parvasrlee:
Bless that post!!!!!
^^^THIS!!! I remember reading another article during promo from DH Part One that said the same thing: Ron and Hermione both love Harry and that’s what they have in common, they don’t have mutual love towards each other. If it wasn’t for Harry, they wouldn’t even have been in each other’s orbits. And even then he had to work so hard to keep them civil at various times. I never sensed some “heart-pounding/earth-shattering” love between them.
And I agree about the “opposites attract” comment. It’s so cliche—it’s as cliche as the “hero gets the heroine” which is what some canon shippers accuse Harry and Hermione of being. When that isn’t exactly true since Hermione is not the “heroine” of the story per se.