[HPforGrownups] Re: SHIP: Need opinions? That's easy!

[Miss Melanie]

No: HPFGUIDX 97255

Mim wrote:
WHAT DOES HARRY NEED?

If Harry ends up with Ginny, he's going to have a supportive, loving
woman and family, a healing balm for all the hurts he's got and will
get. If it's Hermione, she's going to care for him in a different way,
pushing him when he needs it, tough when she has to be, challenging
him back to health. Which will he need?  He's going to need something,
because he's going to pay a high price for defying Voldemort, as all
the Dark Lord's enemies have.

If anyone wants to argue an R/H viewpoint based on the idea that "JKR
says so," that's weak, IMO. JKR doesn't want us to do that. She wants
us to find it in her text. She keeps telling us everything is there,
and it is, but you won't find it in how the pillows fall or anything
like that.

I come down on the H/H side, but I won't cry for him if he ends up
with Ginny, no way. She's a great girl, and they all deserve to be happy.

Jim Ferer

 

My reply:  I too tend to ship Harry/Hermione.  I think what we see is Ron has feelings for Hermione.  I think he has feelings for her because in all honesty he is the first girl that, to our knowledge, he has ever even gotten to know.  Lots of boys fall for the first girl they get to know.  We know that he has feelings for her, but we DON'T know if Hermione has feelings for Ron.  We don't know that at all actually.  We forget that maybe she was over the Weasley's to visit not only just Ron but also Ginny.  Ginny and her are much closer than we see in the books, she knows stuff about Ginny that we didn't learn about till much later.  

But back to Ron and Hermione, Ron is the one that yelled at Hermione at the yule ball.  We saw Hermione yell at him, but he was the one who started it.  Had Harry said the same thing to her she would of gotten upset at him.  Believe me Hermione has lost her temper to some degree with Harry as well.  She gets upset with him, but the truth is he doesn't upset her as much as Ron does.  

However, for many reasons I Think that Ron and Hermione is where JKR is going..but that is only if Ron survives the series.  I'm not sure that he is going to in all honesty.  

Then that would leave Harry and Hermione, whom I can see together.  However, I do think that Luna would be good for him. Luna is someone that will be very important, in all honesty she is the only person besides Hermione that truly challenges Harry to think.  I also think that interactions that he has had with her have been on a deeper much more intimate level than with anyone else.  

Ginny and Harry won't happen.  It's over, Ginny had a girlish crush on Harry but really they don't even know eachother all that well.  And I can't see them taking the time to get to know eachother either, or at least in that way.  Ginny will be like Harry's sister which is how it probably should be in the end.  

But do see some sort of sub romantic plot coming on.  Or at least in the epilogue we will find that this ended up having.  I honestly think that Ginny will end up with Neville.  They get along and I think she really believes in Neville.  Remember on the train.  "He's not nobody, Luna this is Neville Longbottom."   I think this is one way of Ginny showing Neville that he isn't as insignificant as he may think he is.  And in no way is he almost a squib, that insecurity that Neville has breaks my heart.  

~Melanie

 

 



		
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