MOD NOTE: I've borrowed the term "GPPM" (Geeky Pumpkin Pie Moments) from Fiction Alley Park H/H shipping threads.

Related Topic: Geeky Harry Potter Moments - non-shippy.

-gal-texter, 2009


I was in B.C. Victoria yesterday and went to the Royal Museum. There was a Tibet Exhibit in there, so we (me and my family) went inside. I was going through the symbological paintings in one of the corner and started reading about what meant what...

Suddenly, I came upon the last painting, the caption shocked me and I inmediately thought of Harry and Hermione and a certain quote that bothered us all. I couldn't take pictures of it, but it said something like...

"it's the union between psyche(female) and the artsy(male) (or something like that) to overcome the delusion" (or something along those lines... crap, i shoulda wrote it down! I can't remember)

Anyway, I was just wondering if that had ever happened to any of you...

My most recent H/Hr moment was extremely random, and the connection wasn't very great, but...

It was in my last rehearsal this summer with the East Sussex Youth Orchestra, before our concert in Hastings, about 2 weeks after HBP was released. At that time I was busy rocketing around the online H/Hr fandom, trying to hold on to my sanity, so HP was much on my mind. And during one of the boring long rests, I looked up, and there was a stage light above me that said 'Harmony 300'. Thus, I instantly thought of Her Majesty's Ship Harmony.

Told you it was random and weird.

Oh, and I always think of Harry and Hermione when I hear a beautiful tune - I'm a sucker for romantic 'classical' music.
A couple of my favourites are:
Overture Romeo and Juliet - Tchaikovsky
Love theme from Cinema Paradiso - Ennio Morricone
A Window to the Past - John Williams (HP soundtrack, it's depressing though)
2nd Movt of Max Bruch's Violin Concerto
Intermezzo from Carmina Burana - Pietro Mascagni (this is exquisite)

and sort of:
Adagio for Strings - Samuel Barber (this was just while HBP was depressing me - I was considering making a Flash memorial to pre-HBP-Hermione on the net for a while, with that in the background)

I'm rambling.

I know this may sound dumb, but I saw a cute stautue of two kittens in the Sunday newspaper in Parade Magazine. It was a black and white male kitten with what looked like its arms around a golden haired female kitten. It looked like the male was protecting the female and they both had smiles. As soon as I saw it I thought of Harry and Hermione as Harry would be protecting Hermione.

I have one of those bracelets (you know, the yellow ones that are used to promote a cure for cancer) except it's one of the knock-offs, and on it it says "harmony and balance". I only realized it the other day, and it immediatly reminded me of h/hr!

And zemog3782, I loved your kitten story!

It's the rainy season here in the Philippines, so the downpours are totally random and heavy. I had just finished reading HBP and was disappointed. But this little incident lightened up my mood, and I'll go along and share it.

I was in the grocery with my mom that day. HBP was running through my head, and it made my day even worse accompanied with the rain. It took us over an hour to finish, since the grocery was crowded as hell.

Anyhoo, we went outside after and ran to our car under our umbrellas. Our car was under the shade, so we didn't really get worried about getting even more wet than we already were. Unfortunately my mom misplaced the car keys and was fumbling around her bag and pocket looking for it. While waiting I was looking around, and there I saw it, or should I saw THEM.

There was this messy-haired guy with glasses holding an umbrella over the head of a bushy-haired girl. Though both their heads were black, as most Filipinos, the girl's hair had brown highlight here and there. The guy was holding the girl close as they crossed the street, hand-in-hand and were all clingy. I continued to watch them, amazed at the symbolism.

They were walking toward my mom and me. Apparantly they owned the car beside us. The guy then removed his glasses and said something along the lines "My glasses are wet." It was in Filipino of course, but I'll just transalte it for non-Filipinos. Then the girl said something like "Here let me clean it for you." And she brought out her hanky and started wiping the guy's glasses dry.

It's funny, since it reminded me so much of those times when Harry would get his glasses broken and Hermione would repair them for him. And there was also that time when Harry had to play Quidditch (forgot how you spell it ) in the rain and Hermione cast that spell to repel the water or something.

Nothing really happened after that except when the guy kissed the girl's cheek . I tried to listen in on their conversation (sorry I'm an eavesdropper... but this case was different!), but I couldn't make out their phrases. I did hear something about break-up and wrong stuff. I happen to hear the phrase "I only liked her before coz she was pretty." Remind you of anything?

It did brighten up my day.

