***LAST UPDATED: 22 JUNE 2022***
As of the date above, there are over 377K works in the Harry Potter fandom on Archive Of Our Own (AO3), and I found a staggering 8,635+ individual ships during my search!
As you can probably imagine, it was a VERY long and tiring process to make this list. Every time I thought that I had found the last of the existing ships, there were still more to find! AO3 has WAY more ships (and far more diversity of ships) than any other site out there. But after all that work, I can confidently say that the most popular ships on AO3, according to the ship tags, are:*
#1 — Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter (58.7K)
#2 — Sirius Black/Remus Lupin (32.4K)
#3 — Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy (19.9K)
#4 — James Potter/Lily Evans Potter (19.5K)
#5 — Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley (17.5K)
#6 — Harry Potter/Severus Snape (15.3K)
#7 — Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley (14.2K)
#8 — Harry Potter/Tom Riddle | Voldemort (9.9K)
#9 — Hermione Granger/Severus Snape (6.6K)
#10 — Hermione Granger/Harry Potter (5.8K)
BONUS! Other popular ships include:*
#11 — Lucius Malfoy/Narcissa Black Malfoy (4.6K)
#12 — Scorpius Malfoy/Albus Severus Potter (4.1K)
#13 — Albus Dumbledore/Gellert Grindelwald (4.0K)
#14 — Remus Lupin/Nymphadora Tonks & Remus Lupin/Severus Snape (3.5K)
#15 — Luna Lovegood/Ginny Weasley (3.1K)
#16 — Marlene McKinnon/Dorcas Meadowes (2.9K)
#17 — Astoria Greengrass/Draco Malfoy & Harry Potter/Ron Weasley (2.8K)
#18 — Regulus Black/James Potter (2.7K)
#19 — Lily Evans Potter/Severus Snape & Seamus Finnigan/Dean Thomas (2.2K)
#20 — Arthur Weasley/Molly Weasley (2.0K)
*(excluding Character/OC ships (e.g. Draco/OC), Fantastic Beasts ships (e.g. Newtina), and object/crack ships (e.g. Drapple))
Thoughts? Want to know where your favorite ship lies on AO3 if it's not in the top 20? Have some ~feelings~ about this data? Let me know in the comments!
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