Fandom Discussion: New HBP Additions -- yea or nay?

[themostepotente]

Since there have been several new character additions from HBP, I decided to do a post to see who took a shine or a dislike to whom -- and also to discuss new favorite ships.

I see no reason really to put this behind a cut. But I implore you, if you have not yet read HBP, DON'T peruse the comments!

So without further adieu...

What new characters did you like/dislike?

What new ships (or renewed interests in old, forgotten ships) have tickled your fancy?

--P

Comments

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

Loved Luna - if she's still considered new. Everything she says is brilliant.

Sanguini! The pasty eating, blood/pasta-named Vampire!

Rolanda (?) Vine? Rapist in training. She's just nasty.

Also... GRAWP PANTS!

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Her first name was Romilda.

Sanguini -- wasn't he just aptly named? *G*

[femmequixotic]

Slughorn owns my soul. I am so enamoured with the slimy little bastard. *snuggles him* (Hm. I may just have a thing for Slytherin Heads of Houses... *ponders*)

As for ships? *coughcough*

Snape/Draco, baby. ALL THE WAY!

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Ah, the shippy implications!

I thought of you and rosesanguina immediately. *G*

Nice icon, Femme :-)

[acid3.livejournal.com]

Oh, good question.

Eldred Worple/Sanguini!

The "and, of course, his friend" [er, significant other] line, the "here, have a pastry" [watch your diet, Sang! -- Yes, _Eldred_], the "My Life Amongst the Vampires" [and my life with this particular one]. I was hooked from the first paragraph they were mentioned.

Enough said. They're my new obsession.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Could I persuade you into sketching them? *G*

[inathunderstorm.livejournal.com]

I'm in love with Merope Gaunt's name. Seriously.

I adore Luna Lovegood. I think I might have to ship her with Voldemort because I can't stand it. I will write that. I played with the idea before HBP and now...*dies*

I ilke Slughorn. I like him for being such a consummate Slytherin.

Draco/Pansy. *loves*

Draco/Snape. *Fans self* GUH.

Harry/Draco, for obsessive!hate!sex and nothing remotely relationship-ish. "Tell me what Draco Malfoy is doing inside you." *SNORT* Indeed, JKR. Do tell.

Lucius/Narcissa. My second OTP. *pets them* The Malfoy family dynamic made me clap with glee. I knew she loved him. No trophy wife, my Cissa. Er...Cissy?

Bellatrix/Rodolphus. Because my OTP is crazy, psycho love. Though Bella is slightly less-psycho.

That being said...Bellatrix/Voldemort. Just because. Rodolphus can watch, if he gets out.

Finally, my favorite slashy all-about-the-dominance-fight pair...

Lucius/Rodolphus prison sex.

GUH.

Yeah. That'd be all :)

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

I just want to hug Merope and say "It's not worth it, he's not worth it, get the hell out of England and far away from your family!"

[happiestwhen.livejournal.com]

Liked Fenrir. He definitely has darkfic non-con horror written all over him. I'm excited for the possibilities there.

Wasn't too keen on any of the other new characters. :\

Snape/Draco!! Oh, the subtext! The running away together at the end! You couldn't have thought up a better set-up for that ship if you tried!

Also, I am all over Albus/Severus and Albus/Harry. This makes me feel slightly dirty. :> Albus/Severus is so interesting to me especially with all these theories surfacing about a second Unbreakable Vow, and, well, of course, *the scene*, and all the questions it raises. As for Albus/Harry, that is just plain cute, and "Dumbledore's Man", and "I'm with you" made me bawl like a sap.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Snape/Draco!! Oh, the subtext! The running away together at the end! You couldn't have thought up a better set-up for that ship if you tried!

It was a Snaco lover's wet dream, wannit? *G*

[autumnsrust.livejournal.com]

i'm probably biased, but i have to go with Fenrir Greyback. he was just, pure evil in such wonderfully horrible ways. *grins*

i also found myself liking Slughorn, although i was a bit dubious about him in the beginning. i loved the scene at Aragog's funeral.

i wasn't much impressed with the new Minister, but i don't feel like i got enough feel of him in this book, so, that could change.

[lizardspots.livejournal.com]

Omg we think exactly the same things. *cheers* Yay Fenrir!

[lizardspots.livejournal.com]

Slughorn was fabulous, and Fenrir Greyback has tickled my mojo. He's so sexy in a murderous paedophilic way. XD! I didn't like Romilda Vane much, she reminds me of Bellatrix. Rufus Scrimgouer was a little annoying, but I sense there's a whole lot of backstory behind him.

Ships - Remus/Fenrir! :D HBP has also awakened a slight interest in Snape/Draco for me, and restrengthened my Snape/Harry obsession. :D

[mooncharm.livejournal.com]

He's so sexy in a murderous paedophilic way.

