Harry/Hermione is just wrong. Harry/Ginny? Sure. Harry/Luna Lovegood? A bit tricky, but a good author could make it believable. Harry knows she isn't as crazy as she appears, and they have something in common that most people don't (the whole people that they love dying thing--him with Sirius and her with her mother) and understand each other better than a lot of people. Same for Ginny--outside of her early crush on Harry, they're friends now and have both had run-ins with Voldemort, she's only a year younger and she's probably quite attractive.
Ron/Hermione is a hell of a lot more likely. The way they react around each other in four and five, it's obvious that Ron has a crush on her and refuses to admit it. This is especially evident when Hermione mentions Viktor Krum. I doubt the feeling is returned, but she has two more books to go and Ron will probably start to grow up a little.
And as a random side note: slash, technically speaking, is homoerotic by definition. Het pairings have gotten the convention of being designated by /, just like slash pairings are (it being, of course, the origin of the term slash), but erotic het fiction is relatively new on the fandom front and isn't part of the term.
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Date: 2005-02-02 04:32 am (UTC)Harry/Hermione is just wrong. Harry/Ginny? Sure. Harry/Luna Lovegood? A bit tricky, but a good author could make it believable. Harry knows she isn't as crazy as she appears, and they have something in common that most people don't (the whole people that they love dying thing--him with Sirius and her with her mother) and understand each other better than a lot of people. Same for Ginny--outside of her early crush on Harry, they're friends now and have both had run-ins with Voldemort, she's only a year younger and she's probably quite attractive.
Ron/Hermione is a hell of a lot more likely. The way they react around each other in four and five, it's obvious that Ron has a crush on her and refuses to admit it. This is especially evident when Hermione mentions Viktor Krum. I doubt the feeling is returned, but she has two more books to go and Ron will probably start to grow up a little.
And as a random side note: slash, technically speaking, is homoerotic by definition. Het pairings have gotten the convention of being designated by /, just like slash pairings are (it being, of course, the origin of the term slash), but erotic het fiction is relatively new on the fandom front and isn't part of the term.