I'm not even a really big R/Hr shipper, I don't read that many stories with them at the center, particularly porn, as Hermione het is a bit disturbing sometimes. It's just I see this happen so much with them as side pairings in Harry/Draco, Harry/Snape, etc etc.
It's odd, considering the fact that the WW seems to be so gender blind that they reduce Hermione to breeding stock.
It's also sad, because the writer is often placing herself in Hermione's position when writing the stories, and the fact that so many see themselves as only good for making children is horrifying! It's just not true!
Oh Harry would be dysfunctional enough to do that. But I always tend to follow the slash side of Harry, and thankfully it's much harder to have a baby without a female, even with MPreg, so generally if he has kids they're not popping out when he's seventeen!
I don't see having a husband raise the kids (if they choose to go that route) would be the wife *abandoning* them, anymore than the husband would be abandoning them if the wife raised them. I know a number of families who have chosen to go with a stay-at-home father.
Whether Hermione and Ron (or whoever they marry, if anyone) would do that is something else. Hermione is not ambitious, but she is dedicated *and* she's the daughter of a professional couple. Plus I have a feeling she'd be bored to death at home.
Yes, as someone who plans to have a professional career, I don't really see her sticking at home. I'd be bored, so would she.
The thing I more have an issue with (with both working mothers and fathers) is the senario where she's working ungodly hours at the Ministry and really has nothing to do with her children at all, basically she's the absent mother -- something I don't really see her doing. She'd choose not to have children at all if she was more interested in that IMHO.
Well, leaving aside my own contention that Hermione Granger ought to be forbidden to marry anyone until she turns 30, and has come a bit closer to growing into who she *is* rather than letting herself be persuaded into trying to be whatever the zeitgeist of the ww at the moment tries to tell her that she "ought" to be, it often is the kids who grow up in a small family who *want* the large family "experience".
But I'm not convinced that Hermione Granger is one of these. And Ron, who got one of the very worst sorts of large family experiences, knows better.
Mind you, I don't much care for the idea of the two of them getting together, permanently, in any case. The most they seem to have in common at present are Harry, whose issues are going to be settled in a couple of years one way or another, and Hogwarts. And they aren't going to be at school forever, either.
She should be forbidden to marry before thirty, as should the rest of them.
I don't see Hermione as a very maternal person in the first place -- she's not the type of person who wanted to grow up and have a huge family and that's it.
I'm not really all that big of a Ron/Hermione shipper myself except the fact that it might play along those lines in canon. This could fit any number of Hermione het pairings, but the most typical are with Snape and Ron. Oddly enough I haven't seen a lot of Baby Machine Hermione/Harry senarios.
Isn't saying she shouldn't marry before 30 telling her what ought to be in *our* society? She may be Muggleborn but I still wouldn't presume.
Aside from that, Hermione having 10 children, and naming them things such as Sirius and Minerva (when Snape is the father, really???)is ridiculous. Can anyone see Snape wanting 10 children? Likewise R/Hr. Ron may want a few kids but a "quidditch team"?
Well, Hermione is more suggestable than she comes across when the comparison is Lavendar and Parvati, but we've seen her pull a number of socially-approved "girly" stunts (on the order of cooing at Crookshanks, or that disclaimer of "Oh I'm not great, I'm just clever.") than one remembers. She seems to be getting more headstrong lately, but she *is* vulnerable to others' expectations and an early marriage would add additional pressure to such expectations.
Of course, as a witch, she has more time than a Muggle would, and if she ends up taking a less-than-optimum turn and losing a few years on a track she later abandons there may be no lasting harm done.
But it is pretty clear that she is one of those people who is going to end up being very much *herself* eventually anyway. So she might as well do it in the first place.
Waiting until 30 would also make it clear to any prospective partner just exactly what he is letting himself in for.
I wonder if it's because she's bossy, and has been compared to Molly on more than one occasion by more than one canon character. Being like Molly must mean that she wants ten million children.
Notice how Molly doesn't have any kids after Ginny? They might be able to control births, but they probably can't control gender. I bet that if Ginny had been the second child, they would have stopped there, but I can't say that for sure. Molly loves her kids. 'Nuff said on that.
