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Originally Posted by crich70
Yep, there are a lot of terms for things in fanfiction. Slash, femslash, shipping, shippers, etc. Some are no doubt as old as the fan fictions way back after the original Star Trek series had fictions written by the fans for the early fanzines and some are probably newer and came about with the starting of fanfictions on the net. Some pairings are more likely than others too. I've even seen some where Draco sees the error of his ways and ends up in a relationship with Hermione.  Not very likely of course but interesting if done right. |
Dramione (that's Draco/Hermione) is - used to be, anyway - a pretty big ship in the het corner of HP fandom, I think, at least as far as non-canon ships go. Probably not as huge as Drarry (Draco/Harry) or Snarry (Snape/Harry) for that matter, but for het, it's really popular.
I never really got the appeal of that (well, I do in theory, but I was never all that much interested in Draco as a character), being a long-time SSHG (that's Snape/Hermione) shipper instead, but there's some overlap between Dramione and SSHG shippers.
I think the overwhelming majority of non-canon shippers are very much aware that it's very, very, very much not canon and something that would never happen in canon. It's all for fun (even if people do take shipping seriously!) and in some ways, especially with fanfic, it's a whole lot more interesting to try and find ways of never-likely-in-canon pairings to happen in a way that they'd actually more or less make sense, compared to shipping canon pairings - there's so much more room for the "but what if ..." aspects for non-canon ships.
From what I gathered, the ship wars between Ron/Hermione and Harry/Hermione shippers were
huge back in the day, though....