Oh yeah, there was a more random moment during our History class. We were talking about what would make up a PERFECT world that day. We (my classmates and I) started saying stuff like organized governments, good human resources, etc. After my teacher said "Yes we need all of those, but you must remember that without HARMONY amongst everyone and everything, all your suggestions would downright collapse." Haha... just sharing.

*deep breath*

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh. Sweeeet. That scene has so many links with H/Hr, it's amazing. So I'll take the opportunity to use the smiley I made for use after HBP - haven't had any reason to use it before now.

I have the strangest links to H/Hr.

Yesterday, I was surfing the net and I saw this add. Then, I just smiled. It says "Do Soulmates Really Exist?" And then says "Find yours at Harmony" . I cracked up. I swear. My Mum saw me smiling and laughing and squeeing in front of the computer and thought I was crazy.
LOL

i was listening to "Here with me" by DIDO, it used to be the theme song in the series "ROSWELL" by WB, the lead characters in that series Max and Liz where so cute together (just like Harry and Hermione) ...anyways when i was listening to the song i could easily imagine Harry and Hermione and i wasn't even thinking about HP at that time

*deep breath*

The Secret Garden
Trixie Belden (book series)
Nancy Drew (book series)

There was another thread like this actually...

The other day I was watching TV, and I saw a commercial for the new Chevy HHR... I swear, I cracked up at the name... I was giggling like mad... It was great though... made me smile for a while and think about our ship...

well it's not a really sweet one like all yours but my dad has this thing for calling my sister Pumpkin - so when she came home from school he said hi pumpkin and just randomly i blurted out PIE they looked at me as if i was crazy lol! They don't follow HP.

Yeah, I saw an ad for the HHR in the paper and I emailed my sister (also a Harmonian) about it because it amused me so much....

I also keep noticing the word "delusions" and all variants thereof, and the word "anvil", popping up everywhere now!! It's probably just because I didn't really notice before, but still...it always makes me think of my ship...

**Pumpkin pie love from Dora the Delusional**

I was reserching not to far back and i remember finding a site i think i was along the lines of mythicalrealm.com and i was board so i just browsed through the site( i was supposed to be reserching but i have a short tention span ) I came across hippogryph and i was reading, just reading and then there it was in the blue...Hippogryph symblozes impossiblilties and, or love. now you can intepret this in two ways

1) Hermione went through the impossible with Harry thus creating love..

Or

2) Harry and Hermiones love is impossible( though that isnt true nor will it ever be in my oppinion)

Gasps GOD is sending us a sign YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!! thats brilliant

hey ya know what i said about the hippogryph? well i was refering to buckbeak

Well I work at a supermarket as a check out chick. So I scan a lot of things. Anyway, there's this brand of birdseed called "Harmony". And has anyone seen the HP Sauce? It's not actually Harry Potter, but that's what it's called and on the label in the background is a landmark in London. Anyway, a customer came through, and that's all she brought - the Harmony seed and the HP Sauce. A big grin just made it's way onto my face and I was like "hehehehe"

That's sweet and that is how I picture the relationship between our characters that support our ship that is the HMS Harmony!

Azalea -

awww.... that is most "ironic" and amazing thing I ever heard...that is scary and beautiful.

Well I don't know any think or anyone that look like H/hr. But I went to bookstore today and I saw one of those "romance novel's cover there is like "Man, with bare-chested/looking very powerful/handsome with Dark hair and "Green eyes" with a Woman who is has "long bushy-brown-hair" she was holding his chest. I know it should "cheesy" but I thought theyremind me of H/hr..and D/E.

the night after i finished reading HBP i couldn't sleep... i was really upset... i tried thinking of ways why J.K. wrote her book like that.. i even cried myself to sleep, but woke up an hour later and couldn't sleep again...

so doing what i usually do i reached under my bed and pulled out my notebook... as I was flipping through my story note book one name jumped out at me "Harmony". I traced the story back to when i was obessed with pokémon, and before i became a serious harmioan... and then from my window, which was open, i could hear my drunk neighbor (who loves to throw parties in the middle of the night, which usually wakes his dog up and that sets his dog off) sinigng "Bittersweet Symphony" Only he was singing it wrong... he instead was singing "Bittersweet Harmony"... Weird?

