It is my considered opinion, that if the reader can identify which character the author hates (not the narrator, the author), they're DOIN IT RONG.

Consuela is me. Nothing takes me out of the story faster than obviously visible author hatred toward a character, unless the character has zero redeeming values in canon. I don't like it even if I myself don't think much of the character. Particularly egregious is when an author demonizes a character who (by canon or by being fandom's favoured alterna-ship) stands in the way of her pairing, and it's super obvious that the hatred is born out of ship-wankage. Ugh.

Oh yeah. I mean, Lisa may not be the brightest bulb on the tree (after the first time Dean's enemies invaded my house, I'd have relocated myself and my kid to Vatican City or a cabin on one of those dry salt lake beds in Utah instead of taking a que sera, sera approach to home security), but she's always been depicted in the show as a good person and generally far more understanding of Dean's issues than you'd expect the average person to be.

How prevalent is Snape/Hermione is a pairing? I just saw this pic titled '5 Points To Gryffindor' (no nudity or compromising posing, but definite sexual implications). I'd never thought of it before--in my head he's antagonistic to all the kids, but not enough to her to even get into Foe Yay.

Of course, just about every pairing has a supporter somewhere, but I was just wondering about how much subtext I might have missed...

It's pretty popular, if not as popular as Harry/Draco, or even Harry/Snape, I think. I've seen it a fair amount, and I'm not exactly part of the fandom.

Huh. Am I missing something in their canon interaction, or is it just one of those things that caught hold of fandom's imagination and they ran with it?

They're both smarter than the other people around them?

Oh, god, if I had sex with every someone who was the second smartest person in the room...

Well, I've found my new least favorite portmanteau.

Johnlock.

It doesn't exactly trip off the tongue, does it?

(I just realized John/Molly would be Jolly. Now I think I have to go forget that and hope to never see it in the wild.)

I'm no fan of Mystrade either.