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

[serenadust <jmmears@comcast.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50003

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Susanne <siskiou at e...> wrote:

> 
> See, I don't think we'll be having any serious dating any
> time soon.
> 
> Things are still at the very beginning, with nobody having
> admitted anything, yet, and the way romance has been a very,
> very small part of the books, I could imagine it taking
> quite a while longer before Ron and Hermione actually do
> date.

I tend to agree with you here.  I suspect the whole H/R romantic 
thing to return to the back burner in most, if not all of OoP.  I 
just don't think that either of them is ready to deal with each 
other in that context, and that Ron in particular would *much* 
rather not even have these icky feelings about Hermione ;).

 
> And Ron's "jealous nature" only came into play because there
> was something to be jealous *about*.

Exactly.  If there had been no Yule Ball (and therefore no date with 
Krum), Ron could have continued to maintain the same sort of 
ignorant bliss he was living in before he was forced to realize that 
Hermione *is* a girl.


> > Friday, January 17, 2003, 11:22:47 AM, Penny wrote:
> >> Maybe it's the feminist in me that gets all riled up about 
R/H.  It's
> >> been my experience that many R/H'ers have a tendency to focus 
on Ron's
> >> feelings and conclude that because Ron likes her, it's a given 
that
> >> there will be a romance.  "But, it's *obvious* that Ron 
liiiiiiikes
> >> her."  To which I say a big giant: "So.  What."  It takes 
two.    

Absolutely true.  I should point out now that I am in no way a 
vehement R/H (or any other) shipper.  It's just that H/H seem rather 
incompatable to me (aside from all the blatent R/H stuff in GoF). I 
fear that Hermione could never really be happy with someone like 
Harry who so often seems to either ignore her almost constant  
advice, or evade her completely until he's really in trouble and 
needs her to help him.  He even seems to be using Ron as a shield to 
deflect her intense nature at times. That would have to get 
frustrating for her, and I'd actually enjoy her telling him off for 
it at some point. He just doesn't seem to be able to appreciate her 
efforts on his behalf sufficiently for me to be able to forsee a 
satisfactory romantic relationship developing. 

Jo Serenadust