SHIP: Why neither Harry nor Ron is right for Hermione

[saraquel_omphale]

No: HPFGUIDX 131058

OK, you shippers out there, I've never posted a SHIP before and 
generally don't take too much interest in the romances, so this may 
have been said many times before, if so apologies and vote with your 
X button.  Personally I think that no-one would be made happy by any 
members of the triangle getting together. (Including the gay option -
 but JKR doesn't seem to be rolling that one - now that would be a 
surprise!)

Hermione and Harry: Harry needs a little lightness in his life.  He 
needs someone to say, 'Yeh, true, but so what...' that's why he gets 
on so well with Ron. As seen in the GoF section when Ron withdraws 
his friendship, Harry finds being with Hermione far too serious.  
Harry takes Hermione's views seriously, even if he doesn't directly 
say so.  Take the firebolt storyline in PoA.  He acknowledges that 
she has a point and therefore finds his desires struggling to break 
free.  Harry needs to learn mastery over his impulses for himself, 
rather than have them cut down to size by Hermione.  In a 
relationship he would end up feeling trapped and resentful.  Also, 
my reading of their relationship in the books has always been 
friendship.  Hermione is too easy with Harry physically (she has 
hugged him quite a few times) to have an adolescent attraction to 
him.

Ron and Hermione: IMO, if JKR is touting any SHIP between the major 
characters, it's this one.  Although the Aaah factor would be sort 
of satisfying, I really don't think it would be a good match. There 
is obvious chemistry between them, but not enough respect.  I could 
see them continuing to bicker and ending up in a Molly/Arthur 
scenario.  Staying together, but neither of them really bringing out 
the best in each other. Ron needs someone lighter, who will make him 
feel good about himself and increase his confidence.

Hermione needs: Someone she can respect, so that the bossiness in 
her character doesn't have full reign.  She needs to feel safe, 
because she's very vulnerable.  She needs someone who is her 
intellectual equal, so that that part of her character is satisfied 
and she has some space to develop other things.  Probably someone 
older. Who comes to mind - er Krum. Well, let's see if we hear more 
about him.  Although I don't think the chemistry is there on 
Hermione's side, it obviously is on Krum's.  But somehow, I don't 
think JKR is going to take that one much further.

After all that - when do we ever chose what we need, rather than 
what we want, when we're a teenager.  I certainly didn't! 

Saraquel