Scorbus
English
Etymology
Blend of Scorpius + Albus.
Proper noun
Scorbus (uncountable)
- (fandom slang) The ship of characters Scorpius Malfoy and Albus Potter of the Harry Potter franchise.
- 2016, Ilana Masad, "Harry Potter and the Possible Queerbaiting: why fans are mad over a lack of gay romance", The Guardian, 16 August 2016:
- Because of this, some commentators are suspicious that the appetite for a Scorbus romance was not unknown to those catering to it.
- 2018, Emily E. Roach, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Closet: Queerbaiting, Slash Shipping and The Cursed Child", in Harry Potter and Convergence Culture: Essays on Fandom and the Expanding Potterverse (eds. Amanda Firestone & Leisa A. Clark), page 133:
- For Harry Potter fandom, the idea of a romantic relationship (or ship) between Albus/Scorpius or "Scorbus," the ship's portmanteau, is nothing new.
- 2019, Beatriz Brito do Nascimento, "No heteros in this heterotopia: Harry Potter slash fanfiction as heterotopian space", dissertation submitted to the University of Porto, page 98:
- For years, Scorbus fans had almost no canonical information with which to base their fan works, therefore fics varied wildly in characterisation.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Scorbus.
- 2016, Ilana Masad, "Harry Potter and the Possible Queerbaiting: why fans are mad over a lack of gay romance", The Guardian, 16 August 2016: