Ariong posted:

This graph makes it so difficult to follow the small lines, which is to say, almost all of them.

I'm also skeptical about the dataset used. It doesn't seem right to me that Snape/Harry is the second most popular Harry pairing by a large margin. I mean sure there are bound to be plenty of stories where their ages are matched up somehow and plenty more that just do the gross kid/adult ship. Even so, the idea that (for example) Harry/Hermione not only doesn't beat it but doesn't even come close seems ludicrous to me. I've never actually read Harry Potter fanfiction, if someone wants to affirm/refute my speculation I would be interested/horrified to hear what you have to say.


See at first I thought "oh, that explains it." However, if this is true then the chart still has a lot of irregularities. Like, if this is true, why is there not a single line connecting Harry to Dumbledore? Or Ginny to Ron? That doesn't really track.