i said 2k19 because there’s less than one month left of 2018 so i guess i can let you off the hook for the moment but in 2019 we are giving ron the love he deserves and that is not up for debate
When the ‘just…there’ Romione moment happens in HBP
Most Romione shippers: Ahhhhh, so cute! So sweet! Love it!
Me: Emma, why does your “embarrassed” face look like a mix of nauseated and irritated?
‘I’ll make Goyle do lines, it’ll kill him, he hates writing,’ said Ron happily. He lowered his voice to Goyle’s low grunt and, screwing up his face in a look of pained concentration, mimed writing in midair. ‘I … must … not … look … like … a … baboon’s … backside. ‘
Everyone laughed, but nobody laughed harder than Luna Lovegood. She let out a scream of mirth that caused Hedwig to wake up and flap her wings indignantly and Crookshanks to leap up into the luggage rack, hissing. Luna laughed so hard her magazine slipped out of her grasp, slid down her legs, and onto the floor.
‘That was funny!’
Her prominent eyes swam with tears as she gasped for breath, staring at Ron. Utterly nonplussed, he looked around at the others, who were now laughing at the expression on Ron’s face and at the ludicrously prolonged laughter of Luna Lovegood, who was rocking backwards and forwards, clutching her sides.
‘Are you taking the mickey?’ said Ron, frowning at her.
‘Baboon’s … backside!’ she choked, holding her ribs.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Awww I keep forgetting how adorable Luna’s crush on Ron was
Having said that; for someone who’s supposedly in love with Ron, Hermione didn’t give much of a response to the boy she fancies getting her perfume for Christmas.
Seriously, Hermione; “unusual”? That’s the best response you could come up with to describe it? Jeez, no wonder it took him three years to figure out she fancied him…
“Hermione and Belle are like perfect head and heart girls, they have both. They’re super smart but have this incredible empathy and compassion and ability to see, kind of, beyond things and be non-judgemental.”
Now it’s clear, Emma. You never quite understood your character.
Hermione, non-judgemental? She probably haven’t heard the word at all.
Where was Hermione’s empathy and compassion when Lavender lost her pet rabbit? Oh, I remember, that scene got deleted in the movies!
Who’s responsible to this all? Of course the good ol’ Steve Kloves. Sometimes even professional writers forget that super humans with no flaws are not believable.
Emma really needs to re-read the books again….
You can tell how badly she fell for Kloves’ distorted versions of the characters.
I think calling Steve Kloves ‘a professional writer’ is actually insulting to writers. Kloves might have done other good work, but his ‘adaptation’ of the HP series was basically just a H*rmione fanfiction with an almost-flawless Hermione, a generic protagonist Harry, and comedic sidekick Ron. Shame on Kloves.
Kloves frankly hijacked the series from JKR and that’s the hill I’m gonna die on.
He has no talent nor writing ability, he’s just good at picking a better writer then trying to make THEIR story fit HIS perception of what the story is.
I think that the HP series would look different, had Rowling not been so taken with Kloves’ Hermione-worship. Perhaps Hermione’s jealousy of Harry in HBP would be amped up. Perhaps Ron’s behaviour during the Horcrux Hunt would be described differently, with less “complaining about food” and more “sick, and out of mind with worry because Ginny is held hostage at Hogwarts”.
All in all… without Steve Kloves, I think the Harry Potter books would look much, much better.
Agreed.
(Maybe there’s some reality where Kloves never went near HP, and Rowling didn’t get influenced by his way of thinking. I hope so. Lucky reality.)
