SHIP: Harry, Ron and Hermione - "It's a family affair!"

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 11922

STOP PRESS: FFA attempts a serious shipping post - no poems, no parodies - everyone chokes back the boredom as he enters 'Binns' mode.

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[DISCLAIMER – I haven’t read every single shipping post - I need to see the world outside - so I apologise if the following thoughts have been proposed before.  I also pity you if you think like I do]

Not wishing to suggest that there are only two male archetypes [waves at Dave Hardenbrook and all the women on this list], but during the various discussions about Ron and Harry in canon and fanon, I’ve become increasingly sure that I’m like Ron, and not, as I’d hoped, like Harry.  I don’t share Ron’s passion for sport, but I am sarcastic and insecure and I was inclined, when younger, to be very jealous and indulge in blanking people with fuming silences.  I am also freckly and have a touch of redhead in me (in fact, I've found a picture of me aged 11 that looks uncannily like Rupert Grint in 'Joe 90' glasses).  I’m stretching it, I know.  Indulge me, please….

My reason for mentioning all that is that I’ve been told that, in relationships, I’m inclined to fall into the parent-child model, where I’m the parent, and that set me thinking of Ron as a ‘parent’ in our triumvirate….

In my view, Harry is the ‘child’ to Ron & Hermione’s ‘parents’ in many respects.  Harry came to the magical world like a newborn baby, ignorant of its wonders, while, by birth and book, respectively; Ron and Hermione became his ‘elders’, teachers and advisors.  Harry is the risk-taking teen swimming in newfound popularity, while Ron is the exasperated guide and Hermione the admonishing rulekeeper.  In Harry’s shadow, Ron could be compared with the father who lives through his son.  He watches his Quidditch matches and encourages him, despite his own lack of involvement; he experiences poverty, while Harry enjoys a wizard fortune (isn't it often the case that parents wish better for their children than they had?).  Hermione, on the other hand, is the perfect, finger wagging, nagging mother, who does everything but wipe Harry’s face with a spittled hankie. 

I could equally make a case for Hermione and Harry as the parents and Ron as the child, if I shift the emphasis to the Muggle world, but my point (I did get there eventually) is that this is a three-way relationship that engenders familial love and bonding.  My original model isn't all-encompassing and doesn’t preclude romantic links within the ‘family,’ but it is, perhaps, the foundation of the lasting, platonic friendship between these three.  Alternatively, it could also be that Harry ‘grows up’ and moves on, as many children do, and that Ron and Hermione are left to enjoy their fractious ‘marriage,’ or that we’ll witness an eye-popping ‘incestuous’ relationship between Harry and one of the other two.  

Okay, now pull me to pieces!

Neil

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