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...Shipping...
Jul. 24th, 2005 08:42 pmI know very few--if any--interested people will see this, but I know this has become a major issue in the shipping community and I'd like to show my solidarity.
I know, we've just heard that Hermione and Ron are pretty much destined for each other, so Harry and Hermione won't end up together in book 7. But take comfort! Hermione and Ron didn't get together in book 6. They dated others in transparent attempts to make each other jealous, Ron's one confession of love was treated as a normal reaction to a homework assignment, and in general their behavior towards each other was counter-productive. So while the H/R shippers laugh because H/H is not happening, I recommend the H/H shippers laugh because H/R is also not happening, and at this rate never will.
Note: I am neither a Harry/Hermione or a Ron/Hermione shipper. I wasn't a shipper at all until nearly the end of book 6, when I became a shipper of a newly-introduced relationship that pleases me greatly. So don't take offense at my comments.
[6/28/2018: Much later update: I'm pro-R/H by now, but the critical point was that Ron finally grew up in DH. Harry/Ginny and Remus/Tonks are still much more interesting to me.]
I know, we've just heard that Hermione and Ron are pretty much destined for each other, so Harry and Hermione won't end up together in book 7. But take comfort! Hermione and Ron didn't get together in book 6. They dated others in transparent attempts to make each other jealous, Ron's one confession of love was treated as a normal reaction to a homework assignment, and in general their behavior towards each other was counter-productive. So while the H/R shippers laugh because H/H is not happening, I recommend the H/H shippers laugh because H/R is also not happening, and at this rate never will.
Note: I am neither a Harry/Hermione or a Ron/Hermione shipper. I wasn't a shipper at all until nearly the end of book 6, when I became a shipper of a newly-introduced relationship that pleases me greatly. So don't take offense at my comments.
[6/28/2018: Much later update: I'm pro-R/H by now, but the critical point was that Ron finally grew up in DH. Harry/Ginny and Remus/Tonks are still much more interesting to me.]
