Conflict in H/G - N/G (SHIP) WAS (Re: Inherent conflict in R/H - H/H (SHIP)

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 33017

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Penny & Bryce <pennylin at s...> wrote:

I'm happily R/H, though I have no comments on the subject, and would 
be happy if Hermione ended up with Ron, Harry, someone else, or 
nobody at all, as she chooses, as long as it isn't Viktor Krum.

> But, I do think that FITD (Ron likes Hermione who likes Harry who 
likes 
> noone or someone outside the Trio) presents better dramatic 
> possibilities & by far more conflict than R/H.  

This comment put me in mind of a conflict situation I would love to 
see. The Ron-Hermione-Harry love-triangle is something I don't want 
to see, imho, though, for the life of me, I can't see why. I'd 
sacrifice my inclination towards Ron, for an H/H pairing, if Rowling 
could avoid a love triangle. I think it'd wreck what I love about the 
three. But who knows?

But where I could use a love triangle would be Harry-Ginny-Neville. 
Rowling has hinted Ginny is going to come into prominence in OotP, 
and I can guess from the revelations in GoF that Neville's star is in 
the ascendant as well. Ginny worships Harry. Harry begins to notice 
her. But Neville is beginning to enter the picture. (I can't think 
that JKR paired him with Ginny at the ball for no reason.) At a time, 
when, as we readers know, Harry and Neville should be drawing closer 
together, there's this conflict. And poor Ginny is all confused in 
the middle of it. She's of a less stern stuff than Hermione, who, I 
think we can agree, knows herself very well, and I dread to think 
what she would go through in a situation like this (though I want to 
see it! and hopefully, she will learn to grow up and stand on her own 
two feet). Does it signify anything that Ginny is (among other 
things) a diminutive of Guinivere? End it as you wish, I want an N/G 
pairing, but I think it would be the perfect romantic conflict.

Eileen