SHIP: JKR & Ron/Hermione, H/H converging

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No: HPFGUIDX 49933


----- Original Message -----
From: Penny Linsenmayer
Ah, and those bickering moments and the out-and-out *fights* that Ron and
Hermione have?  Clicking emotionally, are they?   Well, yeah, I guess so,
since Ron has made Hermione cry at least twice that I can recall.

Yes, Harry gets impatient with Hermione sometimes, when she is only trying
to help.  But, Ron is far more impatient with Hermione than Harry is, IMO.
But, more importantly, I see lots of impatience with Ron from Hermione.  How
many times does she utter "Oh, Ron!" or tut-tut about something he offers up
as a possible factor or solution.  She's very dismissive of him really.  Yet
another reason why I think R/H would be an incredibly bad match-up.  She's
not shown much interest so far in pumping up his self-esteem (low already)
and he isn't actually going to shine or come into his own if he's constantly
being overshadowed by both his best friend the Hero and his girlfriend the
Over-Achiever.

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Me:
In my experience with actual children this age (I taught 5th grade through
12th for 12 years) I found that the students who fought and bickered the
most at age 11 up through even 14 or 15 were the ones that ended up together
by the end of high school.  I even had a trio of two boys and a girl (1 -3
chairs in my trumpet section).  The two who bickered (and hurt) each other
the most in jr. high ended up together in high school.  In other words, you
might simply consider all of that fussing and fighting going on between Ron
and Hermione as "foreplay".  Opposites often do attract, don't they?

~Cathy~