[ SECRET POST #354 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #364 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Liz, aliens, you know the drill!

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Comments

24, 35, 47

[auraunda.livejournal.com]

24 - I can guarantee you that you're not the only one who had that cross their mind. Hell, I was wondering that too from my first readthrough years upon years ago. It says in one of the books that they're not (one of the ones where Nita's freaking out about her and Kit in the future, I don't remember specifically), but it's still a pairing that could definitely make sense to me. And whether they are or not, their banter is still highly, highly amusing.

35 - ...You sound like my ex-roommate and that's... not exactly a compliment. I didn't dislike Harmonians until she started trying to stuff it down my throat - and then all the reasons they aren't perfect for each other come into view. The biggest and most important to me is, they aren't equals and they don't treat each other as such. One is always, always above the other. They're wonderful, amazing, great for each other friends, but they just don't have the dynamic, especially from Harry's end, to make it as a couple.

I blame this partially on the movies. They got rid of quite a few of the key scenes for Ron (and a few for Hermione), meaning some things that happened had to be switched around and assigned to other characters. Case in point, in Philosopher's Stone: in the book, they fall into the Devil's Snare, Hermione jumps away before she gets caught and panics. She gets better at it, but at that point in time she isn't able to cope very well with short-term thinking in the face of danger. Ron yells "Are you a witch or aren't you?!" and she remembers what she can do, produces flame, and burns the plants back to free the boys. Later, after the chess match, she gets her time to shine as her logic and reason is brought up in the potions puzzle Snape leaves. Ron couldn't have done that. But he got the "chess scene" and the potions would make a really boring movie segment, so their reactions to the plant got entirely reversed and therefore part of their character in the view of the public. Obviously, the kids grow up and their weaknesses get levied somewhat by experience and knowledge, until in DH Hermione's doing quite a fair bit of the short-term thinking (though still mostly the result of her long-range planning, interestingly). But the movies still change both Hermione and Ron, especially Ron, to something they weren't quite in the books. They make movie!Hermione more accessible to shipping with Harry because they also take away a lot of the things that show that Harry just does not have as much fun with her as with Ron - such as in GoF when he thinks about how having Hermione as a best friend is a lot more boring.

Whatever floats your boat and all, but I was seeing the R/Hr hints from PoA, and I didn't "ship" them until OotP. They're there. If you don't like it, that's fine, but it sure makes sense to me.

47 - You just made my day a little brighter ♥