Don't apologize! I LOVE this kind of thing, especially since I mostly agree with what you say.
I had forgotten about that part in the epilogue (I remember very little from it, actually) and GRRR about the whole thing. Like, I think that Ron and Hermione were interested in each other, but it's not a relationship that I see as a lasting one. Especially since compromise is SUCH A BIG PART OF A RELATIONSHIP. And Ron and Hermione never compromised, never apologized, never learned. They just stopped talking to each other, sometimes months at a time, until Harry or circumstances forced them to "make up" in a sense, and I put that in quotation marks because it wasn't actually acknowledged, more of a OK we're going to forget about it. And then a bit later, they're going at it again! It was a vicious cycle, and if the only way they can prevent the constant fighting is for Ron to actually LIE to Hermione, especially about things that she would would not be OK with (like using magic to force the muggle to give him his driver's license), then that's not an honest or healthy or good relationship.
Oh OotP. Harry and Hermione were so hot and amazing in that book. That and PoA are the real shippy ones!
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I had forgotten about that part in the epilogue (I remember very little from it, actually) and GRRR about the whole thing. Like, I think that Ron and Hermione were interested in each other, but it's not a relationship that I see as a lasting one. Especially since compromise is SUCH A BIG PART OF A RELATIONSHIP. And Ron and Hermione never compromised, never apologized, never learned. They just stopped talking to each other, sometimes months at a time, until Harry or circumstances forced them to "make up" in a sense, and I put that in quotation marks because it wasn't actually acknowledged, more of a OK we're going to forget about it. And then a bit later, they're going at it again! It was a vicious cycle, and if the only way they can prevent the constant fighting is for Ron to actually LIE to Hermione, especially about things that she would would not be OK with (like using magic to force the muggle to give him his driver's license), then that's not an honest or healthy or good relationship.
Oh OotP. Harry and Hermione were so hot and amazing in that book. That and PoA are the real shippy ones!