Ron is about laughter and the light and stupid pranks and boyhood, that thing he never truly had but wishes he did. Hermione is something different. Hermione is the silences, the words he doesn't have to say, the quiet he has long since had engraved into his bones. Hermione is about the quiet, serious calm. The two of them—they're perfect halves of him, he thinks sometimes.

Ive never seen anyone write and explain this better, and more beautifully.

They get from each other, what they dont, from anyone else. And it inevitably, with how things ended, would change. They CANT be what they used to be. And its GOT to hurt.

And this is so in Harry's head, he would be in turmoil, pain, he has to be. Its two of his best friend ffs! I will never buy he was alright with this happening, nuh uh. Dude is emotionally stunted, and slow to see things, but this HAS to rock him!