SHIP: Questions for R/Hers...

[Ebony Elizabeth Thomas]

No: HPFGUIDX 12092

This post is dedicated to the entire Mod Squad, who thought the Great 
Shipping Debate was Resting In Peace.  Cheers!

First question--

One of the top arguments that R/Hers have used in the past to debunk HGTG is 
that "Harry has everything else, so Ron deserves something that he doesn't 
have... the girl."

Validity of the above position aside... doesn't this reasoning work most 
satisfactorily if the hero actually wants the girl, and the girl (you have 
to admit the terminology involved in this position is troublesome) chooses 
the alternate hero/sidekick over him?

After all...

Ron has a lot that Harry doesn't have... red hair, height, 20/20 vision, 
formerly a rat... this list goes on a bit further, but you catch my drift.  
There is no indication thus far that Harry wants any of these things.

If Hermione also falls under this Unwanted category, I'm not sure how canon 
R/H would give Ron the satisfaction that he has something that Harry 
doesn't.  I'm not sure that even getting the girl at this point would 
completely alleviate his growing disquietude.

However...

If the H/Hers' FITD theory is *reversed* all of a sudden from

R----->He---(?)--->Ha----->C/R/no one

to a chain that is highly implausible at this point in canon--

Ha----->He----->R

...it seems as if this would satisfy the R/H argument that "Ron needs 
something that Harry doesn't have" to "Ron deserves something that Harry 
doesn't have *and wants*."

Since there is no canonical evidence whatsoever of Reversed FITD, how does 
Ron Getting Hermione (winces again at the terminology) fulfill the criteria 
set forth by R/Hers in the first place?

I'm not arguing my ship here.  Please help me understand.  And don't fear a 
trap!  Cassie's offline until at least Friday, Penny's not posting very 
much, and the other H/Hers are quiet, gentle souls.  So here I stand, all 
alone...  :::Ebony starts humming and singing:::

Also, yesterday in chat I asked the crowd what an extrapolated, paired-off 
future Ron and Hermione would talk about if they weren't arguing.  I got 
some silly responses that you'd have to check the chat transcripts for, but 
the top three answers were:  1)  Humdrum everyday things... what do all 
couples talk about?  2)  His work--her work.  3)  Talk?  They'd be too busy 
shagging.  ;o)  (Of course, all the H/H and no-shippers in the room ran away 
screaming at that point.)

I really want to make an honest attempt to understand the other PoV, but my 
brain is *refusing* to think along those lines. I need some help, please.  
As I'm on leave until next Monday, that means you guys have one week to get 
me to jump ship.  Who knows?  Perhaps I'll be traveling on the Good Ship R/H 
by March... don't look at me like that!  Stranger things have happened!

Thanks ever so much in advance,

Ebony (who, in writing Episode 7 of her soap, is going through an entire 
case of virtual Pepto)

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

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