D/G Fire and Ice/slightly OT/ Ron in fanfic land

[Cassandra Claire]

No: HPFGUIDX 9915

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer 

Flourish wrote:
HA! J.K. Rowling herself is much more R/H than I. I mean, come on! 
You've got the hugs. You've got the rows about Krum. Harry's off 
mooning after Cho... How can you still hang on? ::weeps:: I am weak. 
I submit to the greatness of J.K. without question. Hermione and Ron 
belong together." 

She never said Hermione and Ron belong together. She's never so much 
as said Ron will survive Book 5! *chokes quietly to self* Oh, dear, 
is the ship discussion hoving into view again? Isn't there some sort 
of FAQ about this with the different arguements for H/H, R/H, H/D and 
Harry/Hedwig being presented? Penny...?


<pennylin at s...> wrote:
"As Lori mentioned on PoU just yesterday, her fanfic Hermione 
believes that she and Ron wouldn't have lasted and that she would 
have ended up with Harry anyway.  Lori went on to note that his death 
may have delayed H&H's involvement in some ways as well.  This is, of 
course, all within the PoU universe.  I maintain that it's perfectly 
plausible to write a fanfic where H&H are happily involved that 
doesn't also require Ron to be dead, ignored, evil or anything of 
that nature.  I'd like to take a stab at it  someday.  I think it can 
be done."

Hey! My Ron is not dead, ignored or evil. Okay, he wasn't in the 
first series much *looks guilty * more because I find him hard to 
write than anything else. But he's quite central to DS. I realize now 
I should have joined HP4GU before writing my story instead of the 
other way around. Despite having read GoF 5 times, I simply 
thought "Oh, well Ron likes Hermione. She doesn't seem to like him 
back all that much. They could date for a while, then he'll get over 
it. Not a big deal." Had I been on HP4GU, I would have realized that 
them is fightin' words. 
But honestly, I find the fanfictions where Ron, upon discovering that 
Hermione is dating Harry or Draco or what have you, is so distraught 
that he flings himself off Gryffindor Tower to a horrid death below 
(and there are MANY), to be far more out of character for Ron than 
for him to have dated Hermione and moved on. Much has been made of 
his insecurity on this list, and I do believe he's insecure, by his 
grasp on self-worth is not *that* tenuous.

* my 2 knutes! *

Cassie