Ron's Jealousy of Harry

[Ebony AKA AngieJ]

No: HPFGUIDX 16445

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Demelza" <muggle-reader at a...> wrote:
 
> Hermione's talk with Harry somehow deters Harry from seeking out 
Ron. > Perhaps if I put this im my penseive and look at it later I 
might be > able to figure out why this sequence of events is 
moderately  disturbing.
>

Demelza, I read your post with interest.  As I am neither a 
psychiatrist nor a scientist, you gave me insight into an 
interpretation of the Great Fight I would have never come up with on 
my own.

However, I think Occam's Razor applies here:  simple explanations are 
to be preferred over more complicated ones, and that *the explanation 
of a new phenomenon should be based on what is already known*.

Quoting from the above:  "Hermione's talk with Harry somehow deters 
Harry from seeking out Ron."  In order for your interpretation of the 
Fight to be valid, we must assume either one of two things:

1)  Hermione is being intentionally deceptive.
2)  Hermione is mentally unbalanced.

Here is where I can prove that reading of fanfic doesn't give you a 
disadvantage in interpretation.

You see, as a fanfic writer, the statement "Hermione's talk with 
Harry somehow deters Harry from seeking out Ron" made my mind RACE 
with possibilities.  A young writer on ff.net recently began a "Dark 
Hermione" fic, and I am now intrigued with the idea of extrapolating 
a malevolent or psychotic Hermione from canon... can it be done, with 
the fanon creation retaining the "spirit and soul" of JKR's Hermione 
Granger?  After all, if Draco can be redeemed, then Hermione's dark 
side can be explored there as well.

However, as a level-headed reader of canon, I find the notion of 
Option #1 or Option #2 above to be completely invalid.  You cannot 
support deception or mental imbalance on Hermione's part in that 
instance from canon beyond a reasonable doubt.  

After all is said and done, I *still* think what I always "thunk" 
about that fight.  Before becoming involved in online fandom.  Before 
writing HP fanfic or reading popular HP fanfic.  Before even meeting 
a single other HP fan over the age of 14.

Ron was wrong... and he knew it.  I can forgive him (that phrase has 
been used in at least five of the 130 unread posts this evening from 
the group), but as a reader, I can't forget what happened.

If it happened once, it can happen again.

--Ebony AKA AngieJ