SHIP: HRH Love triangle & Ron's downfall

[queenofeverythang]

No: HPFGUIDX 75863

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mom31" 
<mom31 at r...> wrote:
> Allie:
> Just out of curiosity- did it seem to everyone else that the
> Ron/Hermione (or even H/H) angle was VERY downplayed in 
OoP?  I
> wondered why, when it seemed like it was so set up after GoF.
> 
> 
> Joj:
> I wondered the same thing.  It would have been easy to add a 
few lines,
> especially since R/H spent so much time together.  Harry could 
have noticed
> a closer bond between them and felt more left out.  JKR didn't 
do that, and
> there has to be a reason.
> 
> 
> 
> Allie:
> The closest Harry has ever come to showing interest in 
Hermione is
> when he says in OoP that he doesn't think she's ugly.  :)
> 
> 
> Joj:
> The only thing I noticed, was when Ron and Harry had their 
fight in GOF,
> Hermione stuck with Harry.  I'm sure she spent time with Ron, 
but when the
> three were in the same place, she was with Harry.    I'm sure it 
was because
> she believed Harry and thought Ron was wrong, but it still 
stood out to me.
> Also, to my knowledge, nobody has ever thought Ron was 
Hermione's boyfriend.
> It's happened with Harry a lot.  (Rita, Mrs. Weasley, Krum and 
Cho).  She
> spends just as much time with Ron. (more in OOP)  Just 
something I noticed.
> 
> Joj
> 

Rita invented the couple story because she knew "Harry in Love" 
would sell a lot of papers - and Harry spends time with only one 
girl, Hermione.

Mrs. Weasley only thought of Harry & Hermione as a couple 
because of Rita (she's very protective of Harry)

Cho and Krum's reasons and motives are pretty obvious

Who Harry dates is headline news. Who Ron dates wouldn't 
even make for good gossip. Ron & Hermione could've gotten 
engaged in OotP and I don't think the news would've traveled 
past the Gryffindor common room. All this may change now that 
he's on the quidditch team though. I see Ron coming out of his 
friends' shadows in book 6 and becoming a little more 
gossip-worthy.

-QoE