Prefect Ron (was DD on the Dursleys).

[Joe Goodwin]

No: HPFGUIDX 151275


Sandy:
I haven't been a part of this list long enough to have seen the shipping wars and certainly don't want to re-start them, but I would like to comment on this.

It has been obvious from book one that there is some kind of chemistry between Ron and Hermione, and a better example of opposites attracting I have never seen.
   
   
  Joe: 
I don't know, it seems rather Beatrice and Benedict to me.
   
  Sandy: 
It was oh so subtle, but it always seemed obvious that the two were destined to share their future together, and I had no objections to that, and in fact, at first, found it charming. But, since GoF, I have formed a totally 
negative position towards Ron where Hermione is concerned. It has nothing, however, to do with the above mentioned things. It has to do with the fact that he shows no care, concern or respect for Hermione at all. I consider his treatment of her to be abusive and chauvanistic.
   
  Joe: 
Abusive? If I remember right both Harry and Hermione have caused physical harm to another student by punching them. Hermione has also hexed Ron for kissing another girl. If anyone is abusive(and they aren't) it's Hermione and pretty vindictive too
   
   
  Sandy:
 First there is his reaction to the veelas and Fleur,
   
  Joe:
 Yeah he is such a bad guy for having a mostly uncomtrolable reaction to a magical compulsion. coughLockheartcough
   
  Sandy:
 and then the Yule Ball fiasco in GoF. And then there's the 
Lavender thing in HBP, which I find the most disturbing of all. He knew he was hurting Hermione but he kept right on doing it.
   
  Joe: 
So Ron isn't allowed a social life that Hermione doesn't like?
 
Sandy:  
   I have to wonder if Ron could ever be truly faithful to Hermione, and it has crossed my mind that he could  possibly even be physically abusive to her. Unless Ron undergoes a major change of attitude in the next book I don't see him as ever being a suitable mate/partner for any woman, much less Hermione.
   
  Joe: I would like to know what part of canon makes you think Ron could not be faithful to a woman? I would also like to know what part of canon shows Ron physically abusing anyone much less someone he is dating.
   
  To me I often wonder why no one asks if Hermione is good enough for Ron? Yeah she's smart, she's also snotty, full of her self, a wet blanket, bossy and doesn't seem to get along well with her other dormmates. Yeah Parvati and Lavender aren't rocket scientists but they are fairly well adjusted and socially adept. If Hermione doesn't have female friends that we know of it probably isn't because all the Gryffindor girls are flawed but because she is.
   
  Joe