I think after the third book I was convinced that Hermione and Harry would be best friends forever and ever. And in the fourth movie, I realized that there was no chance in h*ll that R/Hr could ever become anything more then friends. Lets just say from the start of the book I knew that something even if it was minor something was going to happen between them. Some sort of attraction. I'm hoping I'm right, since I've always been know for my fair judgement.

Anyone elses experiences?

Mine happened because one of my friends was reading GOF, and I was just reading PS/SS, and I got a glipse of her book of the Rita Skeeter's articles, I think it was the first one, so I got the idea that they were going to get together, and started to love it. And it has been like that since...

I shiped R/Hr until the troll scene in the first book. O_o What? I caught on quick!

*cricket chirps*

No ones laughing?

Okay.......................

When Hermione first hugged Harry before he confronted Quirrel in SS. Ya know. her lip quivers and then she goes into her first of many bone-crushing embraces.

since then, I was a Pumpkineer.

I came to the fandom very late (2001), and read the books in the wrong order (CoS, SS, PoA, GoF). When I first read Goblet of Fire I thought "Huh, Ron and Hermione? Interesting." Then I got into fanfiction, and I re-read the books and pondered everything some more, and the more I thought about H/Hr, the more I liked it. And after OotP, I realized that H/Hr and R/Lu were the only way to go. I still think that, especially after the awesome R/Lu in Half-Blood Prince! WOOT for the Gurdyroot!

I had just gotten the POA, shortly after it had come out, only 7 years old at the time. It was the middle of the night, but I had snuck a book light into bed with me. I came to the chapter 'The Dementors Kiss' where Hermione is being protected by Harry in the chapter illistration. I had this weird, random, innocent seven year old thought--I had saw the picture, then read the word kiss, and completely jumped to the conclusion that Harry was going to kiss Hermione in the chapter I was about to read. Of course, it didn't happen, but from then on I always wanted to see Harry and Hermione together as a couple, and my love grew more from the subtle things in GoF (like the kiss on the cheek) and the ever holy fifth book, before coming into the world of fanfiction and realizing I was a true blue harmony shipper.

when i saw the first movie and then the first book

hmmm...let me think I believe after the hug in the 1st book I though that they might be a couple, but it wasn't until after I read POA in 2000 that definitely made me ship Harry and Hermoine .

~LionA02

I became a Harmonian two or three weeks after the first movie, when I read all four books. I don't know why I became one, it just felt...right.

For about five minutes, I supported Harry/Cho (don't kill me!), but it quickly fizzled away to the one true ship.

Strangely enough, the concept of Ron/Hermione never even crossed my mind at all until a couple of years ago when I actually immersed myself in the HP fan community.

Nice question! I love reading everyone's replies.

When GoF came out in '99 my mom decided to see what all the fuss was about and bought all the books at one time. I read them all in a little over two weeks and am slightly ashamed to admit that I shipped R/H and H/G at first. But then in PoA I didn't like the way Ron and Hermione argued over the Firebolt and over the course of a few days the R/H shipper in me died.

The exact moment I started shipping H/H was in GoF (I'm not sure how I got through PoA without shipping them) when Hermione meet Harry at the Gryffindor entrance with a stack of toast and invited him to walk around the lake. They've been my ultimate OTP ever since.

I caught part of GOF and for some reason the interaction between Harry and Hermione was intriguing to me. I then went and watched all the movies. I had heard other people say it it was supposed to be R/HR, but I just couldn't see it. I thought well H/HR seems to be canon in the movies more or less, but lets see if it's canon in the books. I read all the books and here I am.

Well, I read the introducton of Hermione on the train in PS/SS..I like her a lot and the way she knows too much of Harry made me think she quite suitable for Harry..the troll scene convinced me a lot that Harry wants to be friends with Hermione and that famous speech! I immediately became an H/Hr shipper when I read the hug! That's before I came to the fandom. I never bacame a R/Hr shipper...I'm more interested with Harry and Hermione.

Well when I read Goblet of fire for the first time I really liked the relationship that harry and hermione have. I didn't stumble across HP fandom and shipping until late 2004 which was about four years after I first read GOF. I have been hooked ever since!

