When Harmonians Become Teachers
Thanks to an anonymous who tipped me off on this small wank.

Over on Portkey, there's a thread about non-fandom involved people who ship H/Hr. People post about friends, siblings, parents etc. The stuff about people who've seen the movies and ship H/Hr is a little funny, but the highlight...

The Obsidian Warlock posts about his/her students. I pity the poor things.

I had a reasonable number of interested students in my Grade 12 English class (covering for a term), and we managed to get into the shipping debates of Harry Potter. I issued a challenge to the class to champion several romantic pairings, and to defend it with every literary reference or any other pertinent resource, cited properly, and the champion ship would be the one whose essays were the most convincing. Most of the class didn't have a real concern over Harry Potter books, so I was assured dutiful school work; I would then mark these papers like I would their final, so that they all got a taste of end-of-year expectations, and were all marked on the same scale, with minimum requirements set for research purposes (including citation from all 5 books). Class presentation and defense of your paper was mandatory.

I had 6 papers for H/Hr, 5 for H/G and 6 for R/Hr.

5 of the 6 H/Hr papers were the only A's I handed out. They're also the reason why I ship H/Hr, having been a "casual reader" until that point.

And here we thought it was R/Hr undermining the American education system.