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If your reason for not shipping Ron and Hermione is because of all their bickering... you have a child's grasp of their characters.

Ron has five brothers and a little sister. You have to be quick witted to keep up with the amount of friendly fire going on inside that house. The loudest gets heard. He's always ready for a fight.

Hermione secretly judges people by their ability to keep up with her intellectually. Condescension is a reflex. It pushes people away before they can actually match her (because god forbid she lose).

Unstoppable force meets immovable object. Ron can't stop once he gets started and Hermione is too stubborn to admit she's wrong. And, the thing is, they both clearly love it.

Hermione wouldn't want a "yes" man and Ron wouldn't want someone who can't handle teasing. He challenges her intellect, and she gets an intellectual challenge. It's a win win.

mark/eve development if it was good

let them slow-burn it all throughout season 3. if they aren't a couple yet, what does it really rob us of? a montage of romantic moments, of which there were about three? the invincible inc. arc, and even then it only being specifically about them getting a house together? conversations on the rooftop where she behaves like his therapist and he shows very little interest in her inner life?

for starters: future eve does NOT tell mark that eve loves him and needs him to give her an answer. this was terrible for her character, and that's even acknowledged in the show, so i cannot fathom why this was necessary to get them together. a meaningful look would have conveyed everything that needed to be said

instead, mark sees future eve - beaten down by time, but always resilient - and thinks, wow, she looks so sad. she doesn't want to admit it, but i know her. i want to do more to be there for my eve, my friend eve, in the present. we're in a unique position to understand each other, but that doesn't mean we always will, so i'm going to make an effort

things we could focus on to show mark falling for eve gradually: her interactions with oliver, and how she's able to get through to him better than mark can sometimes. her desire to keep up with "mundane" things like taking classes to be more responsible with her powers. her actually disagreeing with mark, maybe on something big, and him realizing how much he values her opinions. her being in both worlds with him, the hero and the civilian, and how that gives him the ability to share it all with her fully. show don't tell. please

show eve's perspective, too. her wondering if it's right for her to feel something for mark when she's so close with amber, when mark has so much on his plate... she needs to be sure, too. she doesn't want to feel like they're only together because it's easy. maybe she could have a non-specific conversation about it with her new friend from college

when mark is being attacked and thinks he's going to die, we should see him thinking of eve. not just eve, though. maybe brief flashes of everyone who's important to him - and eve is one of those people! don't just have him say that he thought of her, because it feels cheap, and that she's the only one he thought of, because it feels unearned

...but he gets in his own head about why he saw her that way. does he want to protect her the same way he does his fanily & friends, or does he just want her close? maybe he started seeing their possible future together and it felt different, and she didn't look so sad as she did in that abandoned earth, and he doesn't know how to tell her any of this?

when eve is attacked by conquest, that's the breaking point. that's when mark has to confess to her, if she's even able to hear it. he's realized just how important she is to him and in what way - and eve, who has had time to really think about her own feelings too, is able to reciprocate. in near death and rebirth, in vulnerability and openess, they finally come together. a new beginning. now they know

rawr xD

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Sirius: *irritated* Just because I can turn into a dog, does NOT mean I act like one.

James: *raises eyebrow* Oh, yeah?

James: *throws quill across the room* Hey Padfoot, go fetch.

Sirius: *actually fighting himself to hold still* I despise you.

Remus: Here, I got an idea.

Remus: *walks over and tips Sirius' chin up with his finger* Who's my good boy?

Sirius: *absolutley melts*

James: *reluctantly impressed* Get a fucking room.

Something you only realize when reading the book first is that the people who watch the movies first are so misled on many characters ( mainly Ron , Sirius, James and Snape )

I'm gonna take Snape as an example first because I believe he has the most noticeable change. Snape is not a buff adequately attractive male dilf with a tendency to bully Harry , with a deep voice .

Bro is a thin, scrawny, girly pop with long hair with feminine handwriting, an almost unhealthy acquaintances with rich death eaters. Snape was never a purist, and even his love for Lily being romantic is questionable ( I personally think it's more of a siblings like attachment thing ) . Bro just wanted to get powerful, and Malfoy was like, " Let me just take this socially dumb boy to shower him with fake praises and tell him that joining the death eaters will give him powerful ). Snape didn't go around killing muggleborn people. He barely hated anyone, and the group he was mad at had 3 people who tried to kill him. One almost succeeded ( Read the books. Sirius mentions this in the Prisoner of Azkaban and the Order of Pheonix )

Snape is like the transcoded tragic genius who is being played on the string like a puppet and gets so cranky because of it that he ends up snaping on children and gives out mean comments.