Matchmaker 1: Harry Potter!

[Marchwarden]

Time to play matchmaker!

Who should eventually end up :hug: ing and :kiss: ing our favorite bespectacled boy wizard?

Should he patch things up with Cho?

Will he echo Ginny's former crush on him?

Will he re-encounter Gabrielle when she's fully blossomed?

Will Hermione decide that Weasley's not her King?

Let the poll commence...

[Kristin]

I'm now very pro Harry and Ginny. :)

Before, as someone else pointed out, Ginny was very much Ron's younger sister who has a childish crush on Harry. At that point, she didn't deserve him. And Harry was unlikely to look at her as anything other than Ron's little sister.

Gradually, Ginny has been coming into her own, and with OotP, I'd say she has arrived! She's confident and talented, funny, smart and nice. She does deserve Harry now. What's more, Harry and Ginny seem to be developing a friendship on their own terms (Ginny is friend material not just a friend's sibling), which lays the foundation for a very good relationship! :)

[Pippin]

I´m very firmly with Kristin here. :)


And I really think Harry and Ginny will be lovely together. Ginny ROCKS in OotP, I´d say "Harry deserves her" rather than "Ginny deserves him"!


I don´t know about Ginny´s eye colour but the two would look a lot like James and Lily!!! :eek:

[Fleurdelacour]

*taps foot impatiantly on floor* Harry and Hermione own up, who voted Hermione?!

I have to say Ginny, Ron approves, he knows Harry isn't a git, and just before Ginny said she was dating Dean Thomas, Ron said to Ginny to choose someone better next time, and gave Harry a rather odd glance :)

Although, I don't think Harry's gonna come out alive by the end of book seven, but I'd like to see him be happy for once, a few seconds with Cho wont satiate the poor lad, he's tasted some, he'll want somemore, once he's calmed down... If he calms down... His tantrums were slightly annoying...

[Monkfish]

Harry 4 Hermy 4 EVA!

Mwahahahaha!:D

[lizz]

I´m all for Harry and Ginny. I liked her but now I love her.

Looking for paralels she remionds me of Lily telling James of.
And they do get on fine, JKR often mentions how the caught their eyes and laughed.

[StarGazr]

Originally posted by Monkfish
Harry 4 Hermy 4 EVA!

*Runs in and hooks arms with Monk* Yeah! I voted for it!!! :p Hey! I even wrote a FANFIC about them... so... :p :p :p

[Mirdan]

yeah, Harry and Ginny!

and notice that since we're seeing Hogwarts through Harry's eyes, we also get the sense that Harry's becoming more aware of Ginny's presence? i'm beginning to see something bigger here...;)

[jesuisalleeaujardin]

i go for gabbie... gabrielle... all the way :D

though ginny wouldn't hurt too... might be good, in fact!

no no no, not cho... but there might be some real action on the quiddith pitch coz of that :p . ...

jardin

[Moxie]

None of the above, because he's gay ;)

Yeah, I know, likely commerical suicide if JKR overtly made Harry gay... but Ron was the one he'd miss most at the time of the Second Task...

[ChianaWeasley]

Ginny!

Dont you see? He's going to end up with Ginny my darlings!

Thats how it will be, just like everything is meant to be!
like macaroni and Cheese, the Beatles, the thirteen uses for dragon's blood!

Or surely terra firma will fly of into the uncharted territories!

Harry and ginny are destined to be with one another

Chiana stops in mid hearty speech, trying to catch her breath.She realizes she's gone a tad over, she sheepishly grins and steps off her soap box

yup, thats all i have to say, Harry and Ginny
:)

[Marchwarden]

Originally posted by jesuisalleeaujardin

no no no, not cho...



:eek: That so sounds like a rally chant!

Given the overwhelmingly prevalent attitude on these boards, I wouldn't be surprised to see that showing up in peoples' sigs...

