Scorbus

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Blend of Scorpius +‎ Albus.

Proper noun[edit]

Scorbus (uncountable)

  1. (fandom slang) The ship of characters Scorpius Malfoy and Albus Potter of the Harry Potter franchise.
    • 2016 August 16, Ilana Masad, “Harry Potter and the Possible Queerbaiting: why fans are mad over a lack of gay romance”, in The Guardian:
      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 Amanda Firestone, Leisa A. Clark, editors, Harry Potter and Convergence Culture: Essays on Fandom and the Expanding Potterverse‎[1], 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.
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