Horrifically well said Lizard. :D *licks Fenrir*

[xochiquetzl]

I really felt the Severus/Narcissa love. ;)

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Oh, God, YES. A thousand times YES!

I've always liked this pairing, but now...

And with Lucius in the slammer? *halo*

[fiendling.livejournal.com]

i would actually consider harry/luna much cuter than harry/ginny :o!!!

slughorn rocked, i want to draw him all rolly with popping buttons :P hahahaha
dont really have any feelings for the new minister. he didnt really do much... i bet he looks cool though. greyback was pretty fascinating, too

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

slughorn rocked, i want to draw him all rolly with popping buttons :P hahahaha

I triple dog dare you to draw him in bacon chaps. *G*

[starrysummer.livejournal.com]

Slughorn. Loved him. I mean, our first glimpse of him was as a TALKING ARMCHAIR.

Ships? Snape/Bellatrix, Narcissa/Bellatrix, Draco/Pansy, Draco/Myrtle, Ron/Squid and LOTS AND LOTS OF INFERI!PORN.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

I knew I could count on you for the Snape/Narcissa/Bellatrix love. *G*

[flimpy.livejournal.com]

Slughorn is fandom's new bitch. :D LOVE HIM.

As for new ships? Snape/Narcissa. Draco/Myrtle has interesting possibilities, I say without irony!

And of course, my love for Snape/Draco has only strengthened. *Huzzahs*

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

As for new ships? Snape/Narcissa. No conjugal visits in Azkaban, y'know, so... yeaahh.

I can just see Narcissa writing Lucius...

My Dearest Darling Lucius,

No need to worry about me. Severus has been by on more than one occasion.

Lucius: Whore! I saw Severus first!

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Luna as Quidditch commentator yay!

Blaise Zabini as a tall, handsome, exotic black guy yay!

Phineas Nigellus didn't have enough lines, darn it. I still love him.

Sluggy Slughorn!

Yay for Tom Riddle's dysfunctional family!

Aside from making Snape/Draco CANON BABY! I also was pleased to see Draco/Myrtle, Ron/Squid, Hagrid/Aragog - and am seriously tempted by Lockhart/Slughorn.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

-and am seriously tempted by Lockhart/Slughorn.

Oh, I'd so read that. *G*

[notrafficlights.livejournal.com]

I loved the way Fleur didn't take no shit from Molly. That was awesome, and is responsible for me now heartily supporting Bill/Fleur.

Slughorn was interesting, but creeped me out because he's definitely weirdo-paedo material.

I loved the way the book expanded on Draco's character () and Narcissa was painted as a real mummy.

With the exception of the very end with the whole Tonks shite, Lupin was gorgeous. I have a thing for long-suffering older men.

Romilda & McClaggen Just seemed rather pointless to me. McClaggen is future wife-beater material.

Fenrir Greyback has definite fandom potential. Nice and psychotic.

Tom/Anyone-he-can-manipulate is love. Especially Albus.

Ron/Squid OTP.

Also, I'm definitely digging the Trio-love. That was one of the few golden moments of the book. Stronger together.

Dislikes:

H/G, R/Hr, Remus/Tonks : Their Love Is So Pastede On Yay!!1one *gags* That crap totally ruined the book for me.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Harry/Ginny is absolutely gag-worthy, I agree. Don't care for Remus/Tonks either.

[mamaboid.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, I like Slughorn! He's flawed, but he rocks. I had wondered what would happen to a Penseive memory if its owner "rewrote history" -- now we know, and it was Sluggy who showed us!

I like Luna now even more that I did before. I hope they keep her on as announcer for the Quidditch matches.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, I like Slughorn! He's flawed, but he rocks. I had wondered what would happen to a Penseive memory if its owner "rewrote history" -- now we know, and it was Sluggy who showed us!

That was a neat bit of writing, wannit? *G*

[ladyflowdi.livejournal.com]

Sluggy reminded me of my uncle, complete with overhanging gut and smarmy attitude. ::grin::

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

And buttons popping? *G*

Slughorn was cool in a very non-sexual way.

[scarah2.livejournal.com]

One word: GAUNTS

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

The Gaunts were way cool. Harry Potter meets the Beverly Hillbillies.

[balefully.livejournal.com]

Fenrir Greyback is my new favourite ever. And luckily, everyone in the universe appears to agree with me. FINALLY there will be loads of people writing all the cannibalisticbestialchanporn I've been CRAVING FOREVER.

