Favourite Pairings Poll: Results

[kennahijja]

Here are the results from the Favourite Pairings Poll, Round Two, which, in itself, was the follow-up to the Most Popular Fandom Pairings Poll, whose results are here.

With apologies to the threesome lovers, I had to weed those out along with unspecified and non-HP pairings (although I perfectly agree with forked that Ian/Irons is the height of hot, and pretty canon too!).
author_by_night: in RL you're right, of course, about homosexual pairings not needing a seperate category. But since fandom has its own conventions, and things would get very murky in a all-for one, you'll have to bear with it :).
Again, first choice was awarded 4 points, second 3, etc.


Maleslash: 1) Harry/Draco (195), 2) Remus/Sirius (142), 3. Snape/Harry (140), 4. Snape/Lupin (79). Runners-up: Harry/Ron (65) and Ron/Draco (62), followed by Harry/Lucius (39), Lucius/Snape (35) and Harry/Voldemort+Tom (33)

Het: 1) Ron/Hermione (129), 2) Snape/Hermione (73), 3. Harry/Ginny (64), 4. Draco/Hermione (56). Runners-up: James/Lily (55), Harry/Hermione (52), and Lucius/Narcissa and Remus/Tonks (both 47)

Femmeslash: 1) Ginny/Luna (107), 2) Pansy/Hermione (84), 3. Hermione/Ginny (69), 4. Ginny/Pansy (35). Runners-up: Hermione/Luna (34), Tonks/Ginny (33), Bellatrix/Narcissa (32).


Slash... interestingly, the personal favourites and 'what do you think are fandom favourites' polls turned up exactly the same results in practically the same order (except for a mention of Harry/Lucius in the former, which I'll blame on running this on my own, slanted f-list, *g*).

Femmeslash... again the first 9 favourites on both lists were identical, different positions aside - some pairings a bit higher or lower.

Het... here, the results are a little more diverse, but not much, although Ron/Hermione came out on top in both polls. Personal favourites seem to rate adult-and-cross-gen pairings a little bit higher, but that, again, may have to do with it being my flist, which isn't very teen-heavy.

Extremely different, however, was the number of pairings mentioned: in the 'personal favourites poll', four times more maleslash pairings were mentioned than in the 'fandom favourites poll', twice as many femmeslash pairings, and a staggering six times as many favourite het pairings. It looks as if people are aware of a limited number of fandom-wide popular ships, but have more diverse personal preferences.

If you want a mad assortment of tables to see the details, throw me a mail :).

Also, *grumbles quietly*, as soon as December is over, I'll so be spamming you lot with femmeslash recs! This amount of "don't really read femmeslash" responses is, well, *frump*... You're missing out on a lot of good stuff there!

Comments

[a-t-rain.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm fond of Oral History by Acadine, but I don't know if it's precisely the sort of thing you're looking for, since although it's labeled Padma / Cho it reads perfectly well as a genfic.

[snorkackcatcher]

Hmm ... I see what you mean. It's a curious one, and I'm not quite sure why it needs a ship label at all.

It also seems ... I don't know, one of those odd stories that (to me) try to make a point about racism using the Potterverse, but don't quite nail it? Because it has to play against the analogy JKR seems to be setting up, where there genuinely isn't any skin prejudice in the wizarding world, but there's a fully functional equivalent prejudice, showing that the mindset is universal.

(Also, personally, on the general gist of the story, I've no great problem with the concept of focusing primarily on local and regional history at school, that's just practicality. I wouldn't expect Indian schools to teach (say) the British Civil War -- or for that matter the US Civil War -- rather than their own history.)