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disagree and agree. i agree that “albus severus” was a bad move on jkr’s part. i mean, i’m okay with harry forgiving snape. It’s not for me to decide whether a victim should forgive their bully but to name your child after a spiteful, vile and unhappy man? hell no. i’m definitely biased over here but in my culture, we don’t name our children after people who’ve had shitty lives, because names are powerful. It’s as simple as that.
however, that does not mean that the epilogue is the worst chapter in the books and the way some hp fans talk about it, you’d think that jk rowling pissed on their plants. there are many things that shouldn’t have happened in the books. for example, ron bumping his head after his quidditch victory. dumbledore telling harry that he was going to make him a perfect instead of ron. a certain aspect of the lavender business that I won’t elaborate on or the hermione stans will eat me. But the epilogue gets more hate than it deserves.
I’ve noticed that most people only hate the Epilogue because their garbage ships got sunk. And sorry not sorry but most of fandumb’s crack-ships aren’t any better than the canon ships, and there’s nothing you can say that’ll change my mind. Heck, I’ve actually read a so-called “better” version of the epilogue and it was the fucking same (word by word actually) except it was gross dr*rry instead of hinny and cho x ginny except for drastoria (they didn’t change romione, though.) congrats to the author for adding diversity but shame on the author for thinking that dreary dr*rry is better than a wholesome ship like Harry x Ginny.
Basically, most people only hate the epilogue because they don’t like the canon ships and I drink the salty tears of non-canon shippers daily. I don’t know why they even care about the endgames considering that they end up divorcing them in their fics for obscure reasons I have yet to understand.
@ronandhappiness So, basically, most of the things that shouldn’t have happened in the books tend to revolve around ‘Rowling putting Ron Weasley through the blender just for spite’. Can’t say I disagree with that assessment.
No, please elaborate about the Lavender business. You piqued my interest now! I’m sure most Hermione fans who follow our blogs understand that our problems aren’t so much with the character but the author.
I don’t personally mind the epilogue. Although I have very mixed feelings about Harry and Ginny naming all their kids after other people (although Lily Luna is quite a sweet name). I think the way Ron and Hermione named their kids was better (also, having their initials swapping genders was a nice touch). Although I suppose Ron understood the difficulty of having to live up to someone-else’s reputation, and didn’t want that to happen to their children.
Having said that, I was a bit worried about the fact that Slytherin still had a bad reputation even 19 years later. I know Harry and Ginny didn’t have any problems with Slytherin, but the stigma still exists after almost two decades later.
The house system caused so many problems at Hogwarts, why didn’t the lightning generation realise that it would make more sense to either de-stigmatise Slytherin or just get rid of house divides altogether? Having Slytherin still be seen as ‘the evil house’ implies that nothing ever actually changed, and that the problems that created the wizarding wars were never gotten rid of. Unless the Wizarding World completely reformed itself from the ground-up, another Voldemort could easily occur in the future.
That’s just my thoughts, though; what do you all think?
Yeah, apart from representation, most of my problems with the Harry Potter books have something to do with Ron Weasley. I did like Ron’s “not famous” line but I didn’t like the Romione exchange. Nineteen years had passed and Ron still doubted if Hermione had faith in him. Really, Hermione? You made him feel like he couldn’t even pass a driving test? (Yeah, I know she ended up saying, “I had complete faith in you”, but it contradicts what Ron said.)
No, I have nothing new to say about the Lavender business. Just stuff I’ve already said before, which is why I didn’t feel the need to repeat them. 🙂
Yes of course! Completely agree with the Slytherin thing. The whole “it’s been 19 years but people still hate slytherins lolzzz” thing was also dumb.
Very true. The fact that Hermione didn’t seem to have made efforts to understand Ron’s insecurities was quite worrying. Even after almost twenty years, he doubts that the person he married actually has faith in his abilities. That’s quite sad when you look at it. Although, did we really except much from Rowling, considering her habit of using Ron’s insecurities as comic relief?
Fair enough. 🙂
Exactly; the Slytherin thing really baffled me. It’s almost like the war was for nothing, and that it’s a cyclical world where wizarding wars happen every thirty-odd years when pureblood-supremacy resurfaces. It feels like Harry’s generation were never actually able to change anything.
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