[HPforGrownups] SHIPS: Who gets who at the end?

[P. Alexis Nguyen]

No: HPFGUIDX 134501

pollynesbitt wrote:
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> Besides Harry points to something important: maybe Hermione and Ron
> together as a couple would only screw up their relationship as friends
> and no one wants that!
> Ron and Luna. He´s the only one who actually finds her funny.
> Harry...don´t know if he´ll survive. either way, superheroes never
> really get the girl at the end. They are destined to a life of
> solitude.
> Did anyone see the Tonks and Lupin thing coming?? That´s weird. Maybe
> it´s a foreshadow. JKR is granting Lupin a lovelife before she murders
> him in book 7?

I've never been an adamant H/Hr shipper.  (Actually, I believe I even
once made the comment, post CoS, that I didn't really see any ships
happening in HP and that R/H was the most likely ship since that
seemed to be what JKR was hinting at, but H/G seemed awfully cliched
to me, as did H/Hr, though I liked them better, and I just thought JKR
wouldn't do either to the reader.)  In fact, I thought the idea of D/G
was more fun (though about as likely as Snape being a vampire). 
Post-HBP, I'm still of similar mind.

I won't comment any more on H/G, but as far as R/Hr goes, I've always
wondered whether they would be good together long-term.  I just don't
believe that love is enough to sustain all things, so while JKR may be
pushing for the R/Hr thing (and she's pretty much sledgehammered it
into us), I don't know that I can see them beyond a "high school
sweetheart" situation.  Beyond that, tearing up the trio seems such a
horrible thing now that the war is upon them.  There may be chemistry
there, but one has to wonder if, after the war is over and everyone is
eons older, will the chemistry still exist?  Or will the trio remain
just friends?

Per Ron & Luna, as hilarious as that may be, I really think that, with
Hermione around, that ship is less likely than Harry and Luna getting
together, though that idea recently really started appealing to me. 
Considering that there's only one book left and JKR has left
significant amounts of R/Hr tension around, it seems unlike that Ron &
Luna will ever look at each other in that sort of romantic fashion,
though I do buy into the idea that Luna may have [had] a crush on Ron.

As for Tonks and Lupin, that definitely came out of nowhere.  Even
upon the second reading, I wondered if JKR and her anvils were in the
same book I was reading.  I know that Harry was supposed to be
enclosed in his own world, but because of the precedence set by the
first few chapters, I didn't expect that Harry's perspective would
come back to haunt me by telling me that, because he couldn't pick up
on the clues, I had to accept Tonks & Lupin without prior evidence. 
(Was there prior evidence?  Could anyone who did see it coming
expound?)  However, I'm willing to go on the record as saying that,
because Harry was so unaware of, and therefore not close to, Lupin,
JKR will not be killing off the last of the good Marauders. 
Therefore, I think Lupin & Tonks are destined to live happily ever
after, unless Tonks dies, because, after all, she did get more notice
in this book than Lupin. :)

By the way, I'll also go on record as saying that, though Harry will
live at the end of Book 7, he'll be quite alone as far as romantic
interests.  The hero, after all, has a romantic tradition to uphold.

~Ali