Ship predictions(scenarios)

BrwNeil at aol.com BrwNeil at aol.com
Wed Feb 11 02:32:10 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 90706

I can't believe I've let myself be drawn into this discussion, but here goes.

My first question is which came first, ships or fanfiction?  I can't believe 
that anyone upon first reading SS or CoS even thinks about ships unless they 
have been brainwashed by fanfiction.  These are 11 and 12 year old kids.  They 
will be 17 when they leave Hogwarts.  What percentage of people in the world 
marry someone from their graduating class?  Yet we have determined that Harry 
and Ron must pick their future mates from either their class or the one 
directly behind them.

Personally I don't think Rowling will link anyone in a till death do us die 
relationship in the series.  It wouldn't be good for sales.  Perhaps only if 
there is an epilogue. As for hints in the story; there were as many Luna/ Ron 
and Luna/Harry hints as there were any other kind.  There were even Nevile/ 
Ginny hints.  Most hints are what we want to read into them.

I think a Harry/Hermione relationship could make it.  I also think Harry and 
Ginny would work.  Shoot me, but I think even Harry and Luna could make it 
because in all these situations they complement each other.  I think we've only 
seen the surface of Luna.

A marriage between Ron and Hermione in the real world would never make it.  
Some say their fighting is funny in the story and it is, but would it be funny 
in real life.  Hermione wants to free elves, Ron looks down on them and would 
dread their being free.  Who would do his laundry?   Hermione is a super 
achiever and Ron is happy to get by.  

In a relationship between Ron and Hermione, they could never be equal 
partners.  She excels him in every way.  Could Ron accept that.  Forget the 
hints and look at the personalities of the characters.  Ron and Hermione
wouldn't even be friends if Harry wasn't there as a buffer zone.

Neil





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