good plot, or the characters are EXTREMELY OOC. It pushes me away. It's also usually way too cliche, bad boy for the nerdy girl.

 

[Zee]

It's honestly just speculation, but book 3 gave me the impression he might have crushed on her, or at least didn't hate her as much as he let on. He seems to milk every opportunity to get Harry into some shit the second he breathes wrong, but Hermione slapped him in broad daylight with witnesses and it was just dropped. I know there's the whole issue of him maybe being embarrassed about a girl hitting him, but he also acted like a little pussy when he got a minor cut so I don't feel like he has much in the way of pride when it comes to that.

Anyway that was really long. Never said H/Dr was plausible in the book, but in the realm of fic, I've seen it work.

It's also usually way too cliche, bad boy for the nerdy girl.

seriously the kid's like a nosy chihuahua at worst, let's not go into the draco in leather pants

also pretty much all the HP romances are horrible cliches.

Also LJ had (haven't checked it in ages) a HP fanfic rec community. Never look through FF.net for fic unless you are seriously desperate, that place is a cesspool.

 

[Celes Chere]

seriously the kid's like a nosy chihuahua at worst, let's not go into the draco in leather pants

EXACTLY. I'm talking about the way people write the characters... xD OOC, OVERLY cliche, etc. I don't want to read something like that. Which is why I stay away from most fanfics, and since there was like NO chemistry between them in the books and the fanwork doesn't really pull me in, I can't get into it and I don't really understand why it's so popular. xD Even after you just explained it to me, it's like I can see that but yeah... it's just not enough to really pull me into it, or become as popular as it is (imo). That's just me though, I suppose. <XD

 

[Zee]

Well it's crackship, which is usually like, it just appeals to you or it doesn't. I love Aeris/Lightning and I can explain why I think it would work but they don't even exist in the same universe so trying to explain it only goes so far if someone's just not into it.

 

[OneWingedDemon]

Hermione/Draco? You people on crack.

Draco/Harry. CANNOT BE DENIED.

 

[Alex]

Ginny is a whore yo

 

[looneymoon]

It's honestly just speculation, but book 3 gave me the impression he might have crushed on her, or at least didn't hate her as much as he let on. He seems to milk every opportunity to get Harry into some shit the second he breathes wrong, but Hermione slapped him in broad daylight with witnesses and it was just dropped. I know there's the whole issue of him maybe being embarrassed about a girl hitting him, but he also acted like a little pussy when he got a minor cut so I don't feel like he has much in the way of pride when it comes to that.

There was also that part in the 7th book at Malfoy's Manor when they were asking Draco to identify the trio and when he saw Hermione he claimed he did not know her.

I mean there's no real canon indication that he actually crushed on her per se, but he definitely had some sort of begrudging respect for her. Of course same could be said for both Harry and Ron, but with Hermione it speaks greater volumes because she is basically everything he was raised to despise. And I think it was always hard for him to admit that she is an all-around better witch than he is... but I think by the end of the series he's managed to accept that and it's just great subtle character development hnngh.

Yes I love Draco.

Also I ship Draco/Ginny because lawl it's like Romeo + Juliet with Claire Danes and Leonardo Dicaprio. That movie had an awesome soundtrack.

 

[Elisa Maza]

.......sideyeing you rn

The reason I wrote this was because I thought it wouldn't have the cliche fandom wank hero/heroine crap. Apparently and obviously, I was wrong.

Rowling's female characters make up for any lack of heroine. Hell, I wouldn't mind if no story would ever had any heroine had the female character been so good. They'd pwn heroes in a heartbeat.

Besides, how many stories have heroines that suck?

EDIT: Because I'm Internet illiterate... what does "rn" mean? Sorry if it's a dumb question.

 

[Zee]

I think you're confusing the concept of heroism with the function of a protagonist. Because Hermione is clearly a heroine in the story.

rn = right now

 

[Elisa Maza]

No, I take the concept of hero/heroine as "main character" and main character for me is the one who drives the plot, his/her past is relevant to the general plot, his being is central to both plot and story, etc. Hermione lacks these elements, just like Ron. If we say that Hermione is the heroine/female protagonist, we must immediately take in Ron as well.

oic

BTW, I always thought of shipping in HP so... pointless and mundane. O_o I was like "We have a story that talks about freedom of choice, bigotry of many kinds, slavery, and love as the power that conquers all and people are pre-occupied with shipping?" Especially since Rowling herself didn't care much about who gets with whom.

Of course, now I know better.

 

[Zee]

The main character is a protagonist. A protagonist may or may not be the hero/heroine. Being heroic simply means that character does heroic things. They aren't necessarily interchangeable.

And yes, you can include Ron in that.

 

[Elisa Maza]

The main character is a protagonist. A protagonist may or may not be the hero/heroine. Being heroic simply means that character does heroic things. They aren't necessarily interchangeable.

And yes, you can include Ron in that.

I must have confused the English with the Greek term, then, because in Greek hero/heroine DOES include the semantic connotation of main character/protagonist, as well. When we say hero/heroine, most of the times, we mean main character/protagonist. Apologies.

Erm, I don't think we can put Ron and Harry in the same level of importance to the plot. O_O

 

[Zee]

A protagonist (from the Greek πρωταγωνιστής protagonistes, "one who plays the first part, chief actor"

A hero (heroine for females) (Ancient Greek: ἥρως, hḗrōs), in Greek mythology and folklore, was originally a demigod, their cult being one of the most distinctive features of ancient Greek religion.[1] Later, hero (male) and heroine (female) came to refer to characters who, in the face of danger and adversity or from a position of weakness, display courage and the will for self sacrifice—that is, heroism—for some greater good of all humanity. This definition originally referred to martial courage or excellence but extended to more general moral excellence.

So yeah.

Erm, I don't think we can put Ron and Harry in the same level of importance to the plot. O_O

>plot importance
>heroism