Rare Pairings vs. Non-Rare Pairings, Round Two

[chimbomba.livejournal.com]

I've been noticing in some wishlists some pairings that are not rare, things such as Draco/Hermione. I'm not really sure how this is happening since we are called Rare Pair Shorts. I didn't think I needed to stress that your wishlists must consist of RARE PAIRS ONLY.

If your wishlist contains a non-rare pairing, I will tell you, and you will need to edit your wishlist accordingly.

However, all this did get me thinking. We have a list of things we consider non-rare and therefore not acceptable at this community, and over time we've been getting some questions about a few pairings. We the mods are starting to get iffy about a few of them ourselves, so we figured it might be best to put it to vote.

If you consider any of the following pairings RARE, mark YES. If you think they are NOT RARE, mark NO.

If there are any pairings you feel need to be ADDED to our list, write those in the text entry box. [ETA: THAT MEANS DON'T PUT DOWN PAIRINGS THAT ARE ALREADY ON OUR LIST.] If there are any pairings you feel need to be REMOVED from our list and have not been discussed in this post, please LEAVE A COMMENT.

Thanks for your help! :)



[Poll #1415120]



ETA: The poll has been fixed. ;)

Comments

[coffee-n-cocoa.livejournal.com]

I edit a Neville-centric newsletter, and out of curiosity's sake I went back over all issues from the beginning of this year to see how many Neville/Ginny and Neville/Luna fics/ficlets/drabbles there were.

Neville/Ginny - 12. However, fully half of those were either written by me or written for me, either as a response to a drabble/ficlet prompt or as a giftfic in an exchange. Take those away, and there are six N/G fics in six months.

Neville/Luna - 11, none of which were written by me. Several were written by one author, though.

Compare that to Neville/Draco, which is commonly considered a rarepair. In the past six months, there have been 30 fics/ficlets/drabbles written featuring that pairing.

[ex-absolute.livejournal.com]

Yup, I've never considered Neville/Draco a rare pair, and I think, especially now that you've brought this evidence, that it should be put on our list of not rare.

[coffee-n-cocoa.livejournal.com]

Well, in Neville/Draco's defense, I should probably add that slightly over a third of those 30 fics were by two different authors. I have noticed a definite upswing in fics with that pairing post-DH, and it's safe to say it's rapidly approaching that fuzzy middle ground where it's not a super-rare pairing, but it's not as big as, say, Harry/Ginny or Harry/Draco.

[ex-absolute.livejournal.com]

Everything is rather small when compared to the UBER BIG popular pairings, but I think D/N is big enough on the small scale to be not-rare. Or at least, I've always thought so.

But then again, as I've said, I've got a strict definition of what is rare and what isn't so...