H.M.S. Harmony: The Greatest Ship I've Ever Known

[runeharmonic]

My final thoughts about HP and shipping, also posted at HF.

Comments

[movedbyyou]

Beautiful said. I really needed that today.

I expected JKR to sink HHr. I honestly did. But I DID NOT expect her to be so cold hearted like she was in that interview. People keep on saying that delusion was not her word but excuse me, laughing at our expense and calling us militant does not make it better. And laughing at Emerfuckingson wording is just as bad as saying. So yeah, she technically didn't say the word, but does not mean it didnt ring true to her.

Also, as for Ron and Hermione being the canon ship all along? Call me stubborn, call me bias, just call me whatever you want to call me but I don't buy it. Harry and Hermione have much TOO many canon moments for it all to be accidental. JKR got influenced by her fans and no matter what she says, I'm not going to think otherwise. If Harry and Hermione were indeed a red-herring all along, she did a poorly job at it. And if it was indeed all an accident, it was JKR's best accident ever. Too bad she didn't see a goldmine when she had it.

I am also leaving the HP fandom but definitely not this ship. Hell fucking no am not. It's going to take a lot more than JKR's hurtful words for me to abandon Harmony. Everything that Harry and Hermione stand for are still there. At least everything before book 6. As long as we have people faithful to this ship, the Harmony ship has not and will never sink. I hope you continue to draw and write H/Hr. It's now more than ever that we have to show JKR that regardless of her hurtful words, the HHr ship is stronger than ever.

And apparently people STILL want to debate with us after the interview massacre?! To that I say, fuck you very much. :)

[nellie_darlin]

Hey, just a curious R/Hr shipper here, wending my destructive way in an attempt to see where H/Hrs are coming from. Do you possibly have an essay listing these "canon moments"? I don't want to make trouble, I just want to defend JKR from personal attacks. I'm open to persuasion (although the evidence will have to be bloody good.)

[runeharmonic]

Check out JKR's interview, first, then check her website. Next, check out the Craft or Crap thread at HF. You'll see where we're coming from there.

Thanks for your genuine interest. If I seemed a bit irritated in my above response to you, it's because I don't want to debate anymore, especially not here. I've already conceded OBHWF, though I believe JKR sacrificed her characters to do it.

[runeharmonic]

Yeah, it's really just stinging how an author we used to give so much credit (I mean, just look at all those well thought-out essays!) could be so cruel to us.

I can easily buy that Hr/R is canon now in the books. With the way JKR destroyed her characters, they're not the same ones I fell in love with and thus hold no emotional impact for me anymore. For the first time, I can actually say the entire Trio can die in book 7, and I wouldn't care.

The ideals of the ship shouldn't be abandoned, not by a long shot. It JKR who doesn't deserve this attention.