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

[snorkackcatcher]

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!

I'd like to find a good femmeslash fic to Niffle if I could. The trouble is that there isn't all that much of it about, and most of what I do see mentioned is either (a) Blackcest among the Three Sisters (which has to be one of fandom's more bizarre obsessions) or (b) involving Hermione and/or Ginny, which (like much slash) triggers "yeah, right" responses for me.

[ambersnake]

I'll so be spamming you lot with femmeslash recs
Femmeslash just has nothing to offer for me. I already know how the female mind and body work. Yeah, okay, it's very much individual, but compared to the male sex, I at least have a leg to stand on. There's nothing to wonder about women on women. Nor women on men, really. Been there, done that ;) Plus, Rowling's female characters don't really make me want to know more about them.

[hphaeton.livejournal.com]

NOOOOOOOO! How did I miss this? I especially kept my eyes open for this one and did miss it anyway!?

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I'll have to check but I think m guesses at popular pairings were more or less right, hehehe.

That was a very fun series of polls, thank you! *looks forward femslash*

[skuf.livejournal.com]

Interesting surveys - thanks for all the work!