SHIP: Questions for R/Hers...

[zsenya at sugarquill.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 12132

Ebony,
I'm not sure if I am going to make any sense here. I almost 
considered not answering this thread, as I'm pretty sure that 
anything I say will be taken out of context.  But I'll try to explain 
myself clearly.

Ebony wrote:
>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."

Well, I am, as you know, one of the biggest believers in the R/H way, 
and that has never been one of my arguments for R/H or 
for "debunking" the "HGTG" theory.  As a matter of fact, I don't 
choose to base my beliefs that JKR will make a Ron/Hermione 
relationship a sideline story on any such theory.  I also don't think 
that Harry has everything.  It's the fact that Harry is so normal 
that makes him such a likable character.

I don't see Ron/Hermione as having anything to do with Harry at all, 
to be perfectly honest.  At the moment, I think that the main reason 
that Ron likes Hermione is that he's a 14-year old boy and she 
happens to be the one person who makes his heart thump.   If Ron 
really was coveting something of Harry's, he'd be drooling all over 
Cho Chang, (even though she's not "Harry's" - I'm having a hard time 
with all of this possessiveness), Ron is aware of Harry's crush. 

The main point that you seem to be missing is that most R/H shippers 
tend to believe that there's evidence out there that Hermione likes 
Ron back.  I won't rehash all of the same arguments again (for 
example, what I like to term the "great semi-colon debate").  We 
don't see this as being about any sort of Ron/Harry competition.   If 
I saw evidence in the books that Hermione had any feelings other than 
friendship for Harry, I'd probably be climbing aboard the good ship 
H/H, but I just don't interpret the books that way.   If anything, I 
see a Ron/Hermione pairing as a benefit for Harry - I think he 
depends on them almost as one would family, and their "union" so to 
speak would solidify that family unit.   

Zsenya