Some shipping questions...

[raolin1 at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 29464

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., epoch2 at i... wrote:
>    Okay, if your observations are true, that leaves me wondering 
> about the couple that has got to come together. Harry and Ginny. 
> Ginny has been in awe and love with Harry from book one. If she is 
to 
> fall for "Mr. Wrong" too, would that mean that the pairing of the 
two 
> is not meant to be? 


I think that statement about Mr./Miss Wrong only applied to the three 
main characters.  But I'm still not convinced that Fleur was Ron's 
Miss Wrong.  The day Ron wakes up and realizes Hermione "is a girl" 
where his crush on her becomes painfully obvious is literally the 
same day -- in fact little more than an hour or two -- from him 
asking Fleur to the dance.  And his own account of asking Fleur 
almost seems like he doesn't know what he was doing.  Harry suggests 
that she was turning on the "veela charm" for Diggory and Ron got 
caught in the backlash.  If this is so, it actually makes *more* 
sense for Hermione to be his Miss Wrong rather than Fleur -- since he 
never really fell for Fleur; he just got caught in the supernatural 
attraction that she exuded.

My recent reread of the series, looking especially for clues as I 
was, convinced me that Hermione could just as easily fall for Harry 
as for Ron as well.  If anything, I think there are *more* clues in 
that direction, although it's a muddy guess at best even so.  In this 
case, Ron's Miss Right -- if he's even met her at all -- is a 
complete mystery.  Padma Parvati?  Not likely.

Joshua Dyal