About the marrying your high school sweetheart from Hogwarts
The only thing acceptable is the simple reality that Hogwarts is the only wizarding school in the UK, so if you end up with someone who is a wizard who has been raised in the UK, it’s almost certain they went to Hogwarts. No problem here
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Well, “seeming” to, at least. According to HBP, she never really got over Harry and dated other boys in order to catch his attention and make him jealous.
/Don’t need no stinkin’ Snape-loved-Lily unsavory Bertie Botts’ every flavor bean shoved down our throat./
I’m still disappointed that that was the motivation that JKR gave Snape. There were so many fanfics exploring different reasons for why Snape left the Death Eaters, and JKR settled for an unrequited crush on a girl who treated him like dirt. And it’s not even like it was a secondary reason - no, that was the only reason that Snape left. She didn’t give him any others.
/Notice how Lily never pronounced Snape’s name in that scene/
Which is why the revelation that they were supposedly ‘best friends’ in DH came totally out of left field for me.
I like your idea about Draco and Hermione being forced to work together (which has been the premise of many a Draco/Hermione fanfic :P). At the very least, it would’ve forced Hermione to branch out beyond the Trio and work with someone else.
/Ron recovers and convinces himself that it’s Hermione who tried to poison him for all the high school reasons/
I’m not loving this, though, because they’re supposed to be best friends. That’s a problem that the books have always had: Harry and Hermione and Ron are supposed to be best friends and this tightly-bound team, but they frequently pick fights with each other and stomp off from each other. If Ron did something like this in HBP, then he would’ve shown that he learned nothing from the previous books. That was one of the issues that people had with DH: they thought that Ron would’ve gotten past the whole “I’m mad at you, so I’ll stomp off and leave” attitude that he had in POA and GOF.
/She could have written Ron/Hermione and Ginny/Harry better, and I could have gone along with it./
I wonder if being Designated Couples hurt them in the long run, because perhaps knowing that Ron/Hermione was the end goal was what kept JKR from developing their romance. The most we saw of Ron and Hermione was bickering and fighting. We didn’t see scenes where they bonded over Muggle culture or where Ron encouraged Hermione to relax and laugh at herself or where Hermione supported Ron in his desire to not be overshadowed by his brothers and he took her advice and bettered himself. At least Harry and Ginny have Quidditch and hexing people in common.
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Yeah DH completely turned everything upside down with Snape and deconstructed what had become a significant part of the Marauders history, who, up to DH made some sense. What I had deducted was that the werewolf prank had taken place after the pants episode. That in exchange for not being expelled from Hogwarts for playing a prank that could have killed a student, James is offered to become Head Boy if he can keep his friends especially Sirius in check for the next year, and Sirius isn’t expelled, although he’s ‘fired’ from his parents’ house that very summer (which I thought had been because the school had written to the Blacks about the prank), and Snape is offered protection against the Death Eaters from Dumbledore, kinda the same way Dumbledore offered protection to Draco in HBP in the deleted text where he tells him “they can’t kill you if you’re already dead” or something similar. Which would have provided a proper explanation to the werewolf prank and a reason why Snape might have joined the DE aside from the “dark arts are badass” or “snape-loved-lily”, he joined them partly to infiltrate them and he was always a white hat. I also like the theory I've read about that he would have infiltrated them to get revenge over them murdering his mother for marrying a muggle. But him joining because he was dumped by Lily is probably one of the weakest reason, and joining for the dark arts doesn't even make sense as the dark arts aren't even illegal - Hogwarts might not teach them but if they'd be illegal a store like Borgin & Burke would have been shut down by the Mnistry ages ago.
But in DH it now appears that it was the reverse order, which doesn't make sense, if it really was the werewolf prank first, then the pants episode, then the Marauders are really a bunch of irredeemable jerks who deserve everything that happened to them, and that Hogwarts is an epic fail for competent discipline. I can’t believe Minerva or who ever was in charge of Gryffindor would have let James become Head Boy after that, or Sirius roam free and unexpelled.
/If Ron did something like this in HBP, then he would’ve shown that he learned nothing from the previous books./
If JKR has strengthened the romance by showing them having interest in common like Muggle culture or something else you said, it would have definitely reinforced the friendship of that link in the trio as well. It would have been a kill two birds with one stone : more character and relationship development would diminish the volatile beginning of the Ron/Hermione ship and make them evolve with the desired goal of them ending up together.
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