OOP: Boys & Girls in the Potter World

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No: HPFGUIDX 67385

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Melinda Leydon 
<melindaleo at m...> wrote:
> Jenny from Ravenclaw said:  Harry and Luna?  Nah - Luna is just 
lustin' for
> Ron, IMO.  I will 
> continue to have my fingers crossed for Harry and Ginny.
> 
> 
> Now ME:  I'm with you Jenny!  I didn't think of Cho as a slut, just 
a
> teenage girl having a lot of trouble coping with the death of her 
boyfriend.
> Harry was having his own trouble coping and the two of them 
together was
> just a mess waiting to happen.  I didn't like the idea of them 
together
> after Cedric's death either, too much a yuck factor!  Harry had 
survivor
> guilt written all over him and Cho was looking for a way to hang on 
to him.
> I did thoroughly enjoy the scene in the common room after the 
kiss.  Ron
> just cracked me up.
> 
> As for Luna, I think she's interested in Ron, but I'd really like 
to see him
> with Hermione.  JKR puts herself in both Hermione and Luna and I 
don't see
> any love connection with Harry there.  It's Ginny who has turned me 
into a
> shipper!  Something about that chocolate egg scene really strikes 
me!  I'd
> like to see Harry's "wet" first kisses continue, only maybe have 
Ginny be
> the one offering some comfort to Harry!  Harry would quickly 
realize what
> he's been missing in Ginny!  My dime, I can fantasize!
> 
> MElinda

I'm pretty happy with the Luna addition.  She definitely has a thing 
for Ron.  However, as opposed to the L/R shippers I think Luna is a 
character who will be used to spur others into action, namely, 
Hermione and Ron.  I think that when Ron realises that Luna likes 
him, he'll be forced to decide on who he really wants and my money is 
on Hermione, who I fancy will give a little sigh and say 'Honestly 
Ron, it took you long enough to figure out, didn't it?!'

Harry's already been given the 'confusing womanly signals' by Cho and 
doesn't need that sort of complication in the next couple of books 
(got Voldy to sort out).  Ginny will be his stalwart and a slow 
burner that won't come to fruition until Book 7.