Just a little rant...

1. Shippers who ship only one ship. This, I feel, is really the thing that's caused all the wank since Saturday. There are all these people who have one particular ship they like, and they become militant about it. Personally, I ship a whole bunch of ships. That is to say, I enjoy reading a number of ships - if the fic's good. My favourites include (but are not limited to) Ron/Hermione, Harry/Ron, Harry/Ron/Hermione, Ron/Draco, Snape/Hermione, Snape/Harry, Sirius/James, Sirius/Remus, James/Lily, Lily/Remus, Remus/Ginny, Draco/Ginny and Sirius/Snape. Look at all the cross-overs there. I don't particularly care if they become canon or not, because there's such a wealth of good fic out there that I don't NEED it to be fanfic. It's highly unlikely that Harry/Ron/Hermione, probably my OT3, will ever become canon, but I DON'T CARE. And neither should any of you. No ship is ever really sunk, if you're imaginative enough. Young love doesn't always last. JKR doesn't record every detail of every character's life. Let JKR have her canon relationships, and we'll have our fanon ones. There's really no need for all this wank.

2. Fics in which Hermione changes her last name after marriage. I just can't see it happening. She's too progressive, too soapbox-y to do something like that. She likes her independence, and I feel it's OOC of her to change her last name.

3. This irritating convention of Harry/Hermione and Harry/Draco writers to present Ron as the bad guy, or Harry/Ron writers to slag off Hermione. I think it's lazy to put two characters together and instead of working through the issues their close friends might have, and writing it in such a way that all the loved ones are cool with it, to just have other characters go "Well, I can't accept this, I'm going to go off in a tizz." I think it's bad characterisation. Let's look at Ron, first. If Harry and Hermione hooked up, I think he'd be hurt, but he'd get over it. Partly because he feels Harry deserves to have good things, and also because I think he'd be lost without them. If Harry hooked up with Draco, Ron would probably feel DEEPLY betrayed, but if Harry showed him that no, it didn't change things between them and Hermione sat him down and gave him a good talking to, he'd calm down. Likewise, I find it extremely doubtful that Hermione would spaz out over finding out the boys were gay. Seriously. She's uptight, yes, but not about social issues.
The friendship between these three characters is one of the central themes of the books. Yes, there are times when they all want to kill each other, but they always come through it because that's what happens with real friends. They're all very strong people, but it's been said time and time again that they don't cope well when they're fighting, and whenever it comes down to something important, they can forgive each other and move on, because their friendship is more important. To write fic in which one of them storms off forever demonstrates an extremely shallow understanding of the texts.

That is all.