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In the past month, people have got to this site by searching for:

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interesting facts about ecstacy
where do lentils come from?
harry hermione shippers
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do nuts count as a portion of fruit and veg?

For future reference, the answer to the final question is no. And lentils mainly come from Canada. And Harry-Hermione shippers are wrong. And interestingly, ecstacy is the street name of 1-(benzo-1,3-dioxol-5-yl)- N-methylpropan-2-amine. And speaking of carrots, I think my supper is ready.

Matthew @ 18:19, August 15, 2005 to Miscellaneous | Comments (10)

Comments:

Verity

I think it’s rather unfair to say they are ‘wrong’, Match.

Comment added at 21:16, August 15, 2005

Matthew

I think I’m perfectly within my rights… after all, I was one of them for a time, and HBP is quite obvious…

Comment added at 21:28, August 15, 2005

Verity

Well, I think Rowling made it clear early on (if not from the start, I certainly can’t remember) that it would be H(r)/R all the way even if it isn’t really that well developed (they bicker! that means they love each other!) but I don’t really think you can say any shipper is wrong per se, even if their pairing isn’t featured in canon, because the characters aren’t real people and in some way are the readers intellectual property and although it won’t happen in canon there’s always fanon and… Personally I prefer them as a platonic threesome.

Comment added at 00:31, August 16, 2005

Mr E

Sorry, what does “H(r)/R” mean?

And you don’t know what’s going to happen in book 7 yet.

Comment added at 19:35, August 16, 2005

Sheepie

Hermione/Ron

And we have seen an interview in which Rowling kind of confirms it totally and utterly.

Comment added at 15:50, August 17, 2005

Mr E

Confirms it?

I don’t really understand what the “(r)” means. Why not just H/R? If you need to differentiate from Harry/Ron shippers – if they exist – then an “r” doesn’t really help if both names have one in them.

Comment added at 18:36, August 17, 2005

Matthew

It could help, if that was the standard way to differentiate. It does seem slightly odd though.

Verity: that all seems very postmodern. I can say that they are wrong, as I’m talking of canon not fanon, and in canon they are definitely wrong. To deny them wrongness would be to deny absolute truth! (And would be wrong.)

Comment added at 08:11, August 18, 2005

Rory

I like the phrase “fanon”. And I like Verity’s idea of the characters being the intellectual property of the individual readers…

Comment added at 13:44, August 18, 2005

Matthew

How is “fanon” a phrase?

I’m perfectly happy with them having their own little Harry Potter dream world where what they think goes as the characters in their mind belong to them, etc. etc. – however, there is still the absolute truth that they are wrong.

Comment added at 13:54, August 18, 2005

Rory

Er, I mean “word”, not “phrase”. Although “neologism” would likewise suffice.

Comment added at 14:23, August 20, 2005