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Screen shot of the front of the mailing list WhenIKissedTheTeacher.

BlogPulse Trend Tracker: Snape/Harry, Snape/Hermione, Snape/Ron.

Comparing the size of various ships on LiveJournal for the Harry Potter fandom: Snape/Lupin, Snape/Hermione, Draco/Hermione, Draco/Ginny, Snape/Harry, Harry/Draco, Harry/Ron, Hermione/Ginny, Ron/Hermione, Harry/Hermione, Harry/Ginny.

[edit] Introduction

Snape/Hermione is a popular Harry Potter pairing.

The first Snape-Hermione story, 'Beyond the Silver Rainbow' was written by Lupinlover and posted to ffnet in September 2000. A fic proposing an alternative ending to her story, 'Letter from Exile One Merciful Morning' (by Textualsphinx) popularised the ship with older readers and writers.

[edit] Terminology

Below is a list of terms and their definitions that are used in this fan fiction community.

• Dubcon refers to fan fiction which features stories where there are dubious consent issues.

[edit] Tropes

• See Marriage Law Challenge.

• In most Snape/Hermione fanfiction, Snape is a reclusive genius with Potions. Hermione is often thrust into his presence as a Potions Assistant, where she begins to realize how misunderstood and interesting he is. In these fics, the two bond over intellectualism and Muggle classic novels.

• Caused by the popular Pawn to Queen by Riley, in many fanfictions Snape was forced to claim Hermione as his slave in order to keep her from rape or torture.

[edit] Timeline

Below is a partial timeline of events that took place in this fan fiction community.

[edit] 2001

• On September 28, 2001, the Snape/Hermione mailing list WhenIKissedTheTeacher (WIKTT) was founded. [1] It would eventually grow to become one of the largest mailing lists in Harry Potter fandom.
• By November 2001, Riley's Pawn to Queen was becoming extremely popular, and, with it, new fans joined the Snape/Hermione ship. Posting volume in December 2001 on WIKTT was approximately six times larger than it had been in November 2001. [2]

[edit] 2002

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[edit] 2003

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[edit] 2004

• Chelleybean created the Marriage Law Challenge on WIKTT.

[edit] 2005

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[edit] 2006

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[edit] 2007

Harry/Hermione, Ron/Hermione, Snape/Hermione mentions on blogs according to IceRocket for the past three months as of June 28, 2007.

• In August, due to a rumor that Yahoo!Groups was removing users who were lurking on mailing lists in this fandom, a number of mailing lists saw an increase in participation so that would not happen. While this rumor was not true, and Yahoo was only removing people who had e-mail accounts bouncing in excess of six months, it did not stop a certain level of hysteria.
• On August 20, 2007, Selina Enriquez posted the following to WIKTT: "3) The artist community Shillusions.com is temporary frozen (you cannot upload images and you cannot delete them). People are suggesting that Shillusions.com is under investigation, because it contains a lot of Harry Potter adult art." [3] Shannon Prano commented later to say this was untrue, that the site was frozen, based on an August 10 announcement, because they were moving to a new server. [4]
• In December 2007, the domain for Playwitch.net expired and the site disappeared as a result. [5]

[edit] Kerfluffles

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[edit] Influential fanworks

Letter from Exile One Merciful Morning is one of the first Snape/Hermione fics. It was posted to FanFiction.Net in December 2000, and described by the writer, Textualsphinx, as a 'fan-fanfiction', being an alternative ending to the very first Snape/Hermione story, Lupinlover's Beyond the Silver Rainbow. The story has been held responsible for inspiring the initial rash of Snape/Hermione stories. (See, for instance, Jodel's essay The good ship Snape and Granger at Red Hen.) Like Riley's Pawn to Queen, written a year later, it offered a feminist slant on the Harry Potter books, though proved less controversial with readers.

[edit] Shippers and Ship Supporters

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[edit] Ship Size

WIKTT is by far the largest and most active Snape/Hermione group on the Internet. As of January 3rd, 2007, it has over 17,000 members.

[edit] External Links

• WIKTT (WhenIKissedtheTeacher) - the largest and most active Snape/Hermione fangroup
• WIKTTmisc - sister mailing list of WIKTT, for all posts unrelated to the Snape/Hermione pairing]
• The WIKTT Archives - the official (but certainly not the only) archive for WIKTT members

[edit] See also

• Snape/Hermione fanzines

[edit] Sources

Below is a partial list of articles and academic sources to help you continue to learn about this community.

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