I started shipping H/Hr when I was a weeee lassy of 10-years-old.

The first time I saw the SS movie, I became an instant H/Hr shipper. Then after the movie I went to buy GoF straight after and my H/Hr vibe grew even more.

And now, I'm proud to say I am a delusional H/Hr shipper to this day

A similar thing happened with me.
From Book 1-3, I didn't ship anything until Book 4 when I read Rita's article. (I mean other characters in the group could see the Harry and Hermione love!)

I didn't ship anything or didn't even think about romance until OOTP or even HBP ...

Let me explain ... I was just 8 years old when I read the first 4 books in 2000.

When I was reading OOTP, I didn't like Harry/Cho together but since it did't last long ... I didn't really pay that much attention to it.
But when I read HBP and came to the scene where Harry and Ginny kisses I was like "WHAT THE HELL !!!". From there I stared asking myself why didn't I like them together until after a few seconds I tought the only and truly person that will always understand Harry is Hermione. And voila, I became a proud Harry/Hermione fan !!

I've always like Harry and Hermione since the first book but not in a shippy way.. just thought they'll be good together. By the end of PoA, I thought they should get together but I was not that strong a shipper yet.

The moment I became a loyal Harmonian was the first movie.. partly because of Dan/Emma on screen chemistry. Nevertheless, I think they're perfect together and I'm proud to be 'delusional'.

Thanks to my cousin, I discovered the wonderful world of Harry Potter in the 2003's summer (quite late comparing to a lot of people). I read the PS, CoS and PoA without shipping anything but then I read GoF... and the Yule Ball when Harry describes Hermione in her blue dress was for me like "how could I not see it before ?!! How lovely they are ! The Rita Skeeter's articles convinced me more and at the very end the kiss from Hermione totally changed my view on the books. My faith in Harry and Hermione was definitely part of me

I shipped HHr from book one! In the beginning it was mostly like: 'Hey, wouldn't it be fun if they hooked up?'... but then with the hug scene in the end I realised it would be much more than that. It would be perfect.


In the first three books I wasn't expecting anything - I just enjoyed watching their friendship grow. And then from book four, and Ron's treachery, I was starting to see actual canon things that hinted a future relationship between Harry and Hermione.
But I also noticed the whole Ron-Hermione thing that everybody seemed so obsessed with. And I must admit I was disgusted at first. But now I've accepted it as something that has to happen before our ship can happen.
and our ship will happen l. it has to.

For me it happened in the first book. I sensed something between them in their very first scene together, kind of like, I knew that they would be friends. When the Troll at Halloween thing happened, I kind of wanted them together. By the hug at the end, I knew that I wanted them together. And that was it. I had this hope for them since the first book.

I dont know ever since I read the line harry your a great wizard, Books and Cleverness. There are more important things friendship and bravery and.... oh Harry be careful.

Right then I knew it was going to be them at the end no matter what happen no matter how many times people told me that I was wrong I knew that Harry and Hermione were bound to be together, Ron and Hermione never show me anything that I would think that they are meant for each other, I never saw anything that would make me go aww thats really nice of him

For years I just been waiting knowing one day that harry and hermione will get together.

Its werid its like when you know when it feels right you just cant explain your reason but you just know.

Wierd but I was influenced by the second movie. I was still a little young to be thinking about shipping in the books- but then I watched the big hug scene in CoS and something just clicked in me. From that point on I felt it would always be H/HR.

i really can't put a finger on it, but i think it was since i read the first book... i don't know, something about the interaction between those two made me think of a possible 'beyond friends' scenario... and then of course there were the movies which only strengthened the sort of gut feelings i had for the future of H/Hr

and don't even get me started on fanfiction...

off topic! can anyone point me to screencaps of the new 30second trailers? i can't get over the fact that H/Hr are sitting next to each other in potions class...

Well, the first I saw of H/Hr was the CoS movie. I knew next to nothing about HP, but I found myself smiling at H/Hr's scenes: them talking with a look, him holding her hand in the hospital, her hugging him at the end... I started reading the books and that was it for me. The thought of shipping R/Hr never once crossed my mind. Ever.

It's either Harmony or nothing at all.

