[HPforGrownups] Re: The Kiss

[marty at martynet.org]

No: HPFGUIDX 7545


> So, in your mind, unbinding Ron was rescue enough?  He didn't need to
> take him to the surface to be sure that he'd be able to breathe when the
> 1 hr had elapsed?  I guess my point was simply that the rescue of Ron
> was incomplete at the time that Harry turned his attention to the other
> hostages.  So, in the context of a slash argument, I would have thought
> that Harry would *fully* rescue Ron before playing the noble hero.  This
> is all simply in the context of the original thread, which is that Ron
> was Harry's "thing he'd miss most," a point that was used in support of
> H/R slash relationship.  

Just to play devil's advocate: Even caring most for Ron wouldn't completely
wipe caring for anyone else out of Harry's mind.  With Ron free, Harry
can always turn and finish rescuing Ron.  That, however, wouldn't make him
stop caring about Hermione completely (or even equally -- who's to say
she wouldn't have been Harry's object if she hadn't been Viktor's?...why
is my mind now turning even more perversely toward the weird ground of
Ha/He/R? Hmmmm......), or even stop his nobler instincts about trying to 
get Gabrielle to safety as well.  Love -- real, good love, at least -- 
doesn't make you stop being who you are, or who you're destined to be, and 
it doesn't cut you off from  caring about anything else in the world.


Marty