"A Little Romance"

[phoenixgod2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 127798


  She is not a sympathetic listener.  He 
> hides his feelings from her and confides in others.  All in all, 
> Harry needs someone else for a girlfriend.  He needs Hermione to 
be 
> just who she is — she is important to him as she is even though it 
> means she is not girlfriend material.  The essay "D'You Really 
Think 
> They're Suited?" at HP Lexicon documents all these points and is 
well 
> worth reading, if you can make it through 30 pages.

All good points. I never really understood how people can ship 
Harry/Hermione. They have all the sexual chemistry of a pair of wet 
blankets. Besides since the books are all from Harry's pov I think 
it would be pretty difficult to conceal having a crush on his best 
female friend. we saw H/cho coming three books away. I think we'll 
see whoever Harry dates coming a mile away. And so far since Harry 
hasn't really looked at another girl, that could be anyone.
 
>  JKR will pay a lot more attention to the 
> plot about Voldemort and make romance a side issue at best.  (In 
the 
> end, Cho was just a side plot in OOTP.)  This is an adventure 
series, 
> not teenage romance novels.  So there probably will be a 
> little "gratuitous romance," as it were, but nothing serious.  All 
> shippers are probably not going to be happy. 

That's what leads me to think that H/Ginny wouldn't happen, or in 
the very least be a lasting ship. Ginny figures pretty prominently 
in my overall Voldemort Theory for the rest of the series. I think 
Voldemort put part of his soul or power into Ginny and its my theory 
that in book seven he's going to try (maybe succed) kidnapping her 
with Harry coming to the rescue. In any case Ginny is going to 
figure prominently and she cannot be both important to the story and 
the romantic interest if romance is only going to be *light*. 
Rescuing his girlfriend would elevate the ship to something much 
more serious than the casual dating I think JK is going for with her 
ships.  But we shall see.

phoenixgod2000