[ChianaWeasley]

mihosohoiw misokiejafim cho chang!

translation

no cho chang


:p

Im sorry but Cho chang the water demon makes my ass twitch

:D

can I say ass?
:o

[Kristin]

I like how Harry is able to get over Cho, and how it kind of sets us up not to expect that romance is going to be on his mind. He's realized that the war and the death are what's really relevant to his life. Dating isn't relevant. ... On the other hand, LOVE (whether it be for friends, for the parent-figures or romantic love) is VERY relevant.

But I can't wait to see what's next for Ginny, with or without Harry.


BTW -- If you aren't sure whether you can say a word, just type it in. If it's a censored word, it will show up as !!!! (in which case, you're still in OK territory). Just don't try to work around the autocensor. It looks like "ass" is fine.

[ChianaWeasley]

hooray! I can say it!!!!

ehm*

LOL

I would really like to see what comes from Ginny in the near future, and Harry as well.

And i think with all thats going on in Harry's life at the moment, he needs love, whether its parental,freind, or other kinds of love. He needs it. And I think he will have a girl friend or a loveinterest, he's still a teenager. He'll always have that on his mind, we always have it on our minds.

Good ole' Ron, I was breezing through OoTP to find the scene where Fred and George make their leave so gracefully, hem* anyhow, I caught the word 'Vicky' with the corner of my eye.

:LOL:

Yes, good ole' Ron.
'Yes, do tell us about Vicky Hermione!'

[Marchwarden]

So far, the front runner is no surprise. Ginny is enormously popular on these boards. That said, now that the ardent patriots have voted, let's see what heretofore silent support rolls in...

Cho got a vote! That must be from the one non-Cho-hater on the boards;) .

After so much Ginny-majority. Hermione-minority debate, it's refreshing to see Luna Lovegood shaping up as a third-party candidate. Remember that JKR never names in vain...

[Helenia]

Originally posted by Kristin
I like how Harry is able to get over Cho, and how it kind of sets us up not to expect that romance is going to be on his mind. He's realized that the war and the death are what's really relevant to his life. Dating isn't relevant. ... On the other hand, LOVE (whether it be for friends, for the parent-figures or romantic love) is VERY relevant.


Hurray! I'm not the only person who thinks this! I think that in most of the fanfics I've read, the actual point of the HP books (i.e. the good vs. evil struggle, the magical world, Harry's growing up in an increasingly difficult situation) have been overrun by soppy romantic stuff. With Harry as angry as he is, I can hardly imagine him being perfect boyfriend material! I don't particularly think he'll go with anyone. (I mean, how hard is it going to be for her to write a kids' book with a late-teens relationship going on in it?!? And I know it's not just for children, but she still has to keep it suitable for them!) But if he does, it'll be Ginny.

[ChianaWeasley]

You mean theres someone who doesn't hate CHO???

well, that cant be right....

;)

Well personally, I think she's a water demon(hence all the crying).

[Marchwarden]

Originally posted by ChianaWeasley
You mean theres someone who doesn't hate CHO???

well, that cant be right....

;)

Well personally, I think she's a water demon(hence all the crying).

In her (limited) defense, she's a sixteen-year-old girl who's had to experience a) her boyfriend's murder at the hands of the Living Nightmare of the Wizarding World, and b) the subsequent cover-up (difficult to achieve closure when nobody will talk about what happened).

Several members have accused her of 'using' Harry; I admit that their was more than personal affection contributing to her side of the abortive relationship, but I don't think it was deliberate or habitual. She's lonely and scared and confused, and I'm glad that they both seemed to have moved on without becoming grudge-burdened.

[ChianaWeasley]

Chiana crosses her arms over her chest stubbornly

I still dont like her.

Yes, she went through alot after losing Cedric. But so did Harry after Voldemort returned to the waizarding world, I mean he brought Cedric's body back. He watched Cedric die, he went through more then she did.

