SHIP: Question for shippers

[Joanne Collins]

No: HPFGUIDX 13370

>Does everyone, H/H shippers, R/H shippers, no-shippers, H/G shippers, D/H
shippers etc. etc. all think that it's completely ovious that Ron likes
Hermione?  

Hmmm, well, I'm sure Ron likes Hermione. They're friends. And that's
exactly how I see that relationship. I also see Harry and Hermione as
friends. This isn't because I'm a slash fan, but more due to the ages of
the characters and their circumstances.

Harry's been neglected and non-physically abused for years, and I think
that he would latch on very tightly to the people who showed the slightest
sign of caring for him, but for now, and I think for a long time, they
won't be seen as romantic possibilities, but the love and caring he's
needed all his life.

One thing that kind of puzzles me, and I really hope gets some page time in
the future books, is that Harry seems to have adjusted awfully well,
awfully quickly (relatively speaking) to being at Hogwarts and being, for
lack of a better word, free. I can understand that at first it would be
very liberating (again, for lack of a better word) to be taken away from
all that and put into a place where he's accepted and loved, but still, I
think there are very deep scars (and I don't mean the one from Voldemort)
that we haven't touched the surface of.

As for shipping...I don't really see Harry, Ron or Hermione as having a
relationship yet. They are only fourteen, and they may be looking (like
Harry was at Cho in GoF), but they wouldn't really be doing more yet. I
think I personally need to see them as a little older before I can judge
who would go well with whom.

However, for older characters, I'm very convinced of the Remus/Sirius
relationship in slash.

Joanne, who would go for Bill Weasley herself. Damn...another crush on a
literary character. Oh, well.