SHIP Ron/Hermione

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 151595

 > >>Pippin:
> > Nothing except their devotion to Project Harry, their courage and 
> > determination, and their sense of justice. Hanging out with Harry 
> > stopped being all fun and games quite a while ago, but they've    
> > never faltered. 
> 
> Betsy Hp:
> Well, yes.  They're very loyal to Harry.  But I'm talking about the 
> two of them *without* Harry.<snip> 
> And see, that strikes me as very different from the usual bickering 
> couple template.  The bickering couple usually *do* have a very 
> similar style.  They just fail to recognize it (while usually 
> everyone around them sees the similarities quite clearly).  Ron and 
> Hermione would *never* approach a task in the same way, even if the 
> end goal was the same.  And the problem, to my mind, is Hermione (at 
> least in HBP) would see Ron's way as totally, completely wrong. 
> <snip>
> 
> What on earth do those two have in common?

Pippin:
What's similar about their style is their intensity. That can be
awfully hard to put up with unless you find somebody who understands
it because they're the same way. Ron doesn't put his intensity into
his studies the way Hermione does, but he's not what I'd call laid
back, certainly not where Quidditch or Harry is concerned. 

They do share a passion for justice even if they express it in different
ways. They react with equal shock and outrage when Sirius says
he was imprisoned without trial. 

Harry doesn't think much about how they relate when he's not around,
but JKR sent them off to Hogsmeade together in PoA and they came
back glowing. 

The things they tease each other about aren't really hot buttons --
you can tell because Draco and Pansy pick other things to rag them
about. You won't hear Draco teasing Ron about his lack of academic 
prowess, and Parkinson doesn't call Hermione a know it all. Only 
Snape manages to draw blood with that one, but it's the unfairness 
of it that rankles, not the insult itself.

I don't think we hear any criticism from Ron about the parchment
hex. The DA members were told that they were agreeing not to tell
Umbridge about the meetings by signing it. A wizard would not
be shocked to find that the agreement had teeth. 

Pippin