SHIP: Questions...

[heidi.h.tandy.c92 at alumni.upenn.edu]

No: HPFGUIDX 12453

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., sadie_row at h... wrote:
> 
> I'm curious (this is for you H/Her's out there). Would
> Draco/Hermione 
> be preferable over Ron/Hermione? This is, of course, if you
> couldn't 
> have Harry/Hermione. (sorry about all of the ?/?'s)
> 
Oh, yes, but only if Draco becomes un-evil (or, in the alternative, 
if both of them turn out evil, but I think the likelihood of Evil!
Hermione is up there (or is it "down there") with Evil!Harry) (note: 
I did not say that evil!ron is unlikely...and I did not say draco had 
to be "nice")

As Ebony said, my minor ship is D/Herm (and my slash ship is 
Draco/Harry (harry/ron is something I find a little silly, but that's 
just me)) - and I'm in the middle of creating a fanfic where Draco 
is, throughout canon and beyond, not as evil as Harry seems to think. 
But don't ask ebony about the next chapter - she's not allowed to say 
yet! (it's at http://www.fanfiction.net/index.fic/index.fic?
action=story-read&storyid=96654 if you want to see it) 
I don't know why I don't like Ron as much as I should - on paper, 
he's a pretty good guy, very loyal, very good at chess - and I don't 
have anything against redheads, being slightly auburn myself. It's 
just that something about him just catches me in the wrong way when I 
try to visualize him as someone's life partner. 
All you sane people are saying, "this girl thinks Draco is more 
marriage material than sweet, earnest Ron Weasley? Is she nuts?" and 
the answer is, "yeah, I think there's more potential for hermione to 
have a vibrant yet mutually understanding, passionate yet not 
unnecessarily argumentative relationship with Draco than with Ron - 
and I thought that even before reading the "debate" sequence of TiP...