[HPforGrownups] Re: SHIP: Why I do not ship H/H (wasSusan Bones - The Can...

[BrwNeil at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 128073

 
In a message dated 4/25/2005 8:20:53 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
imontero at iname.com writes:



<In the romantic front regarding the trio, the only thing Jo  has
<clearly showed to us is that Ron has `something going on' for  Hermione
<(still doubting about it? Read Jo quotes below). 
I've read all those quotes and what I find most troubling is that JKR  
herself seems to be pushing the idea of R/H.  Everything else in the books  is a 
guarded secret, why is she open and kidding about the dating subject, yet  she 
won't come right out and say that they get together.
 
 

<Now to the point, if Harry starts developing more than  friendly
<feelings for Hermione and Hermione returns his feelings, a  conflictive
<love triangle will be created. The trio will be divided, as  Ron will
<surely feel betrayed by his best friends and will rift away from  them.
<This in itself will greatly irrupt the main plot line where now  the
<main aspects are the war, the need of unity and friendship. The  main
<plot will then become the love triangle situation where Ron  perhaps
<will betray Harry and Hermione out of resentment; everything will  turn
<around Harry and Hermione together fighting against evil  forces.  In
<short, this twist of events would transform the main  plot into a
<mixture of the O.C. and Beverly Hills 9210(?) episode…,
 
I agree with everything you  say, if in fact Ron likes Hermione.  What if JKR 
has tricked us all at the  end of GOF and it is actually Hermione that likes 
Ron.   Think about  it.  What if Ron is actually only upset because Hermione 
was going out  with the competition?  I realize this seems far fetched since 
Fleur was a  competitor and he asked her out.
 
It seems strange that through  the remainder of GoF and through all of OotP, 
Ron never once mentioned to his  best friend that he had any feelings for 
Hermione.
 
Yet it was Hermione that  yelled "Next time there's a ball, ask me before 
someone else does, and not as a  last resort!"
 
JKR Quote
Chat with the Yahooligans, 2001 : 
sammyohyeah asks: Is it just me, or  was something going on between Ron
and Hermione during the last half of GOF?  I love your books, btw, and
two of them I've read straight through cover to  cover in under 24 hours. 
jkrowling_bn: well done on the reading speed! Yes,  something's 'going
on'... but Ron doesn't realise it yet... typical  boy.
 
 
<So, Ron and Hermione getting together
<wouldn't irrupt the trio  balanced structure. They're the two faces of
<the same coin. They're at  the same structural level in the books.
<Regardless of the relationship  they develop, they'll still be there to
<support Harry because that's  foremost their `raison d'être' in the
<books. Their romance (if there is  one) would be surely just to provide
<some comic relief and would be  limited to the background… But if Harry
<get together with Hermione, the  balance will be broken. Ron will be
<left out of the trio, Hermione will  become the co-hero, thus the trio
<will be disintegrated.
 
Here I disagree with you, I  think that any of the three in a relationship 
with anyone will damage the  trio, but then I'm thinking real life, not fiction. 
  When a boy and  girl become a couple, they tend to spend less time with 
their friends.   EX.   Harry in a relationship with Ginny, Susan or Luna would 
have  less time to be with Ron and Hermione.
 
As for your comment about  co-hero, that seems to have already occurred in 
OotP.  Actually it started  back in POA.  More and more it seems Ron is missing 
during important  happenings.
 
I agree with so much of what  you say; I agree that JKR seems to be 
indicating a R/H relationship in her  interviews.  Yet at the same time Ron and 
Hermione continue to fight over  every little thing while Harry and Hermione have 
become co-heros.
 
JKR may most certainly  be headed for a R/H finish, but in the process she 
seems to be building a more  dependent understanding relationship between Harry 
and Hermione.
 
Thus I have my own shipping  preference, but I don't  rule out anything.  
We'll know whats  happening if Harry ever out right asks Ron if he has feelings 
for  Hermione.  I can't believe that he never found time to do that in all of  
OotP.  Harry and Ron aren't normal boys, they seldom talk about  girls.
 
Neil
 







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