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And in response to an earlier poster .. Us Pumpkin Shippers (H/HR) knew this was coming. After all it was us that JKR called delusional after book 6 if we thought she'd ever pair Harry and Hermione. <G>
Hey, no offence meant to ALL H/Hr shippers! blush Just to those few who are going to plague the Fictionally forums with flames very soon. Knowing something is coming doesn't mean that people like it any better when it does.

Actually, although I am partial to some ships, the HP ship wars over the years have left me rather wary of ALL hardcore shippers. I remember the brou-ha-ha in the forums after HPB. I had to stop reading them altogether. Hey, flame a book all you want if you didn't like it, just don't flame it for the ships.

Btw, Jo never called the Harmonies delusional, it was Emerson Spartz who did. Although the "anvil-sized hints" crack of hers was a bit thoughtless.

Anelli and Spartz also dissed the Snape redeemers the same way, during the interview. Although Anelli did refer to "Snape's strong pattern of redemption" that seemed to tickle Jo vastly. But Emerson was quite sure the Snape-redeemers were all "desperate-hopers". Haha! NOW who will have to hide his head in the sand, Spartz?

But you know what REALLY freaked me out? In a really good way? Well, I started reading HP when I was 13 and the first fanfic I ever came up with featured Ron and Hermione's daughter Rose and Draco's son, Dexter. Harry and Ginny had three children in it, James, Sirius and Lily (who was the same age as Rose). Ron and Hermione had had one other son, Chris, who died. Draco had never truly been 'redeemed', but had turned double agent for the Light side during another war (that had come ten years after Voldie's fall), in exchange for the promise that Harry wuld keep his wife Maria (a sweet Italian woman of a prominent pureblood family) and son Dexter, safe.

However, a mistake on Draco's part results in Maria's death, despite Harry's best efforts. Still he blames Harry for her death and once the war is over, takes Dexter out of Harry's care and leaves the country. Dexter, who is five or six at the time, deeply resents this move, as he is forced to leave the only family he had ever known by a father he barely remembered.

Draco marries again while abroad, to please his parents, and has a son and daughter with his new wife. This further alienates Dexter, although he is Draco's favourite child. Dexter has never fully accepted Draco as his father. Later on, they come back to Britain, when Dex is 12. He, Rose and Lily all start Hogwarts together. He and Lily are sorted into Slytherin, while Rose is sorted into Gryffindor, although this does not impede their friendship.

He and Rose are often at loggerheads with each other, often because of Ron's enmity toward anyone with the name Malfoy, which influences Rose and aggravates Dexter, who does not want to BE a Malfoy. He is closest to Lily, remembering her from their childhood days. However, Lily cannot see him as another brother, she falls in love with him just as surely as Rose and Dexter fall for each other.

Well, things get a little sticky fromt hen onward, especially once the adults get dragged into it. Cheesy, I know, but then, what is fanfic for?

Anyway, let's just say I was whooping at the epilogue. laugh

“Is he dead, Lois?”

“No! But I was really mad and I wanted to kick him between the legs and pull his nose off and put out his eyes with a freshly sharpened pencil and disembowel him with a dull letter opener and strangle him with his own intestines but I stopped myself just in time!”
- Further Down The Road by Terry Leatherwood.