[HPforGrownups] Re: Ship predictions(scenarios)

[Susanne]

No: HPFGUIDX 90781



Hi,

Wednesday, February 11, 2004, 5:30:50 PM, BrwNeil wrote:


> I'm going to stand back and wait for the bricks to be thrown, but Hermione is
> my favorite character in canon.  If she were my
> daughter; I would be extremely proud.  I'd also want the
> best for
> her.

Yes, Hermione is the kind of kid to make her parents proud
by being a great achiever, and bringing home excellent
grades.
But as a parent, let me tell you that grades aren't
everything, and what Hermione needs to still learn a it more
is how to socialize without putting people off.
She's the type of person who often has her heart in the
right place, but what comes out of her mouth isn't quite in
line with this.

She can be incredible judgmental and arrogant, disregarding
any opinions but her own, and it's hard to make friends this
way.

And as a parent, I would hope to not go down the road of
trying to tell her, she should pick someone as a partner who
is really "deserving" of her greatness.
That person may never come.


>  In my opinion she can do much better than Ron. 
> And I don't just mean Harry.  I'm not really a H/Hr
> shipper as
> much as I'm an anti R/Hr shipper.  

With this shipping business, so much seems to come down to
which character we prefer, and there seems to be a lot of
idealizing of said character involved.

Faults are overlooked and only the good interactions of the
preferred ship partners are remembered, while the the
disliked possible partner somehow becomes much more negative
than he/she really is.

Thus, Harry and Hermione are seen as this incredible
compatible pair, who is just surrounded by nothing but love
and goodness, while Ron and Hermione turn into this
constantly fighting pair, who never has a good interaction
in five years, and wouldn't even be friends without Harry.

I see it as perfectly possible for Ron *or* Harry to be a
good partner for Hermione.

I prefer R/Hr, because I see a slow build-up toward it, and
find their interactions funny and enjoy the irony of their
initial dislike turning into the opposite.


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