Darren Criss and Matt Lang talking about fanfic, ships, and slash.

Darren Criss: I think one of the main things [that inspired AVPM] was the Hermione/Draco thing, that was probably one of the planning seeds, I think for—
Matt Lang: Yea, yea. We always figured Draco had a crush on Hermione, and I guess that—I didn't know this, but apparently there's a whole community of—
Interviewer: Yea, it's quite a popular ship in the fandom. There are a lot of fanfics about it.
Darren: Oh we've, we've discovered.
Matt: If a week ago, I would've had no idea what you were talking about. If you said ship--
Darren: Ship, fanfic, or, um what else? Sla—slash?...
Matt: I had no idea what a ship was.
Darren: Yea. Yea, we always tell people, like, when they're, like— You know at first people were like, 'I ship Voldemort and Quirrel,' [we were] like, 'No, don't do that! You can't ship human beings, that's unhealthy.'
Matt: Put 'em in a box on a boat. Like, watch out, Joe [Walker]!
Darren: Yea, we were like, 'Joe, Brian [Rosenthal], don't get on any boats. If anyone tries to put you on a vessel, don't do it!'
Matt: Somebody's gonna try to ship you somewhere.
Darren: As well as these slash things! People were like, 'I'm gonna slash these guys!' but oh my god, that's even scarier than the boat! Stay away from, stay away from slashers!