Well I remember that when I first read the books (I read PS/SS, Cos, PoA and GoF in 2 months in 2001) I had no shipping opinion. Then while waiting for news about book 5 I started surfing the Internet fandom and discovered the common belief that R/Hr would get together, and it seemed confirmed by GoF (Yule Ball stuff). I did not like the idea. I read somewhere some fictious "predictions" and in one Harry and Hermione ended together, and I realized I liked this idea better. When OotP was released I was almost ready for R/Hr to happen and I was pleasantly surprised; it's in 2004 that I discovered online shipping and this site, and since then my conviction has grown, even if I have been temporarily discouraged by HBP. Now, even if H/Hr does not happen in DH (about which I try not to set my hopes too high) I'll still think that's the best HP ship.
Harmony all the way!!

I thought it would be H/Hr from the start when he saved her from the troll in book 1. I read PS/SS in 2000 but I didn't really like it that much and took me about a month to get through. Then I saw the movie and loved it. And even in movie 1 I thought Dan/Emma had such great chemistry.

So I decided to give the books another chance and I read the first 4 books in less than two weeks. But I didn't really care that about shipping until I read book 4, the kiss on cheek made me 100% sure it would be H/Hr.

I actually never really cared about shipping until after HBP, so I'm relatively new to H/HR. I never cared really about R/Hr or H/G, but I accepted it, until one day I was looking up Harry Potter, and BAM! I ran into Harryloveshermione.com and I was like Yes! This is it, it is impossible any other way. And the rest...is history.

1 - 2 book, I didn't support anybody - heck, they were a little young for it!

But when the third book came - i thought it would be Ron/Hermione but as i continued the read the book - i saw how horrible and bitter Ron was toward Hermione and how Harry tried to be with her and the fact that he listened to her, despite being angry really got me into shipping them.

When fourth year came - i wasn't too bothered, i still shipped them but it wasn't till the fifth book, i became a hard Harmony fan. I liked Cho and i didn't have any problems with her or with Krum. I thought they were a good addition to the book.

The only problem i had was Harry/Ginny because i didn't like how it came out of the blue to me - i saw no hint that they would get together than all of a sudden Harry was jealous.

I didn't have a fixation on shipping until HBP when I thought something went horribly wrong, but I did always think it would end up H/Hr since that scene in the book.

I remember I was sitting in the theater at the midnight premiere of SS with my brother (who was an avid reader and an avid H/Hr shipper ). I remember throughout the movie I was thinking, "Wow, these kids have great chemistry" (they were a little young though).

As the chess scene concluded I leaned over to my brother and asked "Do they together? Please tell they get together!"

I was done for

My obsession really only started before HBP. I liked the idea of HHr before, but I really wasn't getting worked up about the fact that JKR seemed to be wanting to go RHr. I think maybe before HBP, I got into HHr fanfiction. Before that, RHr fanfiction wasn't working for me at all. I never got into it, but with HHr, I got hooked instantly. That's when I started really loving the pair, then I discovered PK, and all the greatest HHr fanfic were here. That was it. HHr had me.

I remember watching PS/SS the first weekend after it was premiered and the moment I left the theater I thought that they were going to be together. After that I read the books in like a month and with each book I read I kept thinking that they were meant to be; in my mind R/Hr never even had a chance, for me they fought like siblings do.

I never even doubted their relationship, until HBP came out and it knocked the air out of me with how they were acting. After that was when I entered the world of fanfiction and I have been a proud delusional ever since. The weirdest thing is that my non-shipper friends all want H/Hr to happen, none of them picked on the anvil-sized clues.

Okay my name is Katie and I have been a h/hr sice the troll scene...except for a quick moment at the end oh CoS and The very begining of PoA but that is it.




Forgive me.

I've actually been a H/Hr shipper since before I ever read the books or saw the movies. My mom didn't want me to read Harry Potter when I was little because of the witchcraft. But I heard people talking about it at school, so I had an idea of the characters and such.

Then one day, I was reading some info about one of the books (I think maybe it was GoF?) before it came out in a magazine, and it said that Harry would have a love interest, but it wasn't Hermione. I remember feeling really disappointed, but I had no clue why.