Neighbor: 'Cause its a bbbbbbbittter-(hiccup)bittter-(dog howls) sweet haremie, harmony yeahhhhhhh!

oh no he's at it again....


have you guys ever seen some werid message pop up and never seen it again? that happened to me once... i think i was playing my GBA a few weeks ago (yes as a girl i have no problem admitting i have a GBA) when something appeared like "Harmony recovered using a such-and-such berry, love tie-gung "(tie-gung is Chinese for great grandpa)... strangly i don't have a pokémon called harmony, and i wasn't in a battle either... DO YOU THINK THIS IS A MESSAGE FROM MY GREAT GRANDPA?

Wow, everyone has had their own experiences! It's all so interesting to read. I have another one! Unlike my "rainy day incident" (if you've read this whole thread it's there ), this isn't as serious.

It was lunch time at school, so my friends and I were eating in a table. I have a friend who wears glasses and she reminds me of Harry even though she's a girl. Likewise, I have another friend who was wearing her hair all curly and bushy because we had a presentation just before lunch.

So anyway, we were eating right? My friend with glasses brought out her lunch from her lunchbox and begun to eat it. Guess what it was?! PUMPKIN PIE!

I was surprised, since I always did remember Harry when I see her. I asked if she liked Pumpkin Pie, and she said she loved it! What's more, my friend who was wearing her hair all bushy today was saying she loved Pumpkin Pie too! And so they began to chatter the "deliciousness" of Pumpkin Pie, and I couldn't help but laugh.

Oh yeah, my friends are NOT LESBIANS okay? Haha, just to clear that up.



About the GBA thing... that's one of the most confusing stories I've read in this thread. Could it be true? Hope it is!

Oh god! I was just lurking on the net...strangly reading something about Virgos (Hermione's sign...I was looking about her actually ) and here there is a strange ad that says "Do soulmates really exist? They do find yours at Harmony! and I was like wow... amazing...

I just wanted to share the moment!

Yay! I have a good story! sort of. It's good for me.

I was in Spanish class and we were reading this book caleed "La Casa en Mango Street" (which is really weird), and there's this one part where the main character is describing her family members' hair, and she goes into this long description about here mom's and says that it smell's like bread after it's just been baked and it makes her feel safe and secure. We were discussing smells and how they trigger thoughts and feelings and can make people happy and sad and stuff. Then I started thinking about Harry smelled a flowery smell and fell in love with Ginny and I got all grumpy. My teacher said something like, "Scientists did a study and found that there is one smell that appeals to guys the most. do you know what it is?" my first thought was, "let me guess. a flowery smell?" Then she said, "It's pumpkin pie!" I was so happy. I wanted to cry. The complete opposite of what I expected.Then later she said that if someone or something is described in detail, it usually means that person or thing is important, and the first thing that came to my mind was the Yule Ball where Harry devotes an entire paragraph to Hermione.

i i saw that in the yahoo. i was shocked really. maybe the stockholders of chevy are all harmionians!!!!! LOL

ack! i just saw the latest issue of M magazine with the "lost Harry Potter" chapter inside! and guess waht couple they support! Harry and Hermione! you should go see it! i would scan it and show you guys but i don';t have a scanner

Cool!!! We would all like to see that scan

Can you take a picture of it??

Amy

Sorry, for the double post, but I just woke up and was browsing my regular websites.... and I visited Yahoo to check my email, when I see the Buzz Log - What The World Is Searching For , and I see this picture of a pumpkin that says.... "Precious Pumpkin" and then the paragraph started with "It's never too early to..."

that just made me grin like an idiot... lucky I was in my room. And well, here I am sharing with everyone... Have a good day!!

Amy

I had a Pumpkin Pie Blizzard at Dairy Queen yesterday.....Oh, it was delicious.

And the symbolic thing about it is my friend, who is an R/Hr shipper, said she tried it one time and it was really disgusting, but I decided to try it anyway and I loved it.

All these stories are great, i have one of my own. I was at the Falls ( popular hangout here in MIA) and i was with my boyfriend. We had just come out of the theater when these two families were walking in with 3 little children. and there was a little girl who had bushy brown hair and there were two little boys and one had black hair with glasses and the other had brown hair. When the boy with brown hair tried to hold the little girls hand the one with glasses shoved him and hugged her and said: "NO! Mine!" I was like AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
and my boyfriend looked at me and said: "Not for awhile". He was implying that i wanted children....Men can be soo oblivious sometimes. But i thought it was soo cute! Like a little Harry and Hermione.

Awwwwwwww!!!!! That is so adorable!

