Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Entertainment Weekly has released a list of Pop Culture’s Best Couples, a ranking of 26 of our favorite true (fictional) lovers. The fictional pairing of characters Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger from the Harry Potter series are included on the list. Along side such iconic fictional couples as Superman and Lois Lane, from the Superman comics; Ricky and Lucy Ricardo, from the classic TV show ‘I Love Lucy;’ and Ross and Rachel, from the TV sitcom ‘Friends;’ Ron and Hermione come in at number 8 with the following description:
RON WEASLEY AND HERMIONE GRANGER
The Harry Potter cycle
Jealousy, betrayal…love potions: That’s teen wizard romance for ya. Harry Potter’s best friends didn’t officially become a couple until Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows but their love/hate relationship turned soap opera in Goblet of Fire. At times they’ve been controversial (Ron/Hermione fans still have scars from their online wars with the Harry/Hermione faithful), but that’s as risqué as this teen duo gets.
Congratulations to our favorite Won-Won and Hermione on this day of love. :)
Ron and Hermione completely deserve this fun little honor. Whine all you want. It’s not going to change the fact they’re canon and lots of us are tickled pink about it.
“This list doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. How can you have such Iconic characters as Romeo and Juliet, Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett, etc., on the same list as the couple from Battlestar Gallatica. I know it’s a popular show, but come on!”
Yeah I know it is pretty weird….or like how they have Jim/Pam from the Office, but not Booth/Brennan from Bones….it’s a pretty random list in general…(Like Titanic wasn’t mentioned either!)
Or the fact that they have R/Hr period on the list—come on! rolleyes Just because HP is popular doesn’t mean that the most prominent couple in the books (no matter how awful they were) should qualify!
Or how about that nonsense about “still bearing scars from online wars with the Harry/Hermione faithful”—give me a break! As if Herons were the picked on minority rather than the other way around….rolleyes What a load of rubbish, as Ron himself would say!
^ Oh get over it will you? People at EW obviously liked R/Hr. Why is that so hard for you to comprehend? So what that your pairing wasn’t in the books? Why can’t you just move on? Go read fan fiction.
“Ok H/G aren’t there > They re not the main couple > I like them but R/Hr is the main romance of this fantasy book …”
Exactly. :) R/Hr have the romance of the books. They had the obvious one that flowed through the whole series and finished off with a swept-off-her-feet kiss!
I still can’t believe there’s h/hr shippers. And there are heaps of draco/hermione shippers!!! Gosh. some of my friends that don’t read the books thought that harry wiill end up marrying hermione…i mean y do they all think it’s harry and hermione…and i tell them hermione married ron and harry married ginny…then they say harry should have married hermione coz she’s better then ginny. I mean ron deserves hermione not harry.
RON AND HERMIONE FOREVER!!!!!
I (personally) was VERRY happy when in book 7,I finnaly read what I was waiting for since I realised that there were Ron and Hermione being characters.And it’s verry good to see (for real) what they meen to each other,at first place.
Still,
Don’t you think it,s just a bit stupid to make comparasion between SNAPE and Hermione?! Or evan HARRY?!
Gosh..
I mean,wasn’t it obvious that Rod and Hermione will end up togather since the moment she told him that he has a dirt on his nose???
Come on people…
Isn’t J K Rowling sopose to be worring about the characters SHE is making,and you just have to be there to support her -NOT to tell her what to do????
Give her a rest.
She has all ready done a LOT with just whriting the book and giving us the opportunity of reading it!
Ask yourself :
Just how many books as good as HARRY POTTER have you ever read???
I bet not many!!!
I like it how the little blurb mentioned the Shipping Wars. Those were hard times. I think my blood pressure rose a bit during those times. The Ron/Hermione kiss in Deathly Hallows helped it go significantly down thankfully.
"You'll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don't want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there."
For anyone who doubts Ron’s love for and devotion to Hermione, here’s three words:
“Take me instead.”
That’s not lust, it’s love.