THEN, when I was 17, my mom finally said I could read whatever I wanted because she knew I wasn't going to run off and try to cast spells on people. So I borrowed the books from a friend and read 1-5 in a row. And by then, I was sold. I finally had reasons to put with my random gut feeling from years ago. H/Hr were perfect partners and I thought they were they only choice for the final couple. And I've been a Harmonian ever since. And I'll still feel that way, no matter what the outcome of book 7 is.

~Dora the Delusional

GoF.

Before the whole Yule Ball thing, I had never even thought about the couples. But when I read about Harry's reaction to Hermione in her dress, and then the fight between her and Ron, I asked myself: "Who would I want Hermione to end up with, anyway?" and the answer came so easily and quickly it still surprises me to this day: "Harry."

And that was the beginning of the end

Living under a rock as I do, my initial introduction to the HP universe came belatedly as well as reluctantly.

Although I did start reading the books before I saw any of the movies, I did not become formally introduced, interested, (and immediately obsessed) with HP until the summer of 2004.

While I am speaking from hindsight, from the very beginning I believe that I recognized Hermione as the heroine and obvious match for Harry. Despite her haughtiness, I fell in love with Hermione’s character from her very first appearance, and I think that I suspected a certain chemistry between her and Harry even before the troll scene.
Something about the way in which she did not idolize Harry or feel intimidated by him (unlike Ginny later) spoke to me. By the troll scene, my expectations about the trio’s friendship were confirmed, and by the end of the book I was convinced that it would be H/Hr throughout the series. This being said, I did not think in immediate terms as they were still quite young.

Of course, by the time that I began reading the books I had seen the previews for the movies that were out, so this could have very well influenced my expectations.

Anyway, to make a long story short, I do not think that I started actively “shipping” H/Hr until I first caught wind of JKR’s possible decision to make Hr/R an item. Even though I had gotten wind of the possibility that H/Hr was not going to happen, the IOD still came as an utter shock, but that is another topic...

I think that I was going to write more and it was going to be brilliant, but it is late and I am struggling to stay awake. Hope what I have written makes sense…

Cheers!
BigD1

I just have one thing to say:

SS-last chapter-chess scene-harryandhermione convo-I got hooked by then.

I don't have anything very sophisticated to relate, but here goes...

I was spurred to start reading the series when, shortly before the first movie's release, I caught a hint of R/H in a fan magazine article about the movie. Though I knew very little about the books or the characters then, I understood that Hermione was the heroine as Harry was the hero. Call me a traditionalist, but like Miss Clavel in the Madeline books, I couldn't help thinking, "Something is not right."

Then I bought Book One (the movie was hyped so much, too, that I thought it a good idea to be prepared for it), and I didn't get too far into it before I was hooked on the series. When Hermione first appeared in the book, and I noted the contrasting impressions Harry and Ron made on her (and vice-versa), I also noted what BigD1 calls "a certain chemistry between her and Harry even before the troll scene." As the story progressed, I only saw that chemistry keep getting stronger: by the end, it was obvious to me that these two kids worked far better together than Ron and Hermione ever could. A month hadn't passed before I read Books Two and Three as well; my certainty about the H/H chemistry never once wavered. (Nor, in either those or the last three books, did I ever once see why Hermione should prefer Ron to Harry.)

I finally got around to seeing the first movie on Christmas Day 2001 (right after seeing JIMMY NEUTRON: BOY GENIUS). Though my head was a bit overcrowded from having read Books One through Three within a month of each other, I found the film a masterful adaptation of the book. The casting choices especially impressed me: Richard Harris as Dumbledore (if only he'd lasted just long enough to do the third film!), Maggie Smith as McGonagall (though her hair color was wrong), Robbie Coltrane as Hagrid, Alan Rickman as Snape. It was hard to form an opinion of Daniel Radcliffe's Harry or Rupert Grint's Ron, but when Emma Watson first appeared on screen, I knew: she was Hermione! It's often occurred to me that she's made Hermione somewhat more human and vulnerable than she, Hermione, sometimes appears in print. But I digress...