I just remembered something I saw the other day. I was at Claire's and i saw this key chain with a picture of a boat on it, and it said, "There are good ships and there are bad ships, but the best ships are friendships." And it made me want to cry because it kind of meant to me that even if Harry and Hermione will never fall in love, our ships will still be the best because they are the best of friends. There was this other key chain that reminded me of the H/G outlook on things. It said something like, "Who needs love? I'd rather fall in chocolate." And it got me thinking that Harry and Ginny aren't in love, they just like each other, and H/G shippers don't like them together because they are an example of true love, but only because they are "sweet" together.

Haha, well this was a while back.

But I was looking for a SAT prep book at Barnes and Noble two weeks ago and since I wasnt really quite ready to go home and study( ) I decided to just go through the Harry Potter section. Well, I'm not sure if someone had done this on purpose, but a planner had been left on top of an HBP book and right on the cover was a meadow and in big letters "Natural Harmony".

I sure hope it was on purpose.

Today in my Language Arts class I had a vocabulary word which happened to be Harmonious and my teacher said that it would be a good description of 2 people living without disturbing each other & living kindly Like a marriage I was imagining Harry and Hermione getting married

hi
okay this happened during my project presentation , there were about five groups presenting on different topics. I was chosen to give an opinion on other groups work in the range of 1 to 10.In one of the groups there was a guy called hriday but we call him HARRY.
so it comes this way,he does his presentatation in great way and in the end he concludes "all i want is peace and HARMONY for the world. It really makes me happy".I just cracked up , kept on smiling and gave him a really good remark.
this line really made me happy , i kept on smiling throughout the day as it reminded me h/hr
luv
anu

There's one song that always reminds me of H/Hr (along with other things)... My Best Friend, by Weezer, seems to put their love into words best... There's at least one more song, but I can't think of it right now...

- Shady

Hey Shady, would you be able to tell me the words to that song. I don't think I've heard it before.

Some of these "reminders" are really great. The one about the guy and his dog had me cracking up!! I remember I was looking up lyrics to Christmas songs the other day (cause sometimes I just get in the mood to sing them) and I looked up "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree." There's a line in the song that says, "Later we'll have some pumpkin pie and we'll do some caroling."

It made me smile, and I was imagining a scene in the next book where this time it's Harry and Hermione under the Mistletoe!

LOL, that's funny about pumpkin pie being the most attractive smell to guys...it almost doesn't sound like a coincidence!

Here's a link to the song lyrics:
My Best Friend

I love this song. If you want to listen to it, I could it email it to you.

~Anily

This is really random but I was in Barnes & Noble the other day ( my favorite store on the frickin planet ) and I was looking at the calendars. There was this one about wolves and on the cover there's a male wolf that's looking straight into the camera and a female that's got it's chin tucked underneath his. The male wolf is looking like "You even think about touching her and I'll rip your throat out." It's teeth aren't bared, it's all in the eyes and the female looks comepletely at ease as if she knows she's safe with him.

Perhaps I thought too much, but wolves are very emotional creatures. It just reminded me of the deep bond that Harry and Hermione have and their complete trust in one another. :Sigh:

[ Ha ha! I was in Barnes and Noble again today and it turns out the "calendar" was really a book about wolves...silly me! ]

That's interesting about the hippogriff. We know how much JKR did in research before writing the HP series. She knows about the Hippogriff and it's symbolism. I looked at the mythicalrealm.com site, harryhermionesdaughter. It describes the Hippogriff as something impossible AND love. A griffon and horse are mortal enemies so their progeny (hippogriffs) are considered an impossible thing to exist - the love between them seems impossible but does happen. It states the old medieval axoim that is similar to our expression 'when pigs can fly'.

So in response to some shippers out there who say H/Hr will only happen 'when pigs can fly', and knowing JKR's penchant for purposely including these symbols in her work, it's interesting that Harry and Hermione are on the quest to save Buckbeak (the impossible to exist hippogriff) and later ride him in PoA. Could JKR be saying something about Harry and Hermione's relationship here? The love that some say is impossible, but it does exist?

Way to go on that little gem, harryhermionesdaughter!

Ok, this is funny. Today, I went to have lunch with my parents at a place near our house. As dessert, they had pumpkin pie with chocolate over it. I couldn't help but smile, because a thoguht popped in my head.

Chocolate=H/G

Pumpkin pie=H/Hr

So if there was a little superficial stratus of chocolate on a ratehr thick pumpkin pie, this is my theory. Maybe H/G is only superficial, as a crush should be, and H/Hr is in the depths, like true love usually is, but in the end it comes out overwhellimg the crush...

