[HPforGrownups] Re: "Fanfic Tangent" (ship warning)

[Kathleen Kelly MacMillan]

No: HPFGUIDX 10023

OK, I just realized that I already responded to some of Ebony's points from a 
previous post (sorry I didn't credit you Ebony!), but I missed some, so here 
goes:

>As I've said, we H/Hers are steeling ourselves for impending doom...
>oh, I mean, the Inevitable R/H Pairing.  *But*... JKR has thrown me
>for a loop before.  I hope that if Book 5 has any hint of romance at
>all, she doesn't go for the obvious.  I hope she uses it as an
>opportunity to shock our socks off.  Just my opinion.

Actually, IMO, pairing Harry and Hermione would be the easy way out.  "The 
Hero Gets the Girl" and all that.  Plus, H/H is just too sappy for me.  
There's no *spark* to it.  It's just less interesting, to me anyway.

>Ron is a fun character to write!  I think that of the Three, he's the
>most people-centered.

I agree with you on this! (for once!)  Just like in GoF, when Harry and Ron 
were fighting, Ron was the one who still got to be friends with Dean and 
Seamus and all the others and Harry was the one left out.  Granted, it was 
partially becuase of his brothers, but Ron has also spent more time being 
friends with the others.  (Of course, being from a large family probably gives 
you better interpersonal skills that being locked in the cupboard under the 
stairs!)

>The more I write (I've got a couple of projects in the works), the
>more I'm convinced of my ship preference.

Same here, but different ship.  (;


>She
>knows that they both take her for granted.  Excuse my frankness, she
>resents the hell out of that. I rather think she'd also resent the
>conclusion being drawn that if Ron likes her, she should just fall
>into his arms.

I actually agree with this too!  (And this is one of the things I am trying to 
show in my story.)  And that, I think, is exactly why she won't tell Ron that 
she likes him.

>Let's wait to see what Hermione thinks in canon.  For all we know,
>she might very wisely conclude that she'd rather keep her friendships
>the way they are... and continue to correspond with Viktor Krum.

Yeah, maybe, but that'd be so boring!

>Of course, my take on the interpersonal dynamics of the Trio at the
>end of GoF is summed up in a fic that Kathy recommended to me and
>here, "Friend Enough?" by Parker.  It's on my favorites page, and
>I've been singing the praises of this author's three fics for the
>past week.  (Kathy, to quote PoU, "you should know better than to
>give me such delicious leverage."  ;-))

Well, as I said, I recommended it even though I don't *agree* with it.  I just 
really like anything that deals with Ron effectively, and that one does.  (I 
happen to think that the main thrust of that story, Hermione realizing her 
feelings for Harry while he is competing in the 3rd Task, has no real evidence 
in the canon.  Sorry, Parker!)  But it's still a very good fic.  If I only 
read R/H fics, I would never have enough to hold me over until Book 5, 
unfortunately.  So I have to branch out a little! :)

>--Ebony (sailing away merrily down the shipper stream on the SS H/H)

Kathy
AKA Elanor Gamgee
waving from the deck of the Good Ship R/H