OBHWF

English

Etymology

Initialism of One Big Happy Weasley Family, since the ship results in two of the main characters in the series, Harry Potter and Hermione Granger, ending up with two of the seven Weasley children.

Proper noun

OBHWF

1. (fandom slang) The double ship of Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley and Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley from the Harry Potter series.
   • 2003 June 30, Tennant Stuart, “Re: A couple of questions about book 5.”, in alt.fan.harry-potter‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Sadly for you & other OBHWF fans, Ginny is now over Harry, and is on her second boyfriend, while Luna Lovegood has the hots for Ron.

   • 2005 July 24, Egla Bob, “Re: What Does Hermione See in Ron?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter‎^[2] (Usenet):

     Because JKR ships OBHWF that's why. The way Hermione has been written shows us she's much more and^[sic] equal and compatible with Harry though.

   • 2008 September 9, Louis Epstein, “Re: Cho Chang not Ginny”, in alt.fan.harry-potter‎^[3] (Usenet):

     Those of us who didn't want OBHWF felt that Rowling was making a mistake, not that she was being misleading.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:OBHWF.