headcanonsandmore:

headcanonsandmore:

Let’s be honest, Harry’s more likely to kiss Ron than he is to kiss Hermione. 

@amyk712 This wasn’t aimed at me, but I sure as heck am gonna comment! This post was intended as a joke, and was tagged with ‘anti-harmony’ and ‘no offence to those who ship it but it’s not my thing’. I never intended to insult anyone who ships Harry x Hermione, as I have no interest in engaging in shipping wars. My apologies if you feel offended by this post. 

At no point did I ever try to imply that people who prefer the Harry x Hermione ship are somehow ‘cringy’, and I am deeply sorry if that’s how this post came across. That was never my intention. 

Like you say, let people ship who they ship. If you personally feel Harry and Hermione have more potential as a relationship than Ron and Hermione, that’s fine. But I personally do not, as I’ve always seen Harry and Hermione’s relationship as that of brother-and-sister. That was all this post was; a personal opinion given in a humour way. 

Funnily enough, I have read the Wonderland interview. I really hate to be ‘that guy’ but that interview has been taken almost entirely out of context; Emma Watson has (even from the very early days of the series) been a big fan of Ron x Hermione, and even pointed out in the Wonderland interview that she found it strange to be acting out non-quite-platonic scenes between Harry and Hermione:

“Watson: (talking about the Harry and Hermione dance scene in DH Part 1) This is just so interesting because when I was doing the scene, I said to David [Heyman]: “This isn’t in the book, she didn’t write this.” I’m not sure I am comfortable insinuating something however subtle it is!”

This post was not intended to offend anyone, and I apologise if it did. I never expected this post to venture outside of the Romione side of tumblr, and I apologise again if my post has offended anyone. 

@amyk712 No problem; I always try and be thoughtful in my responses to people, no matter how different their opinions are to mine. 🙂 Fair enough; I personally quite like the way Ron and Hermione’s personalities mesh together. It’s the ‘opposites attract’ thing, I suppose. Ron is easy-going where Hermione is intense. Hermione is logical where Ron is more emotion-based. I think they balance each-other out quite well. I always thought Harry and Hermione worked best as friends (I personally find their personalities a little too similar to work romantically), but I don’t have anything against people who do ship them as a couple. 

Fair point. I think it’s also important to remember that they also talked about whether Hermione could make Ron happy, which often gets overlooked. I’ve personally never seen Ron and Hermione’s relationship as ‘combative’; if they didn’t get along, they’d wouldn’t have been friends for seven years before they became a couple. There’s a really great post by @owlpostagain about the way Ron and Hermione argue (which you can find here), which I feel explains their dynamic pretty well. I think that, while on paper, it might seem that Ron and Hermione are incompatible, the reality is quite different. Many adult couples have relationships that are quite similar, and I can think of plenty of IRL couples I know that are happily together, despite how much their personalities should not work together (hypothetically speaking). I suppose it depends on what you look for in pairings. 

Thanks again for commenting; I enjoy discussing these subjects with people in a calm and rational manner, since I don’t like getting involved in shipping wars. I apologise if this post upset you, and I hope that Romione and Harmione shippers can get along in the fandom despite their differences in opinion over these pairings.