time certainly flies :'''D I never thought i'd be into H/D much either, and in a way I still don't really ship them...i don't see any basis in canon for it (unlike with R/S!), but...at the same time it's much easier for me to accept whichever scenario or reason or AU or what have you, for them, than for R/S. probably because i'm less emotionally invested and don't have firm headcanons for what happened during lie low at lupin's or at hogwarts or during the war, but also because for H/D it's just open-ended enough that there's more room to play. :) (and some of it is definitely spite because seriously fuck that epilogue.)

volstovic cycle is just small enough that i think most of us know each other :'D though i wouldn't mind if the fandom got a renaissance and an influx of active participants. :)