Harry then has feelings for her, she "likes" him. For sure or not, we'll never know. But then they go out on a date, and she has the nerve to bring up if Cedric mentioned her before he died. Ok theres ALOT wrong with that.

a). thats not something you bring up on a date. Maybe when their together somewhere discussing what happened but not out of the blue
b). thats not fair to ask of harry
c). grr...I just dont like her

sorry to be so negative towards her, but she drove me nutters
:eek:

But when Ron and Hermione were hinted upon, made me feel all tingly inside.:o Makes things better ;)

[Marchwarden]

Originally posted by ChianaWeasley
Chiana crosses her arms over her chest stubbornly

I still dont like her.

Yes, she went through alot after losing Cedric. But so did Harry after Voldemort returned to the waizarding world, I mean he brought Cedric's body back. He watched Cedric die, he went through more then she did.

That said, Harry wasn't in love with Cedric.

Also, as horrible as it is to witness an act so dreadful, to know that it happened but remain unable to discover the details is maddening in a different way.

Harry then has feelings for her, she "likes" him. For sure or not, we'll never know. But then they go out on a date, and she has the nerve to bring up if Cedric mentioned her before he died. Ok theres ALOT wrong with that.

a). thats not something you bring up on a date. Maybe when their together somewhere discussing what happened but not out of the blue
b). thats not fair to ask of harry
c). grr...I just dont like her

sorry to be so negative towards her, but she drove me nutters
:eek:

But when Ron and Hermione were hinted upon, made me feel all tingly inside.:o Makes things better ;)

I agree that it was not the time or the place. I don't think she planned it that way; I suspect that it sort of came boiling out. She's probably been wondering about it for nearly a year. And yes, it would have been better to talk these things over with Harry back at school, somewhere reasonably private, and not in a coffeehouse on Valentine's Day. Harry and Cho both handle their roles awkwardly, due no doubt to inexperience.

Mind you; I'm no fan of Cho Chang, and while her involvement with Harry provides him with a valid learning experience, I don't think they'd be suitable as anything but friendly acquaintances in the long term. I'm merely trying to make allowances for what I see as the errors of youth and grief; a few members around here seem to really have it in for her, and I just can't place her in the same category as, say Pansy Parkinson. Cho could definitely benefit more from counseling than from a kick in the butt.

[Monkfish]

For all the people saying Harry & Hermy would be a bit obvious....wouldn`t Harry & Ginny be even MORE obvious given the whole coming down to breakfast scene in COS et al?

Hermy --> :D
Harry --> :swoon:
Ron --> :mad:
Ginny --> :(
Luna --> :p
Lupin & Snape --> :trout:
Fred & George --> :cool: :cool:

[qleap]

I'm a great Ron/Hermione fan so it must be Ginny :D

Also, until ootP I wasn't a Ginny fan, at least as a match for Harry: she wasn't much... interesting, and a crush is not what I want from a character in such an important role.
But I LOVED the way Ginny showed us to have grown up... the fact she's been interested in other people too. That'd move the whole Harry/Ginny relationship from a crush to something deeper.

I think Luna will show up somewhere in the romance side... but it's funny, I thought she liked Ron :eek: she's making friend with Harry, but remember the laughing scene on the train and the whole lion scene at breakfast before the match and calling him "Ronald" ;)
Seriously, for a second I could SEE Hermione raising her eyebrow :D

[Lord Schaudt]

I voted for Luna just becuase, i really want to see Malfoy and Harry(ok does anyone else remeber where this went?)...




I believe that Ginny and harry should get together, the only question is, Is Harry good enough for Ginny?

[ChianaWeasley]

You're exactly right Schaudt, Ginny is a very good person, who Harry ignored for the most part.
but I do think Harry will see her differently, now that Cho is out of his line of view.
I also think now that she doesn't want him, he's going to want her. Very French ;)

[Athelas]

Originally posted by Moxie
None of the above, because he's gay ;)

Yeah, I know, likely commerical suicide if JKR overtly made Harry gay... but Ron was the one he'd miss most at the time of the Second Task...

I never thought of this (I don't read any fanfic, much less slash), but when someone pointed out JKR was sending him to Stonewall, I think it may be possible!

