Harry's Love Life

[Danemead]

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From: Danemead
Subject: Re: Harry's Love Life
Reply To: [Yahoo! #2767] Re: Harry's Love Life
Date: 6/24/00 6:09 pm  (ET)

For what it's worth, I see Ron and Hermione as the classic Spencer
Tracy-Katharine Hepburn type romance (for younger members, think Tom
Hanks and Meg Ryan in 'You've Got Mail'). The two of them start out by
irritating each other to the point of exasperation. They get on each
other's nerves. They may even hate each other at times. Which means that
they are Doomed, according to Hollywood and classic romantic tradition,
to Fall In Love.

In the fanfic "Paradigm of Uncertainty" the author makes a convincing
case for a future relationship between Harry and Hermione, but I get
the feeling that JKR doesn't intend this. Of course, I agree that they
are still too young to really be thinking about "forever" -- I see Harry
graduating and traveling (alone) to off-the-wall places to learn advanced
magic from various masters around the world, the better to fight Evil
and Corruption in the magical world. :)