Hi thank you so much for your Many posts spreading Love of Romione with such accuracy and eloquence. It makes me so happy seeing such well done defense for them in 2024! I would to hear anything else lovely you have to say about Romione forever and ever thank you (Maybe your Favorite Romione moment? Or When, in your opinion they fell in love with each other?) thank you!!!!! ❤️
thank you very much, anon! this is extremely lovely of you.
i've got one favourite romione moment here, but another is her being genuinely won over by ron's improved rizz once he's had a flick through twelve fail-safe ways to charm witches:
“Nice,” said Ron, as with one final flourish of her wand, Hermione turned the leaves on the crabapple tree to gold. “You’ve really got an eye for that sort of thing.”
“Thank you, Ron!” said Hermione, looking both pleased and a little confused. Harry turned away, smiling to himself. He had a funny notion that he would find a chapter on compliments when he found time to peruse his copy of Twelve Fail-Safe Ways to Charm Witches.
hermione has a bit of a reputation in this fandom - largely, i think, due to the fact that she's written as so prim in the films - for being someone with an extremely low tolerance for frivolity. but, in the books, she's clearly perfectly capable of being silly and funny and a bit of a hopeless romantic. her being sincerely delighted to have the boy she fancies gas up her way with a wand [behave] is something so sweetly teenage that it always makes me smile - even before the added poignancy of the fact that this is a small joy for her after she's vanished from her parents' minds and is preparing to go on the run at any moment is taken into account.
it's why she decides to pack his tight jeans. change my mind.
as for when ron and hermione fell in love?
on the train. harry's reaction to meeting her is "wtf? moving on..." but ron is so bothered by her - groaning when she's sorted into gryffindor! my guy! - and she is so bothered by him - as we see in literally everything she does in the opening half of philosopher's stone - and this constant, prickling irritation, this desire to know what someone is up to at all times, this commitment to caring about what they do and say and think of you... is a very good indicator of love at first sight.
so - of course - it takes harry six more years to work out what's going on.
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The fandom likes to talk about how Ron was willing to let himself get hit by the Cruciatus curse in order to prevent Hermione from getting tortured. What happens afterwards, though, is that Romione shippers argue about how Harry hadn't done anything like that. After all, he was just asking Ron to shut up.
This, they claim, is evidence that Ron cares more about Hermione than Harry does. Or that Harry doesn't care about her at all.
I do think what Ron did here is very admirable, and there's absolutely nothing to critique about that. What I hate is how it turns into Harry bashing to justify shipping Romione.
First, it's important to keep in mind that Harry's comparatively more level-headed than Ron is. He's not as emotional & he rarely displays them openly (and when he does, it's in Hermione's presence, but that's something for another post).
As Harry wanted to figure out a way from the problem, he was getting disturbed by Ron screaming, which was affected his. concentration. Unlike Ron, who was reacting emotionally, Harry wanted to think about whether they would be able to escape the place. That's why he was asking him to shut up.
And that's a good thing. When you are in trouble and someone you like is getting tortured, you attempt to try and escape instead of getting carried away by your emotions.
To try and spin Harry trying to save Hermione into "he doesn't care about her" is a flat-out lie.
Honestly, if I were Harry, I'd be pretty pissed as well. Just look at it:
"HERMIONE!” Ron bellowed, and he started to writhe and
struggle against the ropes tying them together, so that Harry stag-
gered. “HERMIONE!”
“Be quiet!” Harry said. “Shut up. Ron, we need to work out a
way—“
“HERMIONE! HERMIONE!”
“We need a plan, stop yelling—we need to get these ropes off—"
Harry wants to get the bindings off and work out a way. He wants to save Hermione, instead of just screaming to the void.
If even more evidence were needed:
Hermione was screaming again: The sound went through Harry
like physical pain. Barely conscious of the fierce prickling of his
scar, he too started to run around the cellar, feeling the walls for
he hardly knew what, knowing in his heart that it was useless.
Her screaming "went through Harry like physical pain". And, also notice how he was "barely conscious of the prickling on his scar".
He's only done that once before, and that was when he was thinking about Sirius.
His love for Hermione is so powerful that he was able to block Voldemort out of his mind.
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