SHIP: Why Ron is wrong for Hermione; [FF fragment]

[Jim Ferer <jferer@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48765

Laura:"But they don't seem to enjoy their respective roles with each
other in this plot.  A point is often made of Hermione and Ron
bickering, but what about Harry and Hermione?  Hermione, with her
intellect and logic, is constantly telling Harry to be more careful.
She bosses him around, lectures him on his actions, and rolls her eyes
incredulously when he (or Ron, for that matter) can't see the
"obvious" solution to the problem."

I can only say I think you make it sound worse than it is.  If she is
in fact Harry's "coach," for want of a better word, than it's her role
to chivvy him, and he's bound not to like it a lot of the time; but I
don't think that affects their long-term feelings for each other. I
know couples that relate in ways not unlike that that are successful.

But my original premise was *not* Why Harry and Hermione are Right
Together, but Why Ron Isn't Right for Hermione in the Long Term.  They
all might end up with completely diffferent people.

THOSE are the relationships that are difficult. Harry, Ron, and
Hermione have just been off saving the world for seven years (if they
live that long by the end), an incredibly intense experience, and
someone else is going to get into that circle? How could anybody else
understand them? 
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Cho waved Hermione over to her table. "Thanks for coming, Hermione, I
know I just called... let's order."

Hermione took a sip and looked at Cho. "How are you and Harry doing in
your new house? You know, you've been in it a month and I haven't seen
it?"

"Oh, fine, but it's so much work, you know how it is, you've got to
come see..." Cho didn't finish. "Hermione, can you come see Harry? I'm
worried."

"what is it?"

"Yesterday I couldn't find him for an hour, and then I went in the
garage, and there he was...sitting on the floor by the boxes. I
thought he was unpacking, but he was just sitting there looking at
this picture. The Four Champions, you know? And he didn't hear me
until I shook him, and he just looked at me like I wasn't there, his
face, I can't forget it, and you know what he said? 'The only one.
See? I'm the only one. They're all dead but me. You lost Cedric, and
you know why? Because we were friends. How many more?' "

Hermione looked down at her plate. "Do the dreams still wake him up?"

Cho stared. "How do you know that? I thought you and he never..."

Hermione looked up. "I still have mine."