[HPforGrownups] Ship: H/H vs. R/H

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No: HPFGUIDX 48620

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          From: samnjodie <englishatjodie at hotmail.com>
[mailto:englishatjodie at hotmail.com]
          I'm new and I've just read over the summary of the debate i.e. who
          will end up with whom.  Frankly, I think it's obvious who Harry
will
          end up with, or at least who he wants to end up with (Cho).

  I happen to disagree here.  Cho is just a crush at the moment.  Plus, Cho
was Cedric's girlfriend.  Harry definitely won't be able to get that out of
his mind whenever he's with Cho.  He'll remember Cedric, then his recent
encounter with Voldemort, it'll just be too painful for him.

  From: samnjodie <englishatjodie at hotmail.com>
[mailto:englishatjodie at hotmail.com]
  I think, though, that the two of them are more like a brother and a
  sister to one another then they are like a couple.  They are too
  comfortable with one another, and with their feelings for one
  another. It could be argued that their lack of insecurity is a point
  towards a relationship them, but anyone posing that argument would be
  forgetting what it's like to be a teenager.   By the end of the
  goblet of fire they are each just finishing puberty.

   Okay, now I really disagree with this.  Not because I'm an H/Hr, but
because of the fact that you cannot complete puberty in just one or two
years.  JKR has said herself (I don't know the actual quote so I'm just
paraphrasing here before anyone jumps on me) that horomones will be in
overdrive in OotP.  IMO, I see R/Hr as more like sister and brother.  Both
Ron and Hermione are mean to each other and neither care if the other gets
hurt, only people I know that are like this are siblings.  With siblings,
they can be as mean as they want to be to the other sibling in private
because deep down they know that the other sibling doesn't mean it.  Yet, at
the same time defend to them death in public.

  What amazes me is that a lot of R/Hr's, sorry to be generalizing, tend to
expect Harry to exhibit the same actions that Ron has shown when he likes a
girl.  Ron is the jealous type, so we can expect him to react that way.
Harry is definitely not the jealous type, so why expect him to have the same
actions like Ron.

  Sara


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