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

[Erica <cymru1ca@yahoo.ca>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49960


> 
> Me (Cathy):
> 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?
> 


Me:
That is all very interesting, but also all very subjective.  
Different teens and preteens are going to have different kinds of 
relationship, as with their adult counterparts, because, like 
adults, they are all individuals with individual characteristics and 
different levels of 'maturity'.  That kind of relationships (with 
lots of fussing and fighting) has always struck me as being 
an 'immature one' whether its be between youths or adults.  

I asked my daughter (who's 9 1/2 y/o) about who, she thought, liked 
whom, in the HP series.  According to her it's 'obvious' that Ron 
likes Hermione.  Why? I asked. 

"Because he hates her".  

"He likes her because he hates her?!"  "How does that work?"

"Well, he doesn't 'hate' her, it's just that some people are 
embarrased to show how they really feel and so they tease instead"

"Ah, so Ron and Hermione are going to be girlfriend and boyfriend"

"No.  Hermione likes Harry"

"But you just said that when people argue like that they they like 
eachother, didn't you"

"Yeah, but it's just Ron who's like that, Hermione is different - 
she not embarrassed to show her feelings"


So perhaps it's possible that all that teasing is 'foreplay' for 
Ron, but merely 'annoying' for Hermione ... 

Erica