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[silviakundera]

I think the main problem with this Ron/Harry fic that I've been stalled on and picking at for months is that I'm trying to force it somewhere it can't go.

I keep trying to twist it around to being Ron/Harry, when in my personal read of the series, this pairing has much more standing in the way of it than Harry/Draco. And I haven't been recifying

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[penelope_z]

Ah, and I was just complaining on the lack of H/R in HP.
I love that pairing. Happy endings.. hmm... I consider it has more potential to be really tragic actually, more than H/D. I can't help finding H/D slightly cartoonish at times, whereas if in H/R things go pear-shaped the consequences are much more immediate.

[silviakundera]

I have weird, complex issues with the pairing. Or maybe, just issues with how I often see it written. I usually can't buy them for the "best friends who wake up and smell the coffee" slash genre. [though, hell, I'll probably end up writing that someday for them and then hating myself.]

It's a really interesting pairing, as when I read the source text I see Ron directing love/hate envy/resentment at Harry in a mash of convoluted emotions.

I didn't really touch on them much in the one Ron/Harry I've put out -- it wasn't actually about the pairing -- but I intend to hopefully explore them in a few more fics eventually...

[penelope_z]

Yes, most of the times it's presented in the 'friends experimenting after drikning too much pumpkin juice' style. Well to me it's basically Ron wanting Harry, wanting to protect and be good enough and equal to Harry, wanting to kill Harry and take his place,and Harry probably responding out of a misplaced desire for a family and a brother.

[silviakundera]

Well to me it's basically Ron wanting Harry, wanting to protect and be good enough and equal to Harry, wanting to kill Harry and take his place,and Harry probably responding out of a misplaced desire for a family and a brother.

Pretty much exactly how I see it as well. Except I never would have summed it up so concisely. *is impressed*

(And then there are also all these possible issues of Harry being Ron's childhood mythic hero, and on raised up on high to a level he can't possibly reach in his real, human form, and Ron will always hate him a little for that.)

[meacoustic]

Let go, Sil! (I know your Ron-issues, and I don't think any Harry/Ron you tried to write could have a happy ending because of those.) There's enough Happy Ending fic in the world anyway, bring on the angst!

"angst", btw, is my keyword for this icon...

[silviakundera]

whoooooo, angst! heh. Dude, that's all I'm about lately. What's up with me?

[silviakundera]

I used to be never ever have this issue. I don't know why the Harry Potter fandom fucked me up like this. *smacks self in the head*

I never used to worry if the characters would "be together in the end" or not. I'd just... say what I had to say about the characters. Let the situation play out as it wanted to play out.

And sometimes that WOULD end up happy and warm and fuzzy. And sometimes it wouldn't.

The Ginny/Hermione, yeah. I realized about half-way through that, hello, she wasn't going to get the girl. Obviously. And so I was stalled for so long, trying to figure out how to FIX that.

And then suddenly I was like, "wtf am I doing? Why do I think there's something to fix?"

Same thing with this stupid Ron/Harry. I would be making a shallow mockery of the rest of the fic if I just thrust them together because I'd like them to be together. That doesn't make sense in the universe I've created.

[isiscolo]

Sometimes I need to let it go, and I used to be able to do that. It was about telling a story, not getting two characters together.

And that's what makes the difference, often, between a story and some writing that doesn't go anywhere. Too many writers focus on what they want out of the characters, not on what the characters want out of the plot.

The First Piece Of Silver was originally going to be Snape/Black. But it didn't gel until I realized it was actually Pettigrew/Rosier.