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[ladyzenobia.livejournal.com]

http://www.hypable.com/2014/02/01/jk-rowling-ron-hermione-relationship-regret-interview/

“I wrote the Hermione/Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfillment,” she says. “That’s how it was conceived, really. For reasons that have very little to do with literature and far more to do with me clinging to the plot as I first imagined it, Hermione ended up with Ron.”

Have you seen this? I think it's interesting that she said that she was clinging to the plot as she first imagined it. That explains a lot about the epilogue!

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[hwyla.livejournal.com]

And to think Harry dislikes Sluggy for his 'collecting'...It does rather sound as if Harry is using Hermione's brains rather than actually liking her. But then, it isn't as if Harry ever had a good role model for friendships.

Truthfully, Hermione is the one that acts like a real friend. The boys however, never really seem to treat her as if she's more than homework help. At least not until Ron's jealousy acts up.

[jodel-from-aol.livejournal.com]

Well, to be fair, Hermione attached herself to the boys rather than them cultivating her for what she could do for them. It would have served them right if their both shutting her out in PoA had been permanent. I think it was only their mutual friendship with Hagrid that stuck them back together.

But no. They don't really treat her at all well. And she to all appearances puts up with it in order to have any friends at all.

And, Word, regarding Harry's skill at being a friend to anybody. Despite all of Albus's flannel-mouthed flattery on how Harry's great advantage over Tom was Love, it's made fairly obvious that the boy has serious attachment problems. Not as bad as Tom, certainly, but still...

In the last of my Potterverse essays I finally concluded that the power that Voldemort "knew not" was nothing more or less than the power to master the Elder Wand.

No one else had ever done it. Certainly none of the living holders of that wand ever admitted to having the mastery of it. I think that none of its holders *ever* actually had it. Death may have handed it over to Antioc Peverill, but it was always still *his*.

And Draco Malfoy had nothing to do with it.

[madderbrad.livejournal.com]

ruthfully, Hermione is the one that acts like a real friend. The boys however, never really seem to treat her as if she's more than homework help. At least not until Ron's jealousy acts up.

That's largely the case, sadly. A lot of the material for H/Hr, particularly from the early books, was all one-way. Hermione really *worked* at the friendship. She had a 'saving harry thing'. But Harry rarely reciprocated to the same extent.

At least in the early books. The bulk of book #5 was 'The Harry and Hermione show'. In book 6 I was pleasantly surprised at the efforts Harry took to be a good friend to both Ron *and* Hermione; he made the choice to support both of them while they carrying on with Rowling's asinine 'jealousy flags real love' programme.

But then in book 7 he was a total bastiche when it came to the tent scene, leaving Hermione to sob herself to sleep night after night with almost no comfort coming from her 'best friend'.

There *were* some slabs of true friendship from Harry; enough for fanfic authors to use. :-) And heaps from Hermione, of course. Enough overall to have kept the H/Hr fans happy over the years.

(Their number now including one J. Rowling, it appears. :-))

[terri-testing.livejournal.com]

"To think Harry dislikes sluggy for his 'collecting'....

Er, truth hurts?

Nothing worse than an utterfly unflattering mirror, eh?