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

[pippin_999 <foxmoth@qnet.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48784

Jim said

>>THOSE are the relationships that are difficult. Harry, Ron, and
Hermione have just been off saving the world for seven years (if 
theylive that long by the end), an incredibly intense experience, 
andsomeone else is going to get into that circle? How could 
anybody elseunderstand them? <<


This seems to me a case of imaginary sequel contamination.  
Harry has been peeled off from the Trio for every one of his 
harrowing encounters with the Dark Side. Maybe that will change 
in subsequent books, but so far Ron and Hermione know no 
more about what happened in the Graveyard et al than Harry 
chose to tell them. *They weren't there.*

Harry doesn't have nightmares about being chased by giant 
chessmen or about the Dementors or the basilisk. He has 
nightmares about  *Voldemort*.  If anyone shares that 
experience it's  Ginny and Cho. They are the ones who know 
what it is to lose a part of themselves to the Dark Lord. I think
it's very significant that Harry sees Ginny and Cho  weeping 
uncontrollably, just as Harry himself wishes he could.  

Hermione, for all her valiant courage, has not yet faced that 
ordeal. 

Pippin