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Harry Potter Non-Canon Ships Comment Ficathon

THE RULES ARE THUS:

1. WHAT MAKES A NON-CANON SHIP? Anything that is not at least one-sided in the books. This means that Snape/Lily is canon, even if she may (or may not) have ever reciprocated. Bellatrix/Voldemort is canon. Lavendar/Ron is canon. Obviously everyone who's married and/or dates is canon. OBHWF is canon, Harry/Cho is canon. Ships that are not stated as fact in the books are not canon. That means UC ships are good, slash is good, femslash is good. For our purposes, we are not counting JKR's interviews as canon. That means that if you wanted to prompt, say, who knows, Hannah/Neville, you could, because it's not in the text itself.

2. You leave a comment with a pairing and a prompt. You respond to prompts that you like. Your prompt must pertain to a non-canon ship. You may specify a character within that ship if you want the fic written from that characters perspective. You may also specify a timeline if you'd like, or if you want it to take place in the movie!verse.

3. When writing fic, put in your title SHIP - TITLE OF FIC (rating optional). This will help us archive if we later archive things. I don't have time to archive anything right now, but if someone wants to volunteer, we can make that happen.

4. LEAVE FEEDBACK. Comments are the lifeblood of the internet.

5. NO WANK. I'll delete your ass. And we're dealing with ships and I am deletion happy, so watch yourself.

6. There will be spoilers for the movie all over this post, I am sure. You have been warned.

7. Promote this if you please. You can use this code:

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Have fun!

ETA:

effingeden has graciously offered to archive our prompts and fic here. Thanks so much!

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YES YES. I WOULD LIKE TO LIVE THERE AS WELL. Okay, I know JKR had to end it someplace and Deathly Hallows makes sense. But I am so interested in these people directly post-war and how they cope with all that and how THEY WILL NEVER BE WONDERFULLY HAPPY SENDING THEIR RIDICULOUSLY NAMED KIDS OFF TO HOGWARTS /have spent too much time thinking about the epilogue lately.

at the very least ginevra must because it turns three into four but the angles aren't equal, it's a parallelogram but not a rectangle, there are no even angles anymore.

This is the best visual representation of what dividing the trio into these two relationships does and how it doesn't work. How they are a triangle and now they aren't even a shape, but they are trying to be. How all the sides and lines are not equal and do not make a corner. And poor Ginevra, who I want to like, but cannot because she is not real, but who has so much potential (especially in fic) and how does she deal with this? With the fact that her husband will always love her brother/sister-in-law more than her? That she will never have their connection because they cut her off from it and she was never part of it and cannot be. It is too late and they've experience too much without her. She is not integral to him like they are.

Just, I would like to live in your brain.

honestly, the pre-epilogue DH was perfect. r/hr had their ending, it was contained, it was clear what her projections of the ships were, and there was no reason for that epilogue to exist. idgaf. i will hate that shit until the day i die. for numerous reasons, one of which clearly includes the treatment of my kids. done. without that epilogue this fandom would have been fine. with it, the fandom collapsed on itself. and i hate that. i don't care what canon says; i've been a doomed shipper in one way or another since age six. i don't care for that. i care about what fandom can give me. and there's barely a fandom left. hence: this ficathon exists.

RIGHT? I'M PRETTY PROUD OF THAT, NGL. sometimes my brain comes up with some fun stuff. but, ginevra. i am fascinated by ginevra. there is no happy story there. she clearly had no say in the naming of their children, harry will always pick ron and hermione over her, and sometimes i think that she and ron must have quiet weasley-born conversations about how harry and hermione's relationship functions. see this article (http://blog.moviefone.com/2010/11/23/harry-potter-hermione-ron-weasley-love/), i am so obsessed. articulates my feelings so well. have left a comment to that effect. but they are built of each other whether you want to call in platonic or not see this post from my tumblr yesterday (http://hopesichord.tumblr.com/post/1693990841/hermione-youll-be-okay-harry-youre-a-great). don't care. you can call them best friends and nothing more if you want, that's fine with me, but these two exist on a different plane than they do with everyone else that surrounds them. not necessarily a better or worse one, i suppose, but undeniably different. it's why i already read the kids in HP as older than they textually were. because they're different, and their relationship has always been different. none of the others had noticed a thing. i need say nothing else.

