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aprilstarchildGot one of the newest ADD books, by Hallowell and Ratey (they're sorta the gold standard on ADD books, they wrote Driven to Distraction, the first ADD book written for the public). It's called Delivered from Distraction. It's written in a slightly more humorous tone than in the past, and that's fine with me. I also like that they write books that aren't "dumbed down." Lots of ADD people have trouble reading, either from dyslexia or inability to focus, so books written for them have large type or a less complicated vocabulary. Grrr. I'm not stupid.
In any case, what everybody seems to emphasize over and over, is finding something you're good at and pursuing it. Not just because you'll be more likely to find a career you can stick with, but because if you've failed at things in life over and over, it's a huge self-esteem boost to be good at something.
I am notoriously bad at self-awareness (yeay, another typical ADD thing). So I'm asking you people:
WTF am I good at?
It doesn't have to be something that I could necessarily be paid to do.
Totally random: Someone is performing Personal Jesus on TV right now, on Fox. I don't know what Depeche Mode looks like, so I have no idea if that's who I'm looking at.
In any case, what everybody seems to emphasize over and over, is finding something you're good at and pursuing it. Not just because you'll be more likely to find a career you can stick with, but because if you've failed at things in life over and over, it's a huge self-esteem boost to be good at something.
I am notoriously bad at self-awareness (yeay, another typical ADD thing). So I'm asking you people:
WTF am I good at?
It doesn't have to be something that I could necessarily be paid to do.
Totally random: Someone is performing Personal Jesus on TV right now, on Fox. I don't know what Depeche Mode looks like, so I have no idea if that's who I'm looking at.
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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.
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Date: 2005-02-02 04:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-02 05:55 pm (UTC)Harry Potter started off as a kid. He's not anymore. He's the main character in a story about adventure. In every such story throughout history... he's the guy who gets the girl.
J.K. Rowling has been so uncharacteristically heavy-handed in dropping her Ron/Hermione hints that it simply has to be a red herring.
Why was Hermione sorted into Gryffindor? I mean that as a topic of discussion. I thnk it was Ernie McMillan who first voiced "why the hell is this girl not in Ravenclaw?" Well? Clearly the Sorting Hat knew that she was needed in Gryffindor and sorted her there despite the apparent mis-fit of her and her house. This is not that she's not brave, but a Gryffindor doesn't go around raising their hand in class and nagging her housemates to do their homework.
My take on question I posed is that she was put into Gryffindor because Harry was put into Gryffindor. The Sorting Hat knew damn well what to do with her: put her in a position to save the world. The Hat may have even been instructed to do so by Dumbledore.
Their bond (H/H) is way more significant than the bond between Ron and either of them. I'd go so far as to say Ron's expendable, story-wise. Hermione is ultimately the feminine power that balances the male (Harry) in the entire story. She is the goddess to his god.
Take for example (there are many such examples in the books) when Draco uses the phrase "I'll be dogging you" on the Hogwort's Express in year 5. H & H immediately understand that Draco had seen Sirius on the platform (and the implications, as it really meant Lucious had seen him) and Ron sat there stuffing his face with chocolate frogs. Oblivious. Clueless as always. Haryy and Hermione? Exchanging meaningful looks in silence. It's not Ron's fault. Ron is who he is - he's his father's son. He is cool by association. He's the frelling SIDEKICK. (for another example, see how H&H save Sirius while Ron is the damsel in distress in PoA.)
Have you EVER read an epic adventure in which the leading lady and *the leading man's sidekick* get together?
Count yourself among the millions of people who have completely had the wool pulled over their eyes by JKR with her "hints" that Ron & Hermione are meant to be a couple. And it's only "hints" if you could call being hit with a 2x4 in the nose a "hint."
But we'll see come july, eh?
And you can go ahead and send the H/H to my email ;-)