<33333 Oh, Remus, if there was anything left in the WORLD that we hadn't done to you to make you suffer, it is going to happen now. My love knows no bounds.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Fenrir/Remus has totally reinterested me in Lupin again. They'll be no puppy shipping here, baby. *G*

[shadesofbrixton.livejournal.com]

i can't believe i'm saying this, but i am now fully and totally endorsing remus/bill slash. i'd love to see something angsty and dark and weird and wolfish. which i guess is as easy to find with all the fenrir junk that's bound to be sprouting up, but it's so much more pleasant to envision a weasley being debauched by a slightly grey (morally, not appearance) lupin. mrawr.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

So long as Remus is not shipped with Tonks I'm happy.

And Bill/Fleur is up there in gag-worthiness with Harry/Ginny.

[rissyau.livejournal.com]

R.A.B.

I think it's got to be Regulus Black.
All the clues add up.


What do you guys think?

[nocturnaldragon.livejournal.com]

without a doubt.

[marksykins.livejournal.com]

I loved nearly all of the new characters: Fenrir Greyback, the Gaunts (especially Mighty Morfin Snake Nailer), Horace "I'm a Buddha-looking Queen" Slughorn, and of course Sanguina Sanguini the Vampire. :D

Ships, I'm finally vaguely interested in Snape/Lily (unrequited, though) and Neville/Luna. Definitely still on board the Harry/Draco express, and now for more than hatesex, too. Trio shipping like crazy, as usual. I'm evidently the only one who's gone from sort of into Snape/Draco when bored to even less interested in them as a slash pairing. And, no, not because I hate them, but because I now see Snape as an overprotective father, and more in the Arthur Weasley way than the dirty, incesty way. Heh.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Mighty Morfin? Why do the Powere rNGERS SUDDENLY COME TO MIND? :p

And your ass had better stay on the H/D Express too, Marksy.

[http://users.livejournal.com/__hibiscus/]

What new characters did you like/dislike?

I'm not sure if these count, but...

Eew to weepy Tonks. I know, she was all heartbroken and mopey because Remus loves Sirius more than her Remus is holding out on her, but whatever. She wasn't one of my more favourite characters in OotP, and she's still not very high on my to-like list in HBP.

WTF was up with Mary-Sue!Ginny?! She's all of a sudden pretty and popular and witty and wot. I think JK read one too many fics from ff.net.

Mollywobbles! Er, I just wanted to type that out.


What new ships (or renewed interests in old, forgotten ships) have tickled your fancy?

Seriously? So much of the H/D. I think with the introduction of sensitive!Draco, there'll be a flood of angsty redemption fics. And to that I say, bring it! <3333333

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

I think I love you, Hibi. *curls up at your feet*

[pen-and-umbra.livejournal.com]

What new characters did you like/dislike?

Apart from Sanguini, the pasty-loving vampire with a roving eye, I gotta say that this book finally made Narcissa and Bellatrix interesting to me. Oh yes. So old-new characters.

Much love for Snape who lives in a hovel and AKs people! :D And Slughorn, the different sort of Slytherin, much love for him, too.

Fenrir Greyback was a horrid, fascinating addition. A true psychopath. I expect an explosion of werewolf-related non-con chan (le sigh), though, and it'll be all thanks to him.

Mollywobbles! Roonil Wazlib! Won-won! "Lav-Lav"! Aahaha! XD Old people got some funky new nicknames.

What new ships (or renewed interests in old, forgotten ships) have tickled your fancy?

Mmm, Snape/Draco, obviously. Still much love for Harry/Snape, the ship that just got so much harder.

Bellatrix/Narcissa.

Dumbledore/Riddle.

Also enjoyed R/Hr -- not because I give a flying fuck about the ship, but because it was bound to happen and it then stirred up so much shiat. ;)

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Mollywobbles! Roonil Wazlib! Won-won! "Lav-Lav"! Aahaha! XD Old people got some funky new nicknames.

At least 'Sevvykins' wasn't in there :P

[danbi.livejournal.com]

Pince/Filch=OTP.

That's all I'm saying.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Aww -- what about the Snape/Filch lurve? :(

[xylodemon.livejournal.com]

Slughorn is a total skeeve, but I couldn't get enough of him.

Romilia Vane needs an intervention. Or something.

I took an odd interest in Draco this time. I mean, he's not new, except he sort of is, because he actually has a personality, purpose and a plot thread of his very own.

The Gaunts were like something out of Deliverance. They were just fascinating, in a trainwreck sort of way.

Remus still owns my soul. He's pretty when he lies and he's my favorite martyr, even if he suddenly likes women.

I've tried desperately not to ship Harry/Voldie all this time, but he really was on about how hot Tom was in every pensieve scene.

Snape/Draco, dude. Why didn't I see it before?

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

The Gaunts were like something out of Deliverance. They were just fascinating, in a trainwreck sort of way.

I thought so too. Reminded me of that X-Files episode called 'Home.' Did you see that?

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Well, the het romance in this book made me gag (specially R/T) het, het, het. No. Just.. no.

The Harry/Ginny was ten times worse to me.