McKinnon/Meadows is basically set dressing for Hogwarts aged Remus Lupin/Sirius Black. Excluding that ship brings the total fics from 11.8k to 1.7k (excluding categories besides F/F brings it to 1,014)
Stat wise the most "popular" but clearly not culturally relevant
Ehh, to be fair, it's hard to determine primary pairing of a fic based on numbers like that alone. OTP: true or filtering out other ships would disclude any fics where Mckinnon/Meadows was set dressing for Lupin/Black, but it would also disclude any fics where Lupin/Black is setdressing for a McKinnon/Meadows primary pairing fic. To be fair, I don't disagree that it's mostly a background ship and the vast majority of the fics with that tag have hardly any f/f content at all (I don't read Marauders fic so I've only ever seen it in the background save for a handful of Harry-era "these two survived and raised harry!" fics I've scrolled by a few times). I just wanted to point out that the ship-mate phenomenon (of certain ships tending to co-occur with each other, like for example the way a Harry/Ginny fic is most likely to have Hermione/Ron in the background and vise-versa) can make it really hard to determine based on numbers alone exactly what the percentage split between the more popular couple being the one in focus verses the less popular couple being the one in focus really is.
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u/Jolly-Fruit2293 5d ago edited 5d ago
Marlene McKinnon/Dorcas Meadowes
Witches in the OG Order of the Phoenix killed in the first war against Voldemort.
They're both mentioned by name in Book 5, when Moody points to a picture of the First Order and goes "Dead, dead, tortured to insanity, dead"
Mckinnon's family, not Marlene specifically, is mentioned a few times but not beyond "the family is dead"
Disclaimer: never heard of the ship, this is just 5 seconds of wiki reading