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

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 151300

> 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.

Magpie:
Not seeing that at all.  Hermione always makes it clear she's the height she 
is.  I can't think of any time Ron has needed her to not belong to something 
because he's not in it.  He doesn't demand she quit the Slug Club.  He's a 
bit humilited about being left out and gets sulky about it, but there's 
never any question of Hermione not being in it because Ron isn't.  I can't 
think of any time Hermione has dumbed herself down for Ron.  On the 
contrary, sometimes she's a little slow to cover the opposite feeling. 
She's known to tell Ron to shut up or criticize his thinking when she 
disagrees with it.  She gets higher marks than he does and he knows it. She 
corrects his homework without his getting angry.  Has this sort of thing 
ever really happened between them in the books?  It seems almost more like a 
riff on the abstract idea that they represent--easy-going normal guy, 
low-brow tastes, big family with a traditional mother vs. brainy 
over-acheiving girl.

-m