Harry x Hermione. I always considered them to be siblings, and I’ve never quite understood why people think that they could have worked as a couple, since their personalities don’t react well together.
Don’t get me wrong, when I first read PS/SS, I thought the bit where Hermione hugged Harry was very cute. But it was in an innocent, ‘11-year-old boy gets embarrassed because his female friend hugged him’ kind-of-way. Nothing especially romantic.
The series is from Harry’s perspective. If he had ever fancied Hermione, we probably would have heard about it.
I don’t have any massive problems with the ship itself (they have a canonical caring, close relationship), but a small minority of those who ship it have a habit of bashing Ron Weasley, and dismissing Hermione’s feelings for Ron as ‘he could never make her happy’. Which I think is just being rude about the characters. This small minority remind me of people who assume that it’s impossible for opposite-gender friendships to exist without romance getting involved.
I think that the HP film series had a serious impact on how many in the fandom viewed Harry and Hermione’s relationship (as well as Ron and Hermione’s). The films based their friendship around the idea that the trio are in the Hollywood ‘hero, heroine, sidekick’ mould, rather than ‘Harry, and his two friends who happened to fall in love’.
No disrespect to those who ship it, but it’s not my cup of tea.
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