My SHIP is sinking...

[ftah3]

pippin wrote:
> 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.

Oh, fie.  This is fanfic, after all!  Ron has shown himself to be 
well able to both get himself into trouble and also to get out of 
it.  He's shown a heroic side (let's himself be blonked on the head 
in the first book For The Cause).  He's shown that he's the keeper of 
multitudes of emotions, including loyalty, angst, love, anger, hate, 
hot-headedness, fair-mindedness, etc etc.  Imho, given all this, he's 
a very good candidate for a fanfictional hero who, thanks to the 
adoration of the fanfic writer, gets to be in the spotlight and 
really show his stuff.  I.e., Hero Harry isn't around, but Ron still 
ends up in the thick of things and Saves the Day!  Gets the Girl 
(whichever one)! Goes on to become a Famous Auror, which is Handy, 
because while Harry defeated Voldemort (that's speculation there, 
folks, for the sake of discussion), there are still Bad Guys out 
there, and in fact a few ambitious former Death Eaters raise a 
guerrilla-like army of Vampires and other such Nasties, and Ron 
Weasley, auror extraordinaire (think crusty but suave detective a la 
a Humphrey Bogart character or possibly even Indiana Jones), must go 
on a secret mission to....

Hm, what started out as tongue-in-cheek has become rather fun.  Go 
Ron!  Woo!

> Of course I think Hermione and Ron are going to be a great 
> couple, but to write about them you have to think about what it's 
> really like to love somebody and not about that wonderful 
> nebulous "being in love" which is the stuff of romance novels 
> and bathtub fantasy.

Eh?  Considering (arguable) implications of Ron's & Hermione's 
simmering and as yet unrequited lurve for each other, couldn't you 
just see them falling passionately into each others' arms?

[cue melodrama]

"Hermione, I -- I'm sorry.  I can't do this any more."

"What, Ron?" A tremor of hope ran through Hermione, warming her as 
the romantic fire in the fireplace of the conveniently empty ski 
lodge decorated with tactfully placed bear skins and oddly sourceless 
but usefully placed mood lights could not.  "...please, you can tell 
me."

The snow storm, in which all of the other vacationers were handily 
lost at the moment (hence the emptiness of the lodge), battered the 
windows, raging like the tumultous emotions gripping Ron's heart.  He 
steeled himself; he *had* to tell her, and damn the consequences!

"I know you love Harry, Hermione, but I won't hide the way I feel 
anymore.  I...I love you!"

Hermione gasped.  It was what she hoped all along!  Her dream come 
true!  

Ron could see the feelings writ clear on Hermione's face, and he 
thought, can it be?  Can it truly be?  But then a shadow darkened his 
beloved's exquisite features.

"You complete and utter git!  Have you waited all this time to tell 
me this because you thought I loved *Harry*?"  She socked him soundly 
on the shoulder.  "That's so you, Ron.  Good thing I love you as 
well, or you'd never live it down."

They fell passionately into each other's embrace and snogged in front 
of the fire on a handy bear skin....

[uncue melodrama]

See?  Could happen.  [Incidentally, any similarity of the above to 
actual existing fanfiction is purely coincidental, because the only 
HP fanfic I've read is John's "Keeper's Secret" (want warm fuzzies? 
it's an Oliver/Percy fic with warm fuzzies galore! *thumbs up*) so 
I've not read any Ron/Hermy off which to have plagiarized.]

Mahoney
reeeeeeeeeally glad it's Friday and I don't have to come back to work 
til next Wednesday