My SHIP is sinking...

[moongirlk]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
> See, Ron doesn't cut it as a romantic fantasy. Draco's got exotic 
> hair, an interesting pallor, great and likely ill-gotten wealth, 
and 
> loads of attitude. Harry's got a mysterious destiny, exotic eyes, 
> great wealth, and he's an orphan (sniff!)  Draco lives in 
> mysterious unseen Malfoy Manor. Harry is captive to the ogrelike 
> Dursleys.  Ron, the wizarding world's boy next door, lives in a 
> ramshackle house where the pipes bang, there's mouths to feed 
> and chores to do, people have jobs that aren't going anywhere 
> and nobody  appreciates him. Not much fuel for fantasy there 
> either.  And why do people write fanfic? Because they don't want 
> the fantasy to end.  But Ron is the end of the story. After he wins 
> Hermione there's nothing more to say except, "and they lived 
> happily ever after", unless you want to write about banging pipes 
> and such.

This is fascinating to me, because for me Draco's just too nasty to 
be an acceptable leading man, and Harry's too much the little boy I'd 
want to take care of for me to imagine him in a romantic role, I 
think also in part because he was introduced to us as a baby.  

Ron is the best romantic lead in my head (aside from being way too 
young, that is).  He's passionate and funny and loyal and 
imaginative.  All my favorite turnons.  It doesn't hurt that my inner 
child was in love with him from practically his first scene.  As I 
got to know him reading the books, my more rational side was even 
more pleased by the way he was so realistically characterized.  He's 
got all the right insecurities and quirks (in my opinion) for a kid 
of his age, background and situation, and he's got this great family 
(sometimes my inner child casts longing glances at his brothers even, 
but they're too old for her).

Anyway, interesting to see how the romantic lead gets cast in the 
productions of our minds, innit?

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