The "you're a great wizard" scene played, if anything, even better on film than in print -- though the hug was grafted onto the next movie. I was especially pleased that Harry's line, "I'm not as good as you," had been retained (it was subsequently pointed out to me that Ron would never have told Hermione such a thing). This scene, along with a number of other bits in the films (some from canon, others not), served only to reinforce my certainty about the H/H chemistry. Of course, it's been even better that Dan and Emma have shown similar chemistry, at least on screen...

I was a neutral shipper until I read OoTP in June of '03. By the time I finished the book I had been converted 100% to being an H/Hr shipper. Before that I didn't really care, and I saw both sides to the whole R/Hr or H/Hr thing, but OoTP was just so amazingly pro-H/Hr that it converted me fully, and luckily it did!

My story isn't full of sudden realizations or big revelations. I was merely a movie-goer, saw first three movies without reading the book. I liked the movies very much though. (yeah, i'm a sucker for kid's movies) But my saving grace was that my mum liked them too. Especially Hermione. All that little "big" attitude, the know-it-all-ness, the way she raised her finger, and the whole scene at Flitwick's class, "it's Levi-OH-sa, not leviiiosaaah!". My goodness, i just fell in love with her on sight. Let's not forget the "light reading" she has, and the way she smacked the book down on the table and gave Ron "the look". It turned me speechless. I mean, how could a child that young be that talented, be that expressive when you see many so-called-actors today lack on that aspect. Needless to say, it's Emma's portrayal of Hermione that i see when i read the books.



I totally agree with you sir. You agreeing with me gives me credence. Thank you.

To be honest, i wasn't impressed by the books, until my cousins (who of course were younger, like 8-10 years my junior) recommended the books, lent me the first one. The older one was reading OotP, i remember that. Since i was already taken with Hermione, i wanted to see what the fuss was about. The "fuss" i learned about rather quickly. After finishing the book in a few hours, both mum and dad read in a few days and i went to buy our own set of the five HP books. When I got home with them, imagine three grown-up people; me, my mum and my dad, literally fighting over seizing the books to read them first. I remember my dad locking himself in the bathroom with one of them, making mum wait for another day.

In about two weeks time, I was well rehearsed in HP books. All three of us were. Me, being the computer geek, went online to catch up with upcoming GoF movie news, discovered veritaserum and mugglenet. After months of resisting the fanfictions, I gave in and started first at MN's FF section. I didn't give a second thought to sections other than HHr pairings, since any possible couplings were expected in fandoms. The quality of HHr fics there were greatly lacking for my taste. (Remember, I'm coming from the great XF fandom. My choice of the fics there are something to behold, very deep in context, very long.) Thus i began searching for better fics, and ta-da! Portkey! No fancy slogans indeed.

All this time i was just reading fanfics to pass the time until the next book, and until the GoF movie that was to come. I wasn't really thinking anything about RHr, i never thought it possible. From the very beginning I saw a steady build-up of HHr, the boy who-needed-help-in-defeating-voldemort- and the brightest-witch-of-her-age-whose-help-was-mandatory-for-the-mentioned-boy
-to-defeat-voldemort. It was a magnificient story.
But alas! HBP came and i was gobsmacked, dumbfounded, stupefied! And then I found there was an interview with JKR, which was rightly called IoD. It was after then i realized i was *fixated* on HHr. More than JKR herself, all these other RHr supporters (who just happened supporting H/G too, of course) that made me who i am now. I was thinking HHr was canon until i was slapped and told off that it was not.

So, here i am.

S.

I was a neutral shipper and didnt really care that much about HP until I discovered YouTube last October and stumbled on a really good Harry/Hermione vid. I paused a while and said... "Hey, they DO look cute together.. I wonder." I found www.harryloveshermione.com and then Portkey and then...BOOM... I became hooked and became an official HHr supporter.

I was about 9 years old when i started reading the books and i didnt really care about the relationship side, but once i got older and i first read GOF and i think the article that Rita Skeeter wrote about harry and hermione really got me thinking and it just started to gradually build from there. It was after i saw COS in the cinema and i watched the hug between the two of them at the end that i fully became a h/hr shipper!!!

