[HPforGrownups] Re:Prefect Ron (was DD on the Dursleys).

[IreneMikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 151299

Sandy wrote:

> 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.

Yes, it has been obvious for me too.

 > 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. 

My biggest problem with this relationship is exactly that, the lack of 
respect. Ron does not care at all for the things that are important to 
Hermione, namely learning and books. He keeps making fun of it at every 
opportunity. He keeps disparaging her interest all the time, and keeps 
trying to change her. "Hermione, you would be such fun if you only 
changed the core of your personality". That's the vibe I get off Ron all 
the time. The fact that Hermione has learned after 6 years just to shrug 
it off does not make it any better.

Betsy Hp wrote:
>  but attended and spoke highly of a club from which Ron had 
> been excluded

Exactly. If they are in a relationship, Hermione will have to keep Ron 
happy and his self-esteem high by not doing all the things that can 
exclude Ron. She can't invite guests and have intellectual discussion 
about the latest discoveries in Transfiguration, right? That will keep 
Ron excluded and miserable. She can't get a high-flying job, because Ron 
will be very upset if she earns more than he does. This whole 
relationship reads to me as a lifetime of Hermione keeping her head down 
and her heels low, not to appear taller than Ron. Figuratively speaking.

> I think it's fairly clear that the books will end with Ron and 
> Hermione sitting in a tree (with church steeples and baby-carriages 
> dancing through their heads).

I think you are right.

Irene