One thing I've observed re: overwhelming shippiness in HP is that we experienced a three year gap in canon right after the end of the fourth book - when things started getting a bit shippy in canon. There was the ball, we now had Remus and Sirius and more human Snape, etc, and I think fandom got sort of...stuck, there. IMO lots of the angst over OotP not being as "good", etc. was that it didn't turn into a romance novel, which was the frame of mind so many fans were in.
That's a very interesting piece of fandom history that I didn't know. I only started reading HP right before OotP came out, so I have no idea what the fandom was like pre-GOF. I think it would have been very interesting to witness the evolution of the fandom from pre-movie, to post-movie, to post GOF. I can imagine a lot of changes as the fanbase changes and the novels introduce more adult themes, esp romance.
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Date: 2005-04-23 03:36 pm (UTC)That's a very interesting piece of fandom history that I didn't know. I only started reading HP right before OotP came out, so I have no idea what the fandom was like pre-GOF. I think it would have been very interesting to witness the evolution of the fandom from pre-movie, to post-movie, to post GOF. I can imagine a lot of changes as the fanbase changes and the novels introduce more adult themes, esp romance.