Another. Few days later I was eating grilled pumpkin, and could help to think about H/Hr.

The other day i saw an advert for a new kind of perfume in a magazine. The perfume was called Harmony I instantly thought of Harry and Hermione and sat there with a silly grin on my face for ages.

I remember when I was about 7, in second grade, I had a best friend - a blond haired kid named Donnie. We had a mutual friend, a very pretty girl named Christy who I had a crush on. The three of us used to hang out alot, play on the playground together, etc. We would play Star Wars together - that was around the time the very first movie came out and everyone was into it. I would always be Han, Donnie was Luke and Christy was Leia.

I remember Christy giving me a note one time wherein she told me she loved me. I was on cloud nine until I found out that she had given a similar note to Donnie. I never saw her as being deceitful, I just thought she was truly in love with both of us. Of course, later I found out that Donnie was a real crumb. I would gladly lend him my star wars figures to play with and he would invariably not give them back, with some lame excuse as to how they got lost.

I thought about how similar the dynamic between that and H/Hr was.

I had my annual Winter dinner at my residential building and they had it all glammed up for the occasion. I went to get dessert and it turns out they had Pumpkin Pie Cheesecake.
Now I'm a big fan of cheesecake, it's soo sweet and creamy...well needless to say, I got a huge slice and said a silent prayer for "Harry and Hermione."


It seems that I've been attacked by 'Pumpkin Pie'-ness this entire fall semester at school. I see it as a good sign...

And what about movies??
When I saw National Treasure in the cinema i was completely immersed in the story but then when abigail chase joins in the and the real adventure starts kicking, I couldn't hel0p but think - wow this is like seeing h/hr.

She's a bit obessed with the rules at first but then she breaks them when she thinks its for the best, and the way she always wants to learn something new and the way she trusts Ben so completely and can't help but look foward to that almost reckless adventure that he offers her.... its so H/hr!!!

I saw the commercial for the new Chevy HHR and I screamed! I was wondering if it had anything to do with our ship...

Miss Mady

MOD NOTE: merging this with a related thread ~Pen/gal-texter Jun 2008

sometimes things in my life happen and they make me smile because it reminds me of H/Hr. has anything like that ever happend to you?
this is one thing that happend to me recently: my mom was droping me off from school (my mom calls me all those little names, princess, angel, stuff like that) and she said, "Have a good day pumkin pie"
my mom never called me pumkin pie before, and my first thought was H/Hr.
(ok that was a bad example but it was the most recent one i can remember) well has anything in your life ever happend to you that made you think of H/Hr?

I remembered hearing the words 'pumpkin pie' and automatically thinking, "H/Hr!" In fact, I remember squeeing. But anyway, here is my little moment (it really is little, like a tic tac, almost):

I was being dropped off at the mall and there's usually a display of cars near the mall parking lot. That day, I remember seeing a bunch of orange cars with the letters 'HHr' inscripted on it. I squeed (my automatic reaction to anything H/Hr) and my dad thought I was crazy. But literally, there were a whole bunch of those cars. (Go Chevrolet!)

Not really a huge H/Hr moment but it made me think of H/Hr.

I was eating with my family at Shoneys (a family type of restaurant in the states) and since it is the fall season they are now serving this Pumpkin pie.

Anyway, after our dinner our waitress came over to see what we wanted for desert and she said You will fall in love with pumpkin pie. LOL I don't know why but the way she said it made me think of Harry/Hermione so of course I got the giggles and my family just smiled and shook their heads at me because they all KNEW what I was thinking LOL. Which of course made me giggle harder. hee hee hee I'm so obsessed. Maybe I need therapy?

I still can't help the thought that that waitress is a H/Hr shipper. I almost asked her but then decided not to lol but she seemed so dang happy about that pumpkin pie! lol

I saw someone wearing a shirt saying "Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye, four and twenty herons baked in a pumpkin pie" when I was out in town around HBP's release time.

I ###### you not, I nearly sprayed my pint all over the table.

I LOVE IT.

That's a Tshirt I need to buy.

This is another thread I did a year ago about the same thing... u can check some other moments~

Here

Maybe a mod can make both into one?

Amy

Yeah. - gal-texter, 2008

Since I've got ridiculously easy access to t-shirt printing facilities (just a trip upstairs, actually), I might do a few designs like that one for OotP and Book 7 release days