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Disclaimer: I own nothing, Harry Potter and his friends belong to J. K. Rowling.

A/N: I have several random thoughts on Harry Potter Fan-fiction this is my soapbox to rant, praise or say WTF!!!

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Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger

"Hey Hermione, what are you looking at?"

"Oh, just a picture of Ron."

"You know you could do better."

With a long sigh she closed her eyes and said, "sometimes I think the same thing he really is too jealous and immature for his age. I guess I could blame it on his childhood and the way he was raised but then again he is old enough to make a mature decision and quit being so childish."

"Well if he's acting this way at sixteen then how will it be five or ten years from now?"

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Seven books show Ron as being short tempered, irrational, and childish. In every book he put down Hermione, constantly started arguments with her because he refused her point of view, and ignored her yet he was always the most jealous when someone else noticed her, which leads to the belief that he was waiting for something better to come his way but just in case it didn't he didn't want anyone else getting her. They may never have kissed if Hermione hadn't made the move that she did. Some say he was shy but it didn't prevent him from sucking face with Lavender. When he did give her compliments it was due to a book he read. I think his upbringing played a large part in his character, he never saw what he had in his family as anything much more than poor and embarrassing. Anyone having more than he did was someone to be jealous of, I think that is why he always argued with Hermione, eventually something like that will turn into constant insults. Most likely he would never become abusive physically but there are several loose definitions of abuse even a fear that he would leave her like he did in book seven would be mentally abusive.

Some have called Hermione a diamond in the rough she easily gets the award for being the favorite female caricature she is also the one with the lowest self esteem. Her parents were successful muggle dentists which leads one to believe that they were well educated. They probably pushed her into studying hard and learning all she could about everything. She was probably a little nerdy in school and didn't have many friends. Made fun of due to her overbite. She would have easily turned to her studies as a substitute for friends. A few said at first that it was not normal for a girl to be such good friends with two boys, I think being rescued from a troll by two boys made her feel special that's why she clung to their friendship. Yes she was irritating at times but always in a protective and caring way and she did lighten up throughout the books.

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Epic Disaster

"Hermione, why didn't we end up together in the end?"

"Well Harry book six and seven drifted away from that pairing not to mention the epilogue at the end."

"Still I think we would have made a good pair."

"Yes it would have been nice to have been Hermione Potter, Perhaps someone will write a good Fan-fiction that will solve this problem maybe even a book eight"

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Years of waiting for each book to be published and well over three hundred U.S. dollars spent on purchasing the hard back edition of the books and also every movie released so far. Then I read the epilogue in book seven...Ugh!

Actually Books six, and seven seemed to take a definite turn from how the first five in the series began. I'm not saying I didn't like the last two books because I did I even enjoyed the downfall of old moldyshorts. However Bumbledore was very manipulative and it just seemed to convenient how everything fell perfectly into place. I guess that's why my favorite fan-fic's are set after the Department of Mysteries.

I search still for a cannon compliant fan fiction that is post war and results with Harry and Hermione ending up together and is non-epilogue compliant. meaning that neither Ron nor Ginny has to die or be in a coma and Harry and Hermione doesn't have an affair. I would love to read a diverted one-shot, a short story, or novel length fic that is set after Deathly Hollows Chapter Thirty-Six (page 750) minus the ripped out and stomped on epilogue.

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