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Yesterday, I stumbled across the following:

"It has been claimed that [Harmonians, which are hardcore-Harry/Hermione-shippers] have a collective philosophy that extends beyond the pairing war. This philosophy is generally considered to relate strongly to "Christian values", such as chastity and purity. According to Harmonians, Ron/Hermione is abusive, and Harry/Ginny is shallow and based on lust."

(Fanhistory)

Now. Plain wrong!

Well, not all of it. Let me state that "purity" is, actually, one of the many good adjectives that are related to the Harmony-Ship. But not Harry and Hermione are "pure", but their love. Which doesn't mean that they can't have lots and lots of sex. That's not what purity means in this case.
Also, in my opinion, Ron/Hermione is nothing but stupid, and Harry/Ginny is shallow - but it's not actually based on lust, it's based on nothing! If it were based on lust, well, they're sixteen and fifteen in book six, so that's not really wrong or unnormal. It's not exactly mine, either, but I'd be okay with it.

What makes me angry about the above statement is that it compares Harmony with Christianity. 

ARRRRGGHH!!!

Let me state that now. The Harmony-Ship has, in and on itself, NOTHING to do with ANY religion there is! The Alchemical Search for Your Divine Self does apply to Harry/Hermione, but that doesn't mean that us Shippers believe in anything like that!  
I for myself am totally and absolutely against religion. And still, I consider myself a Harmonian, because I entirely support the Harry/Hermione-Ship.

So, this goes out to you, Fanhistory, and to everyone who ever believed Harmony to have anything to do with Christianity: It doesn't.
Actually, now that I know that some people so closely associate things like trust, understanding, respect and purity with Christianity, I'm finally not so surprised anymore that there are Ron/Hermione-Shippers, and that there are Christian people.

One year after "DH", I present to you:

How DH really came into being 

This is what I did to my first copy of "Deathly Hallows":



For more, see this gallery of mine.

If somebody happens to come across my Journal, and if that somebody is/was a Harry Potter-fan, experienced the Days Leading Up to Deathly Hallos and all the Pseudo-spoilers popping up - and if you have stumbled over the chapter titles under the cut and believed they could be real -

then I have to apologise. It was me who created them, and I did it to show some people over on a German HP-discussion board how easy it is to make some realistic looking fake-spoilers. The chapter titles happened to find their way through the net to some people from foreign countries - hell, I found a BRAZILIAN page where they discussed the titles! - and if you have read them too, I just want you to know that they were my creation. 

If you have read them too and believed them to be true, I want to apologise.
And, by the way - if you have read them, then I'd love to hear about it. I'd really like to know how far the reach of my chapter titles actually went. ;) So, leave a comment, maybe?
 

Hey people! :) This is Seamus, otherwise known (or not) as Thomas. I don't really know what this journal is going to be all about, maybe I'll stop posting anything after a while. But until then, I guess the main topics of this blog will be Harry Potter, books in general or maybe my own texts.

For today, I only want to introduce myself a little bit.
 

( It is I, Seamus Larren ... )