[Bellatrix_Lestrange]

I don't think Harry should end up with anyone; He's going to be the next Dumbledore in the fullness of time.I think that he'll maintain a lifelong friendship with Hermione and Ron, and have a sort of ambiguous friendship with Luna. Luna is so matter-of-fact that, after Cho's histrionics, a forthright girl might be good company for Harry. Ultimately, though, he'll be too constrained by destiny to pursue a serious relationship.

If he even lives.

[ChianaWeasley]

He will live
AND
he will find someone
BECAUSE
he's harry and he just will
:D

[Fleurdelacour]

I don't want Harry to die... :( Did I just type that?...

I think he ought to be happy, well and truly happy. What ever floats his boat ;) Poor lad, he really deserves happiness...

[Bellatrix_Lestrange]

Originally posted by ChianaWeasley
He will live
AND
he will find someone
BECAUSE
he's harry and he just will
:D

Once already, there was an instant where Voldemort might have been destroyed at the cost of Harry's life. That might occur in Book 7. It's not as if Harry will be able to match Voldemort in a straight contest of skill within two years.

And wouldn't it be terribly ironic if The Boy Who Lived grew up to become The Hero Who Died?

qleap:
I think Luna will show up somewhere in the romance side... but it's funny, I thought she liked Ron she's making friend with Harry, but remember the laughing scene on the train and the whole lion scene at breakfast before the match and calling him "Ronald"
Seriously, for a second I could SEE Hermione raising her eyebrow
Interestingly, Luna and Hermione are already natural foils. Hermione is a focused, diligent, methodical linear thinker. Luna stares into space, babbles about Snorkacks, then pops up with the Cosmic Answer as if it were patently obvious. It's like watching Stephen Hawking and Lao Tse in the same room together. Luna drives Hermione nuts.

Hermione bickers with Ron and calls him immature. Everyone (except the two themselves) can see the unrecognized affection there.

Luna applauds Ron and calls him Ronald, which is a more dignified and mature form of address.

A Luna-Ron-Hermione triangle would be hilarious, especially if Hermione won't admit her feelings outright and Ron is just clueless.

[ChianaWeasley]

I love Luna to death but i can't see her and ron getting together. she isn't...well she just isn't Hermione. I know that sounds selfish or something, but it's Ron and Hermione. i just don't see Luna and ron together. BUT I can see Luna trying to battle Hermione for Ron, but we know who would win that one.

And on another note to that situation...maybe Ron will take notice to Luna's behavior. And this will make Hermione extremely jealous, and who knows what could come from that...Well I can see some huffing and grumbling...Hermione turning red and mumbling something about what nonsense mutters on about. No reason in it! No reason to it all ! Simply illogical!
Then, oh just you wait 'Enry Iggins'
:D She'll try to get ron's attention and it will be so adorable!

:o
:swoon:

[Bellatrix_Lestrange]

Originally posted by ChianaWeasley
I love Luna to death but i can't see her and ron getting together. she isn't...well she just isn't Hermione. I know that sounds selfish or something, but it's Ron and Hermione. i just don't see Luna and ron together. BUT I can see Luna trying to battle Hermione for Ron, but we know who would win that one.

And on another note to that situation...maybe Ron will take notice to Luna's behavior. And this will make Hermione extremely jealous, and who knows what could come from that...Well I can see some huffing and grumbling...Hermione turning red and mumbling something about what nonsense mutters on about. No reason in it! No reason to it all ! Simply illogical!
Then, oh just you wait 'Enry Iggins'
:D She'll try to get ron's attention and it will be so adorable!

:o
:swoon:
Precisely right. Luna won't end up with Ron, but could serve as a catalyst. Hermione is too busy being exasperated with Ron to actually figure how she really feels about him, but if Luna starts in on him, Hermione will have to ask herself: "Why does this bother me so much?". And the answer will be: "It's because you wish it were you". And being a Gryffindor, she'll do the brave thing.

[ChianaWeasley]

Spot on!
good ole hermione and ron, being their usual stubborn selves!

