I know its just awful to ask people's ages, but I am curious. I admit to being an (ahem) older HP fan, and therefore I would imagine one of the older H/Hr fans as well. How old are my fellow shipmates? If I get a few replies I will either post my own age or run off with my old head hung in shame!


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The good ship Pumpkin Pie welcomes all.. So don't be ashamed!
Unless you're satan (). But then again, I think we'd have bigger problems to deal with..

I don't mind telling you how old I am though. Might be a teenage thing.. I don't think were supposed to be embarassed, I don't know.
But I'm 15. Thank heavens, not the youngest one here.. I might be pretty close though..

P.s. You might want to hide that birthdate of yours in your profile if you really don't want us to find out.. Not that anyone cares though so don't worry.

Edit: Indeed! Gotta have my potter. Ironically, I've never had Corn Pops in my entire life.
Happy early birthday then!

LOL, I forgot I put that in there! Ah well. Yes, I will be 30 a week from tomorrow. Yes, I am ancient.

Part of Rowling's magic is that her work can be enjoyed by all ages.

Thanks for the welcome.

That is part of the magic, isn't it? Fun for all ages. It's something that all generations can enjoy and share interests with. Oh yeah...I just turned 16 in May! I also tend to notice that many H/Hr seem to be older than some other shippers.

I have no problem sharing! I turned 23 last March.

I think the Harry Potter stories are completely ageless. Anyone can enjoy them! I know kids who love them and now I've got my grandmother reading them (and she's in her 70's).

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I think the Harry Potter stories are completely ageless. Anyone can enjoy them! I know kids who love them and now I've got my grandmother reading them (and she's in her 70's).

YES!

Not that I'm that old.

I'll admit to turning 44 ... and I started reading the books just two years ago ...

So, no need to worry about your age.

gil

I was on a plane the other day, and half the people reading HP (and there were many) were over the age of 30. Bring it on! More mature arguments.. who can resist?

I just turned 20 in April! Woo hoo! No more teenager for me!

you all suck-eth man! I'm like... 13.... Naw, I don't mind being one of the younger peeps here, and even if most times people of diff ages disagree at times I have to admit that Harry Potter is one of the best things to start conversations with, with anyone of any age.
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Potter is the swiftest one,
Just a while and the game is done,
He has the snitch the game is won!
Potter is our king!

Granger is the one with brains
Can heal the wounds and all the pains,
She has The Boy that's why we say'n'
Granger is our Queen!

The two have met and hit it off,
it took 7 years but nows enough,
the couple gave us all a run,
and had people say it'll ne'er be done,
but that's why we're all singin' high,
Nothing better than pumpkin pie!!!!!~Pyro Glitch

QUOTE (Blinkus @ Jul 7 2003, 11:05 PM)

The good ship Pumpkin Pie welcomes all.. So don't be ashamed!  Unless you're satan (). But then again, I think we'd have bigger problems to deal with..

If I may be so bold as to point this out:

Blinkus
Chief Pumpkin Pie Snarfer
Posts: 33
Member No.: 666

YIKES!!!!

26 here, btw. And corn pops rule.

GO TEENS!! oldies to... hehe

Im 17 by the way...

WOW... Now my brother cant tell me to stop reading children books and get a real one...

HP rules

i just turned 14 in May seems that the ages here are very varied....which is a REALLY good thing

Turned Seventeen about ... hmm ... nearly two weeks ago.

HAPPY EARLY TC!

oh ... just realized my party emoticon is a wizard

Anywho, I'm feeling kina old too. Going to university in September ... little kids staring wide-eyed at me when I tell them my age ... parents muttering about how I should act my age now ... ::grin::

Ah well I'll never be too old for Harry Potter ... right? ... Right?!

- J

I'm gonna turn 21 this October. Yeah, I was under the impression before that most pumkin pie shippers are older but it turns out we pretty much have all the age range possible.

Oh, that was a pretty cool poem PyroGlitch! I love it!

nope!! there is no such thing as one being ever too old for Harry Potter!!

I guess I fall in the middle of the PP pack, I am only 20.

16 in September! 1 Month, 3 Weeks, 4 days left until I get my liscense! (My birthday falls on Labor Day, so the DMV is closed! It royally BITES! ARGGGGGG!)

I'm not the baby of the group for once! Yay!

