I get very emotional when I think about this scene. If you notice, before Ron rescue Hermione, she seems very apathetic, without any emotion. Probably hopeless and waiting for death. Then she hears his voice. His voice. The love of her life. And her eyes instantly comes to life. It’s beautiful.
#I wish that scene had been as intense as it is in the book #especially on ron’s side because he’s sobbing and hitting the wall with his fists in the book #and he just cannot control himself as he listens to the love of his life getting tortured #and it literally kills him #and it would have been awesome because rupert would have given the most amazing performance #and this scene would have been the most painful and heartbreaking scene ever and would have killed us all #IT WOULD HAVE BEEN GREAT #I WANTED TO HAVE MY SOUL KILLED #but instead I got a ‘oh no leave hermione alone please’ and then ron charging them #THE END
#this is why I waited months and years to watch the last movie#the booooooooooooks#especially Ron in the books#I mean if Ron and Hermione hadn’t been such a formative romance in my life#the movies would probably have made me ship Harry and Hermione with the stupid and wonderful dancing scene#I MEAN WHAT IS THAT
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# I technically don’t ship it # but # the h/hr people on my dash are wonderful and have made me appreciate this relationship
As a R/Hr shipper (maybe especially so?), I have to agree. I definitely think the H/Hr shippers that I’ve encountered on Tumblr are just all around great people, full stop, which makes it all the more saddening to reflect on past and present pettiness. Either way, I think what mainly got everyone riled up (or still does, because fandom is cyclical and [especially horrible] old habits die hard) is the argument about interpretation, and how strictly everyone should be confined to one version or another. I actually really like the dancing scene in DH Pt. 1, for example, because I think it’s sweet and reads as purely platonic, but I still resent being told that that means I’m viewing it incorrectly. I don’t care if it makes people ship it — I just want to appreciate it the way I see it. It follows what I think a great friend would do for another when they’re both feeling low, and the fact that it was a brief moment that clearly didn’t make Ron’s absence all better reinforces the idea of the trio as a unit.
I have major problems with Hermione’s line about staying in the forest and growing old together for precisely this reason, because I find it not only extraneous — it also negates the undercurrent of connectivity amongst the three of them that’s so important. The shippy stuff really doesn’t matter to me in light of that transgression. And I think it’s one of the biggest weaknesses of the film adaptations, really; the way Ron’s friendship with either Harry or Hermione is vastly underplayed and how he, as a character, thus becomes more of an afterthought when they’re ALL integral to the group. If anything, the dilution of Ron and Harry’s friendship disappoints me the most because they’re clearly brothers in the books in every way minus biology, and the films would have Ron be nothing more than the lone Obligatory Guy Friend who’s there to look more scared than Harry when they’re in danger. FAIL.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_liky5b2tX41qad73go1_500.png)