Anyway, who knows why they think Hermione wants a bunch of kids? She doesn't really seem to like them that much. I mean, yeah, in a way, but not that much.
I do, too, but that doesn't stop a fanfic writer from saying, "Lupin compared Hermione to Molly, so that means that she's going to have TEN children!" I don't get it...
Look at canon, how big are the pureblood families (apart from the Weasley's)? Most of them seem to be single child. Where do these authors get the 10 kids thing from??
Me, I was so annoyed by the R/Hr and H/Hr shipper wars, I've decided to make Hermione perpetually single and childfree. She's only narrowly escaped being a lesbian. ;)
(Well, I might sort her out with a lover or two. Or possibly Remus Lupin. That's a pairing I could like.)
But mother of more than two? Never. Not Hermione. Far too intelligent. And at school, or indeed at any other time not of her choosing? Do me a favour.
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It's odd, considering the fact that the WW seems to be so gender blind that they reduce Hermione to breeding stock.
It's also sad, because the writer is often placing herself in Hermione's position when writing the stories, and the fact that so many see themselves as only good for making children is horrifying! It's just not true!
Oh Harry would be dysfunctional enough to do that. But I always tend to follow the slash side of Harry, and thankfully it's much harder to have a baby without a female, even with MPreg, so generally if he has kids they're not popping out when he's seventeen!
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Whether Hermione and Ron (or whoever they marry, if anyone) would do that is something else. Hermione is not ambitious, but she is dedicated *and* she's the daughter of a professional couple. Plus I have a feeling she'd be bored to death at home.
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The thing I more have an issue with (with both working mothers and fathers) is the senario where she's working ungodly hours at the Ministry and really has nothing to do with her children at all, basically she's the absent mother -- something I don't really see her doing. She'd choose not to have children at all if she was more interested in that IMHO.
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But I'm not convinced that Hermione Granger is one of these. And Ron, who got one of the very worst sorts of large family experiences, knows better.
Mind you, I don't much care for the idea of the two of them getting together, permanently, in any case. The most they seem to have in common at present are Harry, whose issues are going to be settled in a couple of years one way or another, and Hogwarts. And they aren't going to be at school forever, either.
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I don't see Hermione as a very maternal person in the first place -- she's not the type of person who wanted to grow up and have a huge family and that's it.
I'm not really all that big of a Ron/Hermione shipper myself except the fact that it might play along those lines in canon. This could fit any number of Hermione het pairings, but the most typical are with Snape and Ron. Oddly enough I haven't seen a lot of Baby Machine Hermione/Harry senarios.
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Aside from that, Hermione having 10 children, and naming them things such as Sirius and Minerva (when Snape is the father, really???)is ridiculous. Can anyone see Snape wanting 10 children? Likewise R/Hr. Ron may want a few kids but a "quidditch team"?
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Of course, as a witch, she has more time than a Muggle would, and if she ends up taking a less-than-optimum turn and losing a few years on a track she later abandons there may be no lasting harm done.
But it is pretty clear that she is one of those people who is going to end up being very much *herself* eventually anyway. So she might as well do it in the first place.
Waiting until 30 would also make it clear to any prospective partner just exactly what he is letting himself in for.
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Notice how Molly doesn't have any kids after Ginny? They might be able to control births, but they probably can't control gender. I bet that if Ginny had been the second child, they would have stopped there, but I can't say that for sure. Molly loves her kids. 'Nuff said on that.
Anyway, who knows why they think Hermione wants a bunch of kids? She doesn't really seem to like them that much. I mean, yeah, in a way, but not that much.
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I can see Hermione having one to two kids tops. Unless she MUST have a girl and they go through the Weasley senario again.
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Ah well.
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Me, I was so annoyed by the R/Hr and H/Hr shipper wars, I've decided to make Hermione perpetually single and childfree. She's only narrowly escaped being a lesbian. ;)
(Well, I might sort her out with a lover or two. Or possibly Remus Lupin. That's a pairing I could like.)
But mother of more than two? Never. Not Hermione. Far too intelligent. And at school, or indeed at any other time not of her choosing? Do me a favour.
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