Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-36677289-20181013190100/@comment-24577221-20181015172919

To use Harry Potter fandom as an example, many people shipped Harry / Hermione... and, in alternate-history fan fiction, still do. There's also Harry / Draco shipping, coming from the romantic tradition of people who hate each other coming to love each other. Based on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, some people shipped Dumbledore / Grindelwald -- that is, assumed that they were more than just "best friends" when they were young. And a few months after Deathly Hallows was published, J.K. Rowling said in an interview that that was true.