Date: Saturday, January 26th, 2013 03:55 pm (UTC)From:nobleplatypus
EXACTLY.
I sort of feel like JKR was trying to emulate Beatrice and Benedict from "Much Ado About Nothing" with the whole, "Look, they bicker! It's because they're in loooove!" thing. Except in "Much Ado," they're both adults and it's implied that they actually used to get along fairly well and then had a falling out. The bickering is like a coping mechanism, because they're both hurt and don't want to admit it.
Whereas in HP, there's never any kind of hint or inkling that Ron and Hermione are capable of anything but bickering. That is all they've ever done since they met. Sure, they care about each other, and if one gets hurt the other gets upset about it--that makes sense, because they're friends, and you'd have to be pretty callous to not care that your friend is in the hospital wing--but that's not enough to sustain a romantic relationship when they pretty much have nothing else in common.
Honestly, I could have done without ANY shipping among the main trio, but I have to say, when the locket Horcrux was all "JEEZ RON WHY WOULD HERMIONE EVER DATE YOU?" I was like, "VOLDY HAS A POINT GUYS."
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Date: Saturday, January 26th, 2013 03:55 pm (UTC)From:I sort of feel like JKR was trying to emulate Beatrice and Benedict from "Much Ado About Nothing" with the whole, "Look, they bicker! It's because they're in loooove!" thing. Except in "Much Ado," they're both adults and it's implied that they actually used to get along fairly well and then had a falling out. The bickering is like a coping mechanism, because they're both hurt and don't want to admit it.
Whereas in HP, there's never any kind of hint or inkling that Ron and Hermione are capable of anything but bickering. That is all they've ever done since they met. Sure, they care about each other, and if one gets hurt the other gets upset about it--that makes sense, because they're friends, and you'd have to be pretty callous to not care that your friend is in the hospital wing--but that's not enough to sustain a romantic relationship when they pretty much have nothing else in common.
Honestly, I could have done without ANY shipping among the main trio, but I have to say, when the locket Horcrux was all "JEEZ RON WHY WOULD HERMIONE EVER DATE YOU?" I was like, "VOLDY HAS A POINT GUYS."