Board 8 > It's been over ten years. We need to decide.

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Should Harry really have ended up with Ginny, or was she always boring and he shouldve gotten together with Hermione or someone else?
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I personally like HarryXGinny and RonXHermione, especially RonXHermione so definitely not HarryXHermione. I can see the arguments against Ginny and him but eh, I still like it. Although Ginny was bitchy to Luna which always made me sad
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Shoulda stuck with Cho
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Oh yea that date with Harry and Cho in the fifth book is lowkey one of the best parts of the entire series and it got left out of the movies. Only one of the reasons why the fifth movie is the worst of all the movies.
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harry/ginny isn't that great but ron/hermione is so it all turned out ok
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I dislike HarryXGinny quite a bit :(
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Mostly because Ginny was never really an interesting character to me at all
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I wouldn't have minded HarryxHermione honestly, but the canon pairings are fine too.
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Ron/Hermione screamed canon from the first book and felt like a natural progression. Therefore, I would not have liked a Harry/Hermione pairing because it would have broken that progression, unless it was done as an interesting twist that turned the trio into a love triangle, only for them to reunite later.

That said, Ginny was uninteresting and didn't receive any significant development, nor did she and Harry have any sort of connection until later on. It would have felt more natural if, say, Harry and Cho had hit it off, but then Cho got killed by Bellatrix Lestrange or one of Voldemort's other thugs and Ginny was there to support him. As it was, Harry/Ginny just didn't seem to work for me, and the fact that the deuteragonist (I'm actually not sure if that's Ron or Hermione...) was the one who had the fleshed-out love story made the protagonist less interesting.

Due to the ending feeling incomplete and unsatisfying, I haven't cared for much in the way of further content and have hardly gone back to what was.
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I always took HarryxGinny being a case of Harry being in love with Ron and settling for the next best thing.
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The romance was absolutely the worst part of the series.

HarryXGinny was so shoehorned in because it's what some very vocal fans wanted.
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People wanted Harry/Ginny? Weird.There's very little chemistry there imo.
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I thought this topic was about your sig
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Various fan fictions that maintain the integrity of the characters personalities have convinced me Harry x Hermione is the correct pairing. Idk who Ron ends up with but im okay with that.
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At the time I thought Phoenix was setting up Luna as the love interest.
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Shadow Dino posted...

At the time I thought Phoenix was setting up Luna as the love interest.

Just about every girl was more interesting than Ginny, but Luna especially.
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HarryXLuna would have made a thousand times more sense than HarryXGinny. Harry and Luna both had tragic childhoods but while Harry had to cope with it by trying in vain to be normal, Luna coped by embracing her weirdness to the fullest and it led to an interesting chemistry between the two.
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I saw Harry and Luna more as really good friends tbh, and I really appreciated that dynamic of it not being sexual
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HermioneXLuna
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MrGreenonion posted...

HermioneXLuna

More interesting dynamic than Harry/Ginny.
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Ron/Hermione is better in the books, but Harry/Hermione is better in the movies.

Not sure who Harry should have ended up with in the books, but I guess Ginny's as good as anyone. I did like Cho a decent amount also.
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HarryxLuna man.
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Should've been HarryxHermione with Ron killed off, the way Rowling intended.
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Harry x Ginny is terrible

Harry x Luna should have been the canon

I like Harry/Ginny a lot, but I was hoping for Harry/Luna. I felt like she understood him better than everyone else and they would have been a good match.
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HarryxDumbeldore like Rowlings intended.
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Harry/Ginny is a pretty weakly written relationship, but it's fine because the story isn't really about their relationship.

Harry/Hermione would have been a terrible decision. Harry is Hermione's best friend, and I think their friendship just works so well. Hermione's loyalty is fantastic (I actually feel Hermione best represents all four houses of Hogwarts. The Sorting hat should have stuck on her for a long time tbh)

I'd have been fine with Harry/Luna, but honestly I don't care too much about who he ended up with (as long as it wasn't Hermione). Ginny wasn't Hermione, so I'm fine with that.
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"who the fuck is ginny"
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Ashethan posted...

Harry is Hermione's best friend,

Don't you want to marry your best friend, though? Food for thought.
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BlueCrystalTear posted...

Ashethan posted...

Harry is Hermione's best friend,

Don't you want to marry your best friend, though? Food for thought.

Ron is Harrys best friend, so he married Female Ron. QED
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