Scorbus

English Etymology en Scorpius Albus. Proper noun - en fandom slang The en ship fandomnoun of characters Scorpius Malfoy and Albus Potter Albus Potter of the Harry Potter Harry Potter franchise. en Ilana Masad Harry Potter and the Possible Queerbaiting: why fans are mad over a lack of gay romance https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/aug/16/harry-potter-possible-example-queerbaiting-cursed-child 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20261024004649/https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/aug/16/harry-potter-possible-example-queerbaiting-cursed-child 24 October 2026 en 2018 Amanda Firestone; Leisa A. Clark Emily E. Roach Harry Potter and the Cursed Closet: Queerbaiting, Slash Shipping and The Cursed Child Harry Potter and Convergence Culture: Essays on Fandom and the Expanding Potterverse https://www.google.com/books/edition/Harry_Potter_and_Convergence_Culture/K1NLDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Scorbus%22+fanfic&pg=PT145 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. en en eponyms en Harry Potter M/M ships (fandom) Ships with portmanteau names (fandom)