Because of this, some commentators are suspicious that the appetite for a Scorbus romance was not unknown to those catering to it.
2018, Kate Leaver, The Friendship Cure: Reconnecting in the Modern World, unnumbered page:
When the book version of the script was released in 2016, readers around the world started shipping Scorpius and Albus (their shipping name is Scorbus).
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, Jennifer Duggan, "'Watch This Space': Queer Promises and Lacunae in Rowlings Harry Potter Texts, or, Harry Potter and the Curse of Queerbaiting", in Queerbaiting and Fandom: Teasing Fans Through Homoerotic Possibilities (ed. Joseph Brennan), page 103:
As Masad argues, given the immense popularity of queer interpretations of the original novels by fans prior to the publication of Cursed Child and Rowling's regular acknowledgement of fans' desire to read queerly and see LGBTQ+ characters represented in her texts, "commentators are suspicious that the the appetite for a Scorbus romance was not unknown to those catering to it."
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.
