a bit of SHIP Ron/Hermione/Hermione must be stopped

[Clark Kent]

No: HPFGUIDX 149279

> Alla wrote:
> > And I think her attacking Ron with birds was appaling too. It is
> > funny, I think JKR commented that Ron had to make himself worthy 
> > of Hermione in HBP. Personally, I happen to think that Hermione 
> > was not doing worthy things at all in that book. <snip>
>
> kchuplis:
> <snip>
> I mean, it's not like we all have to like the characters on the 
> "good side" to a person. That's part of what makes these character 
> relationships so interesting. Would I like to slap Hermione 
> sometimes? Yes. But then there have been more than a few occasions 
> when Ron and even Harry could use a slap too. I say cut Hermoninny 
> some slack :D


"Clark Kent":
I cut her some slack by not reading HBP more than once...  Personally I
think JKR did a great disservice to all three members of the trio, but then
again I was (and still am) a H/Hr shipper(even before I found the glorious
world of FanFiction) so maybe I'm just "delusional"!

Ron was supposed to be growing up in this book, yet he seemed to have no
attachment to Lavender other than a few snogging sessions.  I'm sure if I
was dating a guy and he walked out his bedroom with a girl EVERYBODY knew he
had a crush on, I'd be a little jealous too.  He was happy to be rid of her
because she was being too clingy and wanted to be around him...hmm, maybe
I'm missing something about the whole boyfriend/girlfriend thing they were
supposed to be having.

Then there's Hermione.  I'd say she went back in age by 3 years in this book
but she was more mature in book 3 than she is here.  After all her fits of
jealousy, I would've swore that JKR mixed up her Book 4 Ron notes with
Hermione's Book 6 notes.  In the other books she's supportive of both of
them, seemingly more mature and stable than both of them, and also seems
tired of Ron's fits of jealousy.  Then this abomination happens and she's
suddenly in love with Ron and can't stand any other female being within a 20
mile radius of him.

Then of course Harry is infested with an Alien, or whatever that "monster"
in his chest was supposed to represent.  He goes from not noticing Ginny in
the first 5 books, to all of a sudden being madly in love with her and
wanting to maim and kill anybody who looks at her.  Maybe if JKR went the
Cho route, and had Ginny actually be noticed by Harry sometime in the first
5 books or showed her as something other than one of the countless people
who seem to only care about his fame "Oh, Mom, can I go on the train and see
him, Mom, please...." then it would've made sense.  As it is, I just can't
see Harry marrying one of his fangirls, with no particular talents besides
casting that one bat bogey spell..

Love potions... what was the deal with them?  Every other potion in
Slughorn's class was more than just a passing remark.  Veritaserum was used
by Dumbledore against Barty Crouch in book 4 and Umbridge against Harry in
book 5, Polyjuice in Book 2 to interrogate malfoy, Felix Felis to get the
memory and save his friends in HBP, Love potions are mentioned throughout
HBP yet we never hear of anybody being affected by it.  Seems almost like
Hagrid mentioning Sirius Black in PS/SS doesn't it?

All in all, although I was hoping for Harry/Hermione, with the way JKR
writes romance, I'm glad she didn't ruin that particular ship for me.  I'll
just stick to www.portkey.org and ignore all the H/G and slash on FFN. :)