Why Hermione Doesn't Like Ron

[cassandraclaire73 at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 2338

I know I'm running the risk of a *me too* post here, but...> 
> 
> > She is QUITE annoyed when he succumbs to the Fleur/veela allure.

> She's just annoyed because Ron is exhibiting rather boorish typical
> adolescent boy behavior.  She'd have the same response if she saw
> Neville swooning over Fleur.  She's furious in a general feminist 
sort of way.  IMO, this is not necessarily personal.

I agree. It's Harry she yanks back into his chair during the World 
Quidditch cup when the veela induce him to try to jump out, not Ron. 
She looks furious after the second task when Fleur kisses Ron--and 
Harry. I'm not using this as evidence to bolster any particular 
theory that she likes Harry, just that she she has a tendency to get 
annoyed when either of her two best friends, who happen to be male, 
exhibit typical adolescent boy behavior around Fleur. 

> 
> > Harry cares for Hermione as a good friend, but it's
> > his "wheezy" who he would miss the most.
> 
> I will NEVER buy the argument that Harry cares for Ron more than
> Hermione.  

Me neither. (There, that wasn't a 'me too'! that was a 'me neither!')
I will certainly buy that Harry appreciates Ron and Hermione in 
different ways, but not that he cares for one of them more than the 
other. That would invalidate, in my opinion, what we know of their 
friendship.
> 
> > Ron and Hermione have always spatted in the tradition of 
adolescent crushes
> 
> I've never understood why this is supposed to indicate that they 
will  have the perfect romantic relationship.  Those "cute endearing 
little  spats" could turn into some very ugly & bitter arguments that 
won't be  the least bit cute when Ron's insecurities & jealousies are 
triggered by  Hermione's successes.

They aren't even all that cute and endearing at the moment. At one 
point in GoF, Harry takes refuge in the empty owlery just to get away 
from Ron and Hermione's sniping. To me, that just sounds depressing 
and is an indicator of why their relationship wouldn't work. I stick 
to my original point that if a Ron/Hermione relationship is ever 
going to succeed, Ron needs to be given some area in which he can 
excel, stand out, and feel proud first. Be it Quidditch or chess (as 
Peg and I both suggested earlier); it hardly matters. At the moment 
he's a tightly-wound ball of insecurities living in the shadow of his 
famous brothers and friend. A girlfriend who is brilliant, sucessful, 
and Head Girl (just guessing here)would just compound the problem.

cassie