[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry, Hermione & Ron [SHIP + CRAB]

[Przemyslaw Plaskowicki]

No: HPFGUIDX 74411

greatelderone wrote (2003-07-31 18:20):

>--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "C M" <cmurph18 at y...> wrote:
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>>I'm with you on Harry/Cho and Hermione/Viktor, but can we really be 
>>sure that she wasn't referring to Ron/Fleur with that comment? She 
>>*is* the one he asked to the Yule Ball.
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>Was the Ron/Fleur thing even a relationships? Besides as others noted 
>GoF was more about Ron falling in love with Hermione and getting over 
>the fact that he can't have the Human-Veela so I'm thinking that she 
>was indeed talking about Ron/Hermione. Also if we are using the 
>Harry/Cho and Hermione/Viktor as standards then Ron's crush has to 
>last more than one book and the Ron/Fleur thing hardly lasted half a 
>book while his love for Hermione which starts in GoF is still there.
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I'm sure that no party will convince the other, but...

Was Hermione/Viktor really a relationship (or love?). He asked her, she liked him so she agreed to meet with him. I don't think they ever kissed, holded hands or something like that. That was not love -- not even by Harry/Cho standard.

If anybody was in love in 4th book, it was Ron.

Now, taking literally what JKR said is leading us astray. She said: "Everyone is in love with the wrong people." and: "They're all kind of after the wrong people, as in life." There is huge difference between "in love" and "after the wrong people (kind of)". Those two sentences are mutually exclusive.

I argued above that in book 4 there was no *real* love. Given that, by "in love" JKR meant "different stages of boy/girl relations", we can safely assume that she meant: R/Fleur, H/Cho, Hermione/Victor.



On the related note. Could you imagine an impact on Ron if he would be 
dump by Hermione? I mean, such events are most common reason for male 
suicides...

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