For me, personally, my problem with Harry/Hermione is not that people ship and like Harry and Hermione together, it's the fact that shipping them together seems to go hand-in-hand with Ron-bashing (or at the very least, the marginalization of Ron) 99% of the time. And that includes the movies. And that's the one thing in HP fandom I haven't gotten over.
How many scenes have there been with Harry and Hermione having "special bonding time" while Ron sits like a lump in the background? He's been stripped of every great moment he's had since PS/SS so that Harry and Hermione can be brought closer together. Instead of being the Trio, they're Gary Stu, Mary Sue, and the mangy dog they got stuck with. Maybe that's the closest they can get to portraying Ron as the abusive, traitorous, cowardly, murderous, rapist Death Eater he's been portrayed as in so many fics without wild deviation from the books. It's just me personally, but I often interpret the gushing as "Squeeeeeee! Harry and Hermione are together, and Ron has been dumped in his PROPER place." I'd like to think I'd be irritated if the movies were riddled with Ron/Hermione moments at the expense of Harry basically being cliqued out of the Trio and being portrayed as if Ron and Hermione were only friends with him out of some kind of charity. The fact that Kloves and whoever else is in charge couldn't be professional enough to leave their personal biases out of the movies is deeply offensive to me. (Yeah, yeah, Dan and Emma chemistry, blah blah blah, marketability, blah blah blah, Emma is gorgeous, blah blah blah, Rupert is ugly, blah blah blah, and all that junk.) Maybe feeling this way is majorly hypocritical of me since I ship(ped) Harry/Luna and can't stand Ginny, but that is how I feel.
You have gotten your way. Is it not enough?
Since I hated what JKR ultimately did with Ron/Hermione, canon doesn't make me feel any better. For that matter, I thought the Trio's characters were all written so horrendously in the last 2-3 books that I no longer really ship them with anyone (canonically). (Okay, I still ship Harry/Ron.)
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Date: Friday, October 8th, 2010 07:26 am (UTC)From:How many scenes have there been with Harry and Hermione having "special bonding time" while Ron sits like a lump in the background? He's been stripped of every great moment he's had since PS/SS so that Harry and Hermione can be brought closer together. Instead of being the Trio, they're Gary Stu, Mary Sue, and the mangy dog they got stuck with. Maybe that's the closest they can get to portraying Ron as the abusive, traitorous, cowardly, murderous, rapist Death Eater he's been portrayed as in so many fics without wild deviation from the books. It's just me personally, but I often interpret the gushing as "Squeeeeeee! Harry and Hermione are together, and Ron has been dumped in his PROPER place." I'd like to think I'd be irritated if the movies were riddled with Ron/Hermione moments at the expense of Harry basically being cliqued out of the Trio and being portrayed as if Ron and Hermione were only friends with him out of some kind of charity. The fact that Kloves and whoever else is in charge couldn't be professional enough to leave their personal biases out of the movies is deeply offensive to me. (Yeah, yeah, Dan and Emma chemistry, blah blah blah, marketability, blah blah blah, Emma is gorgeous, blah blah blah, Rupert is ugly, blah blah blah, and all that junk.) Maybe feeling this way is majorly hypocritical of me since I ship(ped) Harry/Luna and can't stand Ginny, but that is how I feel.
You have gotten your way. Is it not enough?
Since I hated what JKR ultimately did with Ron/Hermione, canon doesn't make me feel any better. For that matter, I thought the Trio's characters were all written so horrendously in the last 2-3 books that I no longer really ship them with anyone (canonically). (Okay, I still ship Harry/Ron.)