Ron WAS: Re: DH reread CH 4-5

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> Shelley: Yes, honestly, I only ever saw 
> Hermione and Ron as divorced- I don't know how Hermione, a strong, confident  woman, would ever put up with a bungling and disappointing Ron. 

Pippin:
Hermione isn't always confident. She goes into a tizzy every time her grades are due, and I bet it's going to be the same every time there's an evaluation at her workplace. It's Ron who teasingly reminds her that she's got nothing to worry about. 

Hermione is so much more verbal than Ron that it's easy to think he doesn't know how to assert himself. But have you noticed that when Ron and Hermione are on their own, they do what Ron likes to do?  They go to Quidditch matches, they visit the candy store in Hogsmeade, and they *don't* go to the library. Fetching basilisk fangs from the Chamber is Ron's idea as well.

 But when Harry and Hermione are stuck together it's the other way around. It's Harry who doesn't know how to get his way, whether it's telling her he's really getting tired of hanging out in the library in GoF or giving in on Godric's Hollow in DH.

Pippin