Ship predictions(scenarios)

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No: HPFGUIDX 90665

> Jim Ferer wrote:
> 
> > >Is Hermione the kind of woman Ron wants? <snip> 

> Pippin:
> ::blinks:: Where did *that* come from? <snip>

Neri now:
I agree with Pippin, and I want to add: I also started my HP reading 
as a H/H shipper (I just didn't know at the time this is what it is 
called). It is just natural. Harry is the boy hero we most identify 
with. Hermione is the girl heroine we most identify with. Naturally 
we want them to be together. But I think everybody who was really 
reading the books as they are written, not merely putting his/her own 
wishes inside the characters' head, must realize the direction in 
which JKR is heading, and not only because of the tension/potential 
between Hermione and Ron. It is more than that. Both Hermione and 
Ron, although they really love Harry, can't relate to him in the most 
critical and most painful issues of his life. They can't, because 
they never been there. They have never been totally alone. They have 
never lost a parent or a close friend. They never looked Evil in the 
eye. They never saw or heard things that other people couldn't see or 
hear. They never had to doubt their own mind and their own sanity.

When Harry talks about how his parents were murdered, or about his 
confrontations with LV, Hermione and Ron are embarrassed. They don't 
know what to say. They exchange silent stares between them. It is 
Neville, Ginny and Luna who were in those bad places, and this is why 
it is them, not Ron and Hermione, who can relate to Harry in his most 
painful moments. This has been hinted since SS/PS, but is made 
especially clear in OoP.

So I must conclude that R/H is likely, and H/G is likely. Even H/L 
(which I don't really believe) is more likely than H/H. The only way 
I see Hermione ends up with Harry, is if she is in love with Ron and 
Ron dies. Only then she will be able to really understand Harry.


Neri, concluding his first shipping post with an ominous mood.