AML
~*kt*~

I'm 17, 18 in November. And _J_, I agree with you, I went over to my little cousin's house to help out with a birthday party and when I was done I sat down with GOF. They crowded around and asked me how old I was and I told them and they're all, "Woah, you're old! Why are you reading that?!". I told them to go play.

hello... I think I'm the youngest here so far... (although I've always felt older than kids my age)
I'm turning 14 just a few weeks from today; July 31st! Yeah I know, HP's birthday. That's like, the thing I'm MOST proud of all
I have noticed too that most of the older HP fans are H/Hr shippers. My explanation is that adults read the books more throughly (sp?) and are able to relate them to more personal experiences. That's why they tend to go for the UNEXPECTED and not the obvious. Also I believe that one of the reasons there are so many R/Hr shippers is that there is a lot of people that don't read the books throughly and that don't go "deeper than the surface". Most of them are teenagers like myself or kids, that take the facts of the books and don't bother themselves with developed theories, just wait for more facts to come. These are the kinds of minds that follow the OBVIOUS path, "cause--->consecuence" and such.
Hey, now that I've rambled long enough, I really have to go. Hope I didn't bore you to death.
With love,
The most sincerely obsessed H/Hr shipper in the world

I can totally relate to that: When I bought OotP on opening day, I had both my kids yelling at me to finish so THEY could read it Good thing I am a fast reader, I had it finished in one marathon session.

Great to see the age ranges of we H/Hr obsessed people!

Dreamcatcher, I agree with you quite a bit. I think we ancient H/Hr Shippers look at Harry and Hermione with a tad more life experience and can see just how compatible they are, especially compared to R/Hr (who I find dreadfully incompatible.) Could just be the pumpkin pie obsession talking though

Hehehe I know what you mean... Sometimes I get so carried away with my ship... Anyways, that's the only explanation I've gotten so far. Glad you agree...
PS: I'm also SO proud to be a H/HR shipper...

Allright I also am one of the 'ancients' - I'm 32 BTW! And yes, as you've seen, I sometimes act less than 1/3rd my age and I'm proud of it - hehehe!

I don't mind revealing my age. I'm 33. I love the HP universe and the H/H ship!

Yey! I'm not the oldest one here
*runs around hugging all those older then self*
My neighbour's always telling me I must be the oldest HP fan around, but I'm not Oh, I guess I should mention that I turned 20 in May.

-Angel1731

man, in that case i must be one of the youngest readers here.

I'm sixteen going on seventeen (uh oh now I have to watch the movie, the song is in my head!) in December!! although i'm still relatively new to the Harry Potterverse, H/Hr is the way for me! All aboard the HMS Pumpkin Pie!pnkrkprincess91, I know just how you feel, my retrieval of my liscense was delayed and I really wanna drive my car!!

I'm turning 17 in August... And don't be ashamed of your ages, dearies! I have a couple of really good H/Hr compadres that are twice my age [Well, kinda ^.^]

Awww, come on all you 'Anicients' as you call yourselfs. You make it like you can't walk anymore but you can carry around a 870 page book:blink:. But I'm sooooo glad we can all agree how cool HP is, and that the majority of us can see Harry and Hermione's attraction to one another. Most adults I know are always fussy about the books and obssesion on things from the book, but since the movies, they're acting like Arthur Weasly in a muggle store trying to ask Harry about a TV. It's soooooooo embarressing and slightly amusing, compared to all you adults who can tell the difference between a mudblood and a squib. So you all rock.... and roll.... All day long!
__________________________________________________________________
Potter is the swiftest one,
Just a while and the game is done,
He has the snitch the game is won!
Potter is our king!

Granger is the one with brains
Can heal the wounds and all the pains,
She has The Boy that's why we say'n'
Granger is our Queen!

The two have met and hit it off,
it took 7 years but nows enough,
the couple gave us all a run,
and had people say it'll ne'er be done,
but that's why we're all singin' high,
Nothing better than pumpkin pie!~ Pyro Glitch

One thing that I love about the older HP fans is, they prove to every arrogant people in the world that JKR's series isn't just for the kiddies I hate it when they ask me "What's your favorite book?" and I say "Harry Potter, what else?" They'll say "Really? Isn't that for kids? Isn't it boring?"
:mad:

feh, they stand corrected. It's neither boring, nor for kids

i'm 17 yrs old. Hey age doesn't matter my neighbours, their got two teenage daughters around my age and the whole family has read the book! All of them!

i reckon heaps of people of all ages read HP, just some don't admit it.