I then started to look at fansites and came across Mugglenet and started reading the fanfics and i absolutely loved them, and i remember reading one story in particular and they said it would be continued on a place called Portkey and thats how i got to here! It was so great to find people who understand how great the h/hr pairing is H/HR and Portkey rules!!!

Amy xxx

My grandmother actually got me into H/Hr (yes, as odd as that sounds). I'd been reading the books since my ninth birthday, but had never paid attention to the pairings. So we were riding in the car one afternoon, and we were talking about Harry Potter. My grandmother then brought up the romance in the books (she'd only read the first one). Me, being only about eleven or twelve at the time, said "There's no romance in Harry Potter!" and my grandmother replied that of course there was, between Harry and Hermione. Curious, I went and re-read the books, and have been a devought Harmonian every since.

Well, I was brought into this whacked-out-world (can I copyright that?) after seeing Kate J's screencaps at HLH.com. I had only seen the first movie (and read the first two books) up until that point, and my first thought after seeing the first movie was that Hermione had a thing for Harry (because of the look Emma/Hermione gives off when Dan/Harry goes to face Voldemort alone near the end).

I never thought anything of it until I stumbled upon Kate's "re-cap" of PS/SS. I wasn't looking for anything shippy (as I had no idea what that whole thing even was), just a funny version of HP.

Well, the more I read it, the more I laughed, and the more I explored her site. That led me to the Emmawatson.net forums. I became somewhat active in there, and then someone linked to a story here on Portkey.

My friend told me about the Harry Potter books and I decided to start reading it. At the time I had no idea that there was the H/Hr and R/Hr pairing. After I read P/S I immediately saw the connection between H/Hr but not R/Hr. I couldn't stand the bickering/bantering between the two no matter how R/Hr shippers say it's cute and I also disliked Ron at that point(no offense).

My "delusions", as I like to call my fixation really came after OotP in 2004. I had always shipped Hermione/Harry but three years ago was when I discovered shipping and Portkey. I had no idea back in the day people thought it would be R/Hr in fact R/Hr had never occurred to me at all (did I dodge those anvils or what) so you can imagine my surprise when I found R/Hr sites.

Like some others, I was also a neutral shipper until I read OotP. I just figured that it was going to be OBHWF (I didn't know that's what people called it at the time) with R/Hr and H/G.

Out of both pairings H/G bothered me the most b/c I felt like it was so predictable to have this little girl idolize Harry and then they grow up, get together and live happily ever after. That only happens in fairy tales and HP is NOT a fairy tale. It just seemed like such a lame idea but I thought that since R/Hr were apparently going to get together then Harry would need somebody.

That was all until I read OotP and realized how great H/Hr would be together. There were all these H/Hr moments throughout the book and I was curious if there were any other people out there like me who might also like H/Hr. So I googled H/Hr and came across harryloveshermione.com and saw some of the fabulous videos which eventually led me here where I read some even more fabulous essays that used canon to back up the argument that yes H/Hr was a valid pairing. I was so happy to find that I wasn't alone in my love for H/Hr. Of course, I was bitterly disappointed with HBP but like most shows and movies the early pairings are set up as the foil for the final pairings and that's how I've come to view H/G and R/Hr. Hopefully all of us Harmonians who have kept the faith will be rewarded in the end. If not, there's plenty of fabulous fanfic to erase any other pairing from my memory.

My grandmother was the one that got me into Harry Potter in the first place.

Is after HBP a suitable answer, maybe? Um, at that time I'd read all the books. I didn't really read through the lines at all, yet I still thought Harry and Hermione would be together. It was totally obvious. HBP came out, and at that time, shipping wasn't a big deal to me. It was like, I wasn't shocked and didn't care.

But the summer afterward, I caught wind of portkey, and because a full fledged Harmonian. Strange, huh?

I basically became a H/Hr shipper during my first re-reading of OOTP. Before that, I was a H/G addict because I thought they were "cute". I dunno, I just kind of wanted ginny to get with the boy she ran after the train for in SS.

Anyways, I think it was our favorite enormous hug scene in the beginning of OOTP that caught my eye during my reread. Then I started realizing how deep of a relationship Harry and Hermione have... and I was off to the Harmonian races lol!

Mine too Though not the same grandmother who got me into H/Hr.