SHIP: R/H question for Ebony (was Ron and Hermione do TOO banter!)

[Ebony <selah_1977@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50424

Again, panting to catch up after another long weekday AFK...

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "David <dfrankiswork at n...>" 
<dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
> > > ever since reading GoF I've predicted that Ron and 
> > Hermione will date in future books.  If I were a betting woman, 
my 
> > money would be on R/H... 
> 
> And I thought your essays were such a comprehensive trashing (if I 
> may use that word) of the R/H position!


Trashing?  I'm accused of being a textual cannibal (winks at Amy), 
now David implies that my essay is tantamount to tossing rubbish on 
the R/H position. 

Ah, well.  You can't win 'em all. 

I emphatically do expect to see R/H in future books, David.  I think 
that Ron likes her, and I think that Hermione will date him not 
because she likes him, but for other reasons that I can discuss in 
detail later.  Teenage girls date guys all the time who are more 
interested than they are, I would assert.

However, I think that any logical development of R/H would be quite 
disastrous indeed for the characters *in this context*.  And yes, 
David, I did write a post-Hogwarts fanfiction about it (in which an 
R/H marriage unravels a decade after canon), but in truth, I think 
that even 10 years I gave it in my fic is far too long... or even 2-
3.  I suppose it's because I'm a lit scholar-in-training, knee-deep 
in reading JKR's literary antecedents and theory, and I just got this 
strange sense of "something is rotten in Denmark" while reading the 
proto-R/H of Ron--->Hermione in GoF.  Have not been able to shake it 
in the years since.

I feel so strongly that R/H makes no sense in terms of the broader 
narrative that if I see OBHWF development without conflict in the 
rest of canon, I'd be fascinated and would definitely expend some 
time and energy critiquing it on a scholarly level.  Which is cool... 
by the time book 7 comes out, I'll have the creds to do it.

--Ebony, writing a thesis on two non-HP juvenile texts at the present 
time