5061: Disenchanted - Hermione Granger

[pottersues]

I figured getting back into the routine of things on the first of the month would be the best, but for some reason I got the good idea to look at Harry Potter stories on the pit which somehow involved COVID and I managed to come across today’s doozy.

Title: Disenchanted
Perpetrator: Miss Corbyn
Sue-O-Meter: Toxic
Cover/Banner Art: Their avatar is

Comments

[yemi_hikari]

The funny thing about the Romione shippers insisting that people read the play as proof that their ship works is the fact when I read the play I saw it as proof the ship doesn't work. I prefer the pairing in the live action movies, but that's because of the actor and actress not to mention - well, there's a reason why I wrote a couple of one-shots about the characters from one media being exposed to another media and noting they're not the same. None of that copying lines from the books or movies either that people have gotten into.

In regards to pairings, I don't get this whole inability to look at ones own ship with a critical eye, but then I also came into fandom when the word OTP was a taboo word. Basically, it was sometime after it was invented and meant to mean the pairing one would argue as most true which in itself lends to OTP having a critical analysis aspect to it, but before it came back into vouge to be used with people thinking it means "favorite pairing" and thus OC pairings and crossover pairings count. I still remember the Jelsa writer who was upset that Jelsa didn't count on Wattpad for a contest asking for a story about ones OTP.

[darth_gojira]

Yeah, I've come to terms that my OTP isn't popular or even considered, and that's because there aren't that many canon interactions and the author herself never considered it. I'm appalled it's less popular than other ships, but I understand why it's not as popular as Hermione or Romione.

I've seen Romione done well, but the author has to balance between make them between their canon personalities and an actually healthy dynamic.

[yemi_hikari]

I actually adore the writer who is able to do that well, particularly since they typically end up not getting together or staying together in the stories I write as I do them much better as just friends or mutual exes.

As for popularity, I think unpopular and popular ships have their own advantages. With my unpopular ships the chances of someone writing a new story is slim, but I don't have to try and dig something out like my popular ones. Sometimes the stories for the unpopular ship end up being better written as well.