It's alot like that odd kind of rivalry where you don't realize you want something till someone else has it first. Or one of those right infront of you situations...

ron will end up with Hermione, and Luna...well Luna might just end up with Neville :D

[Bellatrix_Lestrange]

Originally posted by ChianaWeasley
Spot on!
good ole hermione and ron, being their usual stubborn selves!

It's alot like that odd kind of rivalry where you don't realize you want something till someone else has it first. Or one of those right infront of you situations...

ron will end up with Hermione, and Luna...well Luna might just end up with Neville :D

No. Upon seeing that R&H have figured it out, Luna meanders out of the picture, leaving us all to wonder if this was really her goal after all.

She doesn't end up with Neville; he's too steadfast in his affections. When he meets his fate like a true Gryffindor, his last words will be: "Tell Ginny that...I..."

[ChianaWeasley]

Oh! :eek:
Dont even say that!!!!!
Neville is NOT going to die!
But that is sooo adorable, but I'll think of it that he's in the hospital wing, talking to who he thinks is hermione (head truama you understand) and he confesses his feelings after saving her life from voldemort. And it turns out to be ginny :o

[Bellatrix_Lestrange]

Originally posted by ChianaWeasley
Oh! :eek:
Dont even say that!!!!!
Neville is NOT going to die!
But that is sooo adorable, but I'll think of it that he's in the hospital wing, talking to who he thinks is hermione (head truama you understand) and he confesses his feelings after saving her life from voldemort. And it turns out to be ginny :o

Hmm...JKR has already proven that she can frighten with foreboding (plenty of close calls and misdirection through foreshadowing).

How about...we see ominous signs that bode ill for Neville. In the climactic conflict, he is recklessly brave and truly outshines himself - but at a price. We see him topple to the ground, stricken, and fear for the worst.

Then, the traditional aftermath chapter, Dumbledore sagely explaining all the loose plot threads...and a visit to the hospital ward where we learn that our Neville is resting, but expected to fully recover under Madame Pomfrey's expert care. This is followed by the lovely scene you just wrote.

[Fleurdelacour]

Neville will become the new Herbeology teacher - he cannot die after becoming so bloody wonderful in OotP! That goes for Ginny too! :p Though... that's not a bad idea Chiana...

[ChianaWeasley]

I would love to see Neville becoming an apprentice to professor Sprout, or perhaps become an apothecary apprentice. Did you ever notice that Neville is VERY good with plants, including remembering their names and uses. He's really not so forgetful...makes you wonder doesn't it?

It would be adorable if professor Sprout helped set Neville up with someone, perhaps a few years younger than him. :p :o

[Fleurdelacour]

I've just had a thought... Regarding Neville and his forgetfullness now that you've mentioned it...

Right, Neville's parents were brilliant in their hey-day, loved by all so it seems, and were aurors. Surely their son would turn out the same with the genes and that. Say... Bellatrix and her torture gang used Memory Charms on a baby Neville after torturing his Frank and Alice, so he wouldn't remember them and in later life tell someone, so they swiped his memory! And, well Memory Charms shouldn't be used on babies... And it's damaged his brain for life!

Aye, I'd like to see that too... He's not-going-to-die!

[ChianaWeasley]

It's very possible that his grandmother used a memory charm on him, or perhaps dumbledore. So he wouldn't suffer the memory of his parents being tortured, I think bellatrix and her lot woulf have tried to abolish him to bits instead of be nice enough to swipe his memory. UNLESS they swiped his memory so he couldn't identify them later on in life, in comes the penseive and all that jazz.

And i don't want to think of poor Neville dying, so back to matchmaking!!!

Ron and Hermione are just a no brainer

Harry and Ginny may be a possibility

:p

[Ayla]

Yeah, Harry and Ginny - soooo James and Lily. Harry has 'Padfoot' as his patronus - (following in dad's footsteps, ya know... :p ) So he might just fall for a redhead.
(Personally I hope he falls 4 da redhead - then there is hope 4 me 2!!!) :angel: :swoon:

[ChianaWeasley]

Well james did fall in love with lily this is true. and she also had red hair. but that doesn't mean that all Potter's are not immune to the effects of red headed females. But that doesn't nessacarily mean that it wont happen, we can still have hope ;)

What about Fred and George? Will they be married to their business, have fiancees for ten years, or life partners? I wonder if they could keep a girlfriend. I imagine it would be something along the lines of this;

"what happen to Veronica Fred?" asked ginny.