... this is my default fb picture rn (http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1143.snc4/148525_1521905011197_1341720297_31353406_3387673_n.jpg)

it's fine.

Edited 2010-11-27 19:38 (UTC)

I agree. Before the epilogue Deathly Hallows was doing just fine and being absolutely wonderful and I was in love. Still am in love. But that epilogue is out of place. It shits on Harry and Hermione and the connection and relationship they have. It shits on all the characters. They are more complex than they are shown to be there. They are better than that. Why does it exist? Why? Even as a snapshot of one particular moment in their lives it does not work because it presents itself as a summary of these people's lives post-war. Which, no. No no no. I hate it so much. Kills the fandom and disrespects the readers and the characters. No no no. DO not want.

IT IS PERFECT. YOU SHOULD BE PROUD. Ginevra does not have a happy existence, there is no way. And I can see she and Ron having those conversations so clearly because while the trio is my ship numero uno, Harry/Hermione is where I (heavily heavily) lean. That article explains why so well. It is perfect. Their love, whether you want to call it platonic or romantic or whatever, really is different (which is how I see the trio functioning as a unit, too). It is greater and more real and pure and important than anything else. They are wonderful. And my mother and I had a conversation and she just kept asking what Hermione sees in Ron. And I could respond with his humor and his heart, but it doesn't really compare to what she sees in Harry. It is not the same, thus the leaning, Because she and Harry just work on this different level, as you said. And it is so obvious and what are they but their own. They put hearts in my eyes. Need to reread the books, need to reread ootp.

haha omg. That is the greatest fb default I think I have ever seen. I am glad you regret nothing.

Forgive me for jumping on the comment!train, here, but a.) this conversation about the epilogue and Ginny post-DH is so interesting and RIGHT ON, and b.) I was just reading the comments on the Moviefone article (which I adore and I think is spot on) and there is a comment with my top pet peeve argument against H/Hr:

That they would be a boring couple.

I just. GOD. I totally get it if you ship R/Hr because it's a version of love that you believe (it's not the version of love that *I* believe in, but that's fine), but to argue that H/Hr would be boring is so unbelievably silly. Why are R/Hr a more interesting couple -- because they fight? Would H/Hr be boring because it would be filled with quiet moments of trust and love and discovery and compassion? I'm admittedly probably a few years older than many of the commenters, and I would hate to burst anyone's grand ideas of how love manifests itself after a few years of marriage, but true, deep love is pretty...quiet and calm. Because it doesn't need to be loud and interesting. Because real love just...is.

That turned into a rant and I'm totally interrupting your guys' conversation, so...sorry LOL. Those article comments just got me going.

lol no i love this comment.

Your rant is perfect. I read some of those comments and was seething and just need to. stop. breathe.

IKR? I will not argue with you if R/Hr is like your ultimate version of love. I disagree strongly, but I won't argue because that is personal and whatever. But when you start arguing that H/Hr is boring or INCEST (which has got to be the world's most ludicrous anti-shipping argument), I just cannot abide.

There are legitimate reasons for people to ship R/Hr and I understand why people do--hell, I sort of do. But whatever, ship whatever you want, whatever makes you happy. I don't care. But do not make weak, illogical arguments to make your blind rage towards H/Hr make sense. The incest argument is ridiculous. Like, sure, Harry and Hermione were...closer friends than Ron/Hermione, but it doesn't mean Ron/Hermione weren't part of the trio and friends themselves. They just had more loud arguments, so naturally, their relationship isn't incestuous but Harry/Hermione, who are also not at all related, are? I just. Why? How? Look at your life, look at your choices.

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