(SHIP FF SLASH) Ron/Harry; Draco/Ginny

[Ebony Elizabeth Thomas]

No: HPFGUIDX 11663

Simon Biber wrote:

>I'd have to say I'm more attracted to buddy pairings. Somewhat like Ebony 
>(hope I have the right person) here on this list said referring to He/Ro, I 
>just can't imagine a relationship built on antagonism and fights.

Yes, I did refer to "the other R/H".  ;-)  While it's not my primary ship 
(and would negate that ship), I think it would be a neat relationship.  
Rhysenn, a slash author who *loves* Draco wrote the best Ron/Harry story 
I've ever read, "The Mirror Never Lies".

Realize that I'm a self-proclaimed incurable romantic... so sadomasochism 
(sp?) holds little to no appeal for me.  Neither does bickering.  My family 
is full of relatively tranquil marriages, and my (?) boyfriend and I rarely 
fight.

Which is why I'm so antagonistic against the het R/H.  My high school 
sweetheart and I were Hermione and Ron all over again and at almost their 
same ages.  I was the know-it-all brain, he was the insecure jokester who 
felt a little insecure about his older SuperBrother's shadow--his brother 
was a Cornell student (which is a huge deal to inner-city parents) and is 
now a veternarian (another big deal).  My ex always felt insecure, and it 
got on my last nerve.

We'd fight like cats and dogs, then go cool off, then something would bring 
us together again, then we'd make up heatedly, then we'd remember the real 
world (parents, school, work), then we'd drift apart again and fight.  Even 
years later, now that we've been the best of friends, we *still* go through 
that cycle.  Some may thrive on that sort of roller coaster, but this 
Hermione-type *can't* live that way.  I can only imagine what might have 
happened had I stayed with him.

I *am* a little hypocritical... of late I have been reading and writing 
(het) D/G, which is a ship of opposites if you ever saw one and only works 
if one and preferably both are OOC.  However, even if Draco and Ginny are 
improbable in canon, I can't see them engaging in an effective debate.  
Anything close to their canonical selves--Draco would say something cutting, 
and Ginny would cry.  Of course, this is canon Draco and canon Ginny... 
fanfic extrapolation might derive something entirely different.

I don't see Ginny as being nearly as argumentative as Hermione.  Much as I 
adore her character, Hermione's problem (in canon) is that she thinks that 
because she's usually right, she sincerely is starting to believe that she's 
always right.  Not so, dear Hermione.  :::ducks away from Penny:::

As Ginny's canonical self is mostly shadows and (IMHO) Draco is a 
caricature, I don't have qualms about warping their future selves at all.  
'Sides, the incurable romantic adores the imagery.  Remember this Robert 
Frost poem?

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
>From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

Very different sentiment, same vivid imagery of opposites.  That, not the 
het D/H (much as I like D/H fics) is the Romeo and Juliet-like ship.  
Granger's parents aren't effective as Capulets.  Ginny's Weasley brothers 
are very sufficient in that role.  And Lucius (if alive) would be a much 
nastier Lord Montague.

--Ebony (who can't wait to read Pippin's planned HP adaptation of "The 
Tempest)


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Ebony AKA AngieJ
(H/H Special Agent, First Class)

"'We start by recruiting members,' said Hermione happily.  'I thought two 
Sickles to join--that buys a badge--and the proceeds can fund our leaflet 
campaign.  You're treasurer, Ron--I've got you a collecting tin 
upstairs--and Harry, you're secretary, so you might want to write down 
everything I'm saying now, as a record of our first meeting.'

"There was a pause in which Hermione beamed at the pair of them, and Harry 
sat, torn between exasperation at Hermione and amusement at the look on 
Ron's face."

--from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, p. 225, 1st Amer. ed.

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