"she's still sore over a little incident-"

"little?! Fred here set her skirts on fire!"

"THAT was an accident!"

[Ayla]

Oh yeah! The 2 of them in love? That would be soooooo absolutely funny :LOL: :LOL:

[Fleurdelacour]

*squeals* Aww, fred and george in love!!

Well, we never found out the outcome of the Yule Ball. Fred went with Angelina...

What about George?...

Actually, that's a good idea for a fan fic... You people inspiring me :p

[ChianaWeasley]

Yep...

Chiana leans back into her computer chair, cracking her knuckles, and putting her feet on the desk

I often have the effect on 40% of the counties population ;)
What can I say?

I'm the eleventh Muse.

:notworthy

Well, they say who they both went with. Wasn't it Katie and Angelina? Anyway it would be adorable to see them in a relationship, and the chaos that would ensue :devil:

[Ayla]

Chaos? Definitely!!! :arrr:

[Peregrinning Took]

Aw, come on!!! Ginny is beating the crap out of everyone, when we all know he's going to end up with LUNA!!!

They have special moments together!!!! She quasi-knows about the curtain thing, she can see the threstles too.......

It's completely and blatantly obvious.......

Although he is mine, you know.

[ChianaWeasley]

Harry will definatley have something with Luna.

And ginny is meant for Neville who has always openly shown affection for her, more then we can say for Harry, who just now realized girls exsist. :rolleyes: boys;)

[owl]

I totally agree Chiana
grr! I'd keep writing but I keep hitting the delete key by mistake!:mad:

[Persephine]

I must say that I very shamelessly put..."HE'S MINE" on the poll. Sadly afterwards, I realized my folly. He's have been a great match with hermione, but she belongs to Ron, or so I see.

And then Ginny comes into the picture. She's sweet. But my money's on luna, cause' she's cool, in a strange sort of way. Plus, I think she'd be able to understand Harry. :p

Ginny might end up with Neville, though. She DID go to the Yule Ball with him.

[lizz]

Yes Ginny went to the Yule ball with Neville, but mainly because she wanted to go to the ball, I think she likes Neville, but remember how disappointed she was when ron suggested she should go with harry. Missed opportunity there.
and I think Luna is interested in ron, not in Harry. you do have a point there is a special understanding between them now. but I´m still for Ginny and harry, now she finally is able to talk in his presence and he notices her as a person.

[Persephine]

Yeah well...I still like Luna and Harry. But we'll wait and see who gets the Boy who Lived. :p

[Marchwarden]

If Harry had to fight Voldemort to the death 20 years from now, a good steady relationship might be a source of strength. With only two years to go, Harry simply doesn't have time for the trials and turbulence of incipient teenage relationships.

At the same time, he's a teenage boy who deserves a little tenderness in his chaotic life. That's why I hope Luna will be there for him. Cho's only real mistake was expecting him to fulfill the role of a 'normal' boyfriend.

Luna, I suspect, will intuitively realize that Harry doesn't have the choice of leading a 'normal' life. Thankfully, she's not all that normal herself. If the best thing for Harry is to find someone who can empathise with him and perhaps share some special moments without worrying about the spectre of his prophesized battle looming over them, I think Luna would be healthy for him. Besides, her offbeat perspective could be just the thing to snap him out of it when he starts getting too obsessed.

In the end, though, I think that Harry will be loved and admired and will have the whole wizarding world as his family, and eventually step into Dumbledore's role. I'm not sure he's destined to and up 'with' any one person.

Mind you, JKR's recent webchat seems vaguely slanted toward Harry-Ginny. I don't mind Harry-Ginny, except that it implies Neville-Nobody or Neville-RIP...