SHIP Ron/ Hermione /Re:Prefect Ron

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 151451

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" 
<horridporrid03 at ...> wrote:
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> 
> I get that Ron quite likes Hermione's intelligence and he's fondly 
> amused (rather than annoyed) at her tendency to over-react to 
> things.  (No one is better at talking Hermione down from a 
> hysterical fit than Ron.)  But I don't get how he was able to put up 
> with such bad treatment over this last year.  He must have 
> recognized a vulnerability or something that I missed.
> 
> Betsy Hp
>

Hickengruendler:

But now I have to ask: When exactly did Hermione treat Ron badly in 
HBP? The only possible times which come to my mind are the bird scene 
and (maybe) Hermione trying to make him jealous with McLaggen. But the 
later was her good right and shouldn't have hurt Ron at all, if he was 
honestly in love with Lavender. If anything it was unfair towards 
McLaggen, but certainly not towards Ron. And Hermione paid the prize 
for this anyway in having McLaggen on her heels. But both cases were 
anyway *after* Ron hugged up with Lavender. Prior to this I remember no 
scene where she treated him badly, or worse than he treated her. In 
fact, Ron started to snog Lavender pretty much right after Hermione 
invited him to go to Slughorn's Christmas party with her, which was a 
slap in the face, if I ever read about one.

I think both are pretty much even par and always were. I remember being 
definitely on Hermione's side during the Yule Ball scene, since it was 
Ron's own fault for not asking her earlier. But since then a lot of 
happened and both gave each other a lot of help and a lot of 
annoyances. But I do not think that either one treated the other 
particularly horrible or that Hermione was oh-so-awful to Ron, that she 
deserved to endure the Ron/Lavender snogging time.  

Hickengruendler