My SHIP is sinking...

[Katze]

First...I'm sending this to the OT list because I'm more talking about
fanfics than I am canon. 

Up front, I'll tell you that I used to be a R/Hr shipper, and a
Harry/?-not-Ginny shipper.

I dare say that my original idea of an Hr/R pairing is beginning to
wane, and it's all due to the fanfics I've started to read. I'm now
finding that I'm ever so slowly becoming a R/death-or-? shipper (which
doesn't bode well for Ron's fate), Hr/H shipper, and even a D/G shipper
(Draco will have to clean up his act first though). 

After reading various fanfics, I've found a very strange pattern occur
is fics that end up H/Hr.  It seems that the impulse reaction is to pair
Ron and Hermione, and Harry with either Ginny or x (I won't read fics
where he's dead). What disturbs me is that Ron is either made to be the
bad guy/bad husband, or he is killed off in order to make the
Harry/Hermione happen. Why is this?

Knut for your thoughts?
-Katze