SHIP: Questions for R/Hers...

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 12099

Ebony wrote:

> 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.

Huh.  I'm not arguing my ship here either--I'm just musing about Ron's 
character and his and Harry's relationship.

I don't think succeeding in romance with Hermione, whether short- or 
long-term, would exactly alleviate Ron's disquietude (nice 
phrase)--although it would make his second-class status less pressing 
an issue.  That would be not because he now has something Harry 
doesn't, but because he's happy.  Success in love will make all sorts 
of unhappinesses seem unimportant.

No--the thing that would be most intolerable to Ron would be if Harry 
*wasn't* particularly interested in Hermione but Hermione was 
interested in Harry, and H/H ended up together (again, whether short- 
or long-term, it doesn't really matter--two months, even two weeks, 
can be an eternity to a friendship).  It is so galling when you are 
jealous of someone and he doesn't even *want* the things that you 
covet.  Harry doesn't want to be famous, but still, it gets him out of 
trouble with the Ministry and it gets him dates (which he also doesn't 
want).  He doesn't want to have his name come out of the Goblet, and I 
think Ron, on the deepest level, knows that very well, but still, it 
gets him the fame that Ron envies.

So I'm thinking that for Ron, what would be worse than Harry falling 
in love with Hermione, asking her out, and succeeding, would be Harry 
being indifferent to Hermione, but her asking him out and succeeding. 
 That's what's so misery-inducing about HGTG for me.  And if Harry and 
Hermione did get together, this is how it would likely be, IMO, 
because IMO Harry has zero romantic interest in Hermione right now.  
That could change in a single chapter, but there would still be that 
resentment from Ron:  I liked her first, and nothing ever came of it, 
and damn it, Harry just sails in and says "ooh, that would be nice," 
and love falls into his lap.  Just like the invisibility cloak, just 
like the Firebolt, just like the Triwizard tournament . . . so go the 
workings of the irrational jealous mind.

Does this make sense?

Amy Z

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Harry liked this clock.  It was completely
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