I'm 14, 15 in November. But I've been obsessed for years, so I'm not all that surprised to see people that are younger than me.

I think I am the youngest person here! Yay! The baby of the ship!

I am at the ripe, young age of 13. (Here's a tidbit: I am 15 days older than Emma Watson!) I love being the youngest. I'm the oldest in my family, and out of all my cousins, I'm the oldest. Whooo hooo. But, I have been shipping H/Hr since like book 1, without knowing it of course. So I was like 10 or something. How's that for a H/Hr shipper?!?

--britt

i guess i'm not.. i'm 15.

What I think is....doesn`t matter how young or old we are, we are already very, very, mature and wise for our age if we ship H/HR!

how very true... see, the ron/hr shippers, they can be 40 and not be mature, because they're not on the right ship!

Im 22, my bday is on decmber 18. T hink its not the age that really matters here but the mind that works. You may be 50 but your minds thinks like a teenager or a 15 but whose mind works like 30, doenst matter at all, does it??

Well I guess I can tell you guys I just turned 28 yesterday . So you not alone anymore

Well, I just turned 15 last May... but I've been shipping since I was 13... and subconsiously so since I was 11 or 10... I'm really quite alone in my level of shippiness in RL...

-Kaori

Young at age, young at heart and will forever be a potternut. I'm 20 going on 10. LoL.

I just turned 15 last month. I still don't feel like it yet... I keep telling people 14 unless I think about it.

I noticed I'm not the youngest... this is good. I'm usually the youngest in everything.

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I'm really quite alone in my level of shippiness in RL...

I'm the only one of my friends that ships H/Hr. It's so lonely... but at least I'm right. Heh...

Me?.....just turned 16 in May....

But thats what I love about this fandom....and about the H.M.S. Pumpkin Pie in particular....all shippers are welcome....in all various shapes and sizes....from all the parts of our diverse and kick @$$ world....and apparently in all different age groups too!

Luv ya's!



~Sam~

P.S.- PyroGlitch, I TOTALLY LOVE AND ADORE your little poem in your signature....its awesome!....very cute and creative!....kudos to you ....and pumpkin pie of course!

Kaori Lily Marie XIV -

Heck i used to think I was alone with D/G ( so many D/Hr *shudder* ) then I found this brilliant site full of ships that I support ( welll ... I kind of like Snape/Lily though... )

Only recently did I get into H/Hr And all Thanks to D. O Parker with her incredibly awesome fiction. But hey, I'm loving the R/LL now!

- J

Wow, I never knew we had such a good range of ages either. I'm 16 - kind of in the middle I guess.

it ageless..to be Hp fan. more of Daniel Radcliffe fan..though..but he is harry..so. sorry..for blahing..

i am 31. and Proud of it!!

from
Caroline...

i forgot... And..Proud of being Harry/hermione ship or Daniel/Emma fan...to end of ocean...forever!!

I turned 15 in january but I think it's cool that people of every age like h/hr

Ech! So many different ages! That goes to tell you how versatile The Harry Potter books are. Oh and I'm 20 turning 21.

purple_mud - I have to say, you're avatar/icon caught my eye. That's really pretty!! Is that Harry & Hermione / Danny & Emma? If so, is that a manipulation or a real picture? Sorry, but that avatar/icon just peaked my curiosity so suddenly. lol. But it's so pretty!!!

QUOTE (diam0ndgrrl @ Jul 8 2003, 03:39 AM)

I just turned 20 in April! Woo hoo! No more teenager for me!

I hit 21 in October

I'm at Uni here in England and loads of people here are Potter mad. Our University bookshop opened at 00:00 on 21 June and the queues were enormous... It's nice - especially as a friend of mine is a fanfic author (athena_arena over at fictionalley - tends to write R/H though, sadly)

Tisty xxx

I just turned 34 in April and have always been a proud H/Hr shipper.

I'll be 18...in December...going to college in September - WOO HOO!!! I CAN'T WAIT!!

I Pumpkin Pie and Mai Tais

~ Jacy