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

[Erica <cymru1ca@yahoo.ca>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48786

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999 <foxmoth at q...>" 
<foxmoth at q...> wrote:
> 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? <<
> 

Pippin said
 
> 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. 
> 


I think that Ron and Hermione are the only ones that know what Harry 
is and has been going through.  They seem to be the only one of 
his 'peers' that Harry confides in, that see, first hand, what Harry 
has been going through.  They are the only one who've stood by his 
side, both figuritively and physically  (didn't Ron face his worst 
fear following Harry into the forbidden forest?, didn't Hermione 
suck it up (in terms of her discomfort in flying) when they saved 
Sirius and Buckbeak?).  Harry shares a bond with Ron and Hermione 
(as JKR mentions after the Troll incident in PS) that he doesn't 
have with anyone else.


Ginny and Cho are hardly the only ones to face hardship due to 
Voldemort (directly or indirectly).  Neville (effectively), Susan 
Bones and others lost family members due to the 'fight with 
Voldemort', Sirius, Snape, Dumbledore, etc. have all experienced 
hardships and yet carry on.  Harry has many people that he can look 
to for that 'shared' experience.  

Both Hermione and Ron have (intentially) put themselves in harms way 
for Harry.  They both could have potentially come face to face with 
Voldemort (Hermione in PS and Ron in CoS), the fact that they didn't 
doesn't negate the fact that they were more than willing do it.  
After his experience in GoF it's Ron and Hermione's company Harry 
sought out, it's in their company that he finds solace.


Erica (who mostly lurks)