SHIP: Evidence in GoF (from the main list)

[cassandraclaire at mail.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., naama_gat at h... wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Ebony AKA AngieJ" <ebonyink at h...> 
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I still think the "dedicated" shippers on list, with a few 
> > exceptions, are that way because of personality types and life 
> > experience.
> > 
> I agree. I was fascinated just now reading the "what made me a 
> shipper" posts by H/H-ers - they have the exact opposite 
impressions 
> that I do. I just can't see Harry and Hermione together - it feels 
> all wrong (I think you used this same phrase to describe how 
coupling 
> Ron and Hermione is to you - or was it Penny?). OTOH, Ron and 
> Hermione just click really well for me. And - this is the place to 
> say it without having to back it up with evidence - I get the same 
> "click" feeling regarding Harry and Ginny. For other people H/G 
> causes a gag reaction. It's as if we're two groups of people, each 
of 
> which is colour blind to colours the other group can see.
> 
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Mmm. I agree. It has a lot to do with feelings and instinct. Even if 
the series winds up R/H (which I've never said was impossible, only 
that I don't see it as an inevitable outcome, that there's textual 
support for H/H too, and that I *prefer* H/H) I don't think one could 
say I'd be "converted." I'll just file HP alongside Louisa May Alcott 
in my list of books that I love despite the fact that I hate the 
pairing therein with a violent passion.

H/G is a bit different. It really, really, really doesn't click at 
all for me right now, but that's because all I can see that it is, is 
Ginny's crush on a sort of imaginary Harry on one side, and Harry's 
patient toleration of her on the other. There's no indication 
anywhere that he even likes her company or would notice or care if 
she suddenly transferred to another school, never to return. (You 
can't say that about Harry and Hermione...he *does* love Hermione as 
a friend, and would certainly miss her if she disappeared and never 
came back.) 
To me, it's like pairing up Harry and Colin Creevey. The power 
imbalance in the relationship is just stunning and to my mind, 
totally unworkable. From a literary standpoint it's also unworkable --
- as a writer, you don't pair up your hero with a completely 
undeveloped character. R/H makes a lot more sense on that score; at 
least there's an obvious bond there between Ron and Hermione, and 
either of them would miss the other were they to vanish off the face 
of the planet; also they are equally developed characters. I don't 
like it, but I can *see* it, I just can't see H/G at all unless JKR 
punches up her character a great deal. And I'm not saying she won't; 
if she does, then that's a whole different ballgame.

Cassie