I really hated whenever the Mrs Weasley comparisons came up, they really bugged me.
I didn't have much use for Mrs. Weasley since the fourth book, when she chose to passive-aggressively punish a 14 year-old-girl that she had known for years because an article in the newspaper. She never apologized for it either. Just pretended it never happened.
With Hermione and Ron, there was lots of we're-attracted-to-each-other bickering (which, you know, I'm totally all over in some other ships!) but here it just...didn't seem to go anywhere - except in endless circles of bickering.
I am too, as you known. I've thought about this a lot in terms of which ships I'm into and which I can't stand and think you really nailed it. I don't like bickering love/hate ships. I like challenging toe-to-toe ships. The ones that the bickering doesn't come from personality conflicts, but because they both like the challenge of it all. LWD would just be another annoying show about blended families and sibling rivalry if it wasn't obvious that Derek and Casey were enjoying all their fighting. Nobody would have thought much about Josh's bantering with Donna (since everyone had witty exchanges with their assistants on The West Wing) if they both weren't having such a good time.
I think the idea that I really liked in the Harry/Hermione relationship was that they both sort of...challenged the other, and focused each other
And that's the key. If Hermione had the same bantering relationship with Harry as she did with Ron, it would still be different because they brought the best out of each other. Plus they had that deep bond of (not-exactly romantic) devotion that I always have a weakness for in all my ships.
(I used to want to write a post-war Harry/Hermione fic, that sort of said that, but without demonising Ron).
I'd love to read fics like that! They are very few and hard to find (especially considering how big the fandom is). I only wrote an actual Hermione/Harry fic once and in it Ron died. :-( I was overly influenced by cannon. I think that's why the desire to write anymore HP fic as dwindled down into nothing.
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Date: 2009-08-18 02:46 pm (UTC)I didn't have much use for Mrs. Weasley since the fourth book, when she chose to passive-aggressively punish a 14 year-old-girl that she had known for years because an article in the newspaper. She never apologized for it either. Just pretended it never happened.
With Hermione and Ron, there was lots of we're-attracted-to-each-other bickering (which, you know, I'm totally all over in some other ships!) but here it just...didn't seem to go anywhere - except in endless circles of bickering.
I am too, as you known. I've thought about this a lot in terms of which ships I'm into and which I can't stand and think you really nailed it. I don't like bickering love/hate ships. I like challenging toe-to-toe ships. The ones that the bickering doesn't come from personality conflicts, but because they both like the challenge of it all. LWD would just be another annoying show about blended families and sibling rivalry if it wasn't obvious that Derek and Casey were enjoying all their fighting. Nobody would have thought much about Josh's bantering with Donna (since everyone had witty exchanges with their assistants on The West Wing) if they both weren't having such a good time.
I think the idea that I really liked in the Harry/Hermione relationship was that they both sort of...challenged the other, and focused each other
And that's the key. If Hermione had the same bantering relationship with Harry as she did with Ron, it would still be different because they brought the best out of each other. Plus they had that deep bond of (not-exactly romantic) devotion that I always have a weakness for in all my ships.
(I used to want to write a post-war Harry/Hermione fic, that sort of said that, but without demonising Ron).
I'd love to read fics like that! They are very few and hard to find (especially considering how big the fandom is). I only wrote an actual Hermione/Harry fic once and in it Ron died. :-( I was overly influenced by cannon. I think that's why the desire to write anymore HP fic as dwindled down into nothing.