>>9375695Ron and Hermione are in the Transfiguration set, and even there they were viewed as wasted slots. The Potions book was the best of the wave since you got a great IRA Seamus Finnigan with explosion faceprint. Generic Rons and Hermiones, particularly Rons, are generally frowned upon by the LEGO HP fanbase because you end up with endless useless extra copies of them. It's part of why the new Chamber of Secrets Hogwarts hub set is good - no Ron or Hemione wasted slots, it's vastly preferable to get obscure randos like Justin Finch-Fletchley because it fills out the Hogwarts scenes better. You can't walk two paces into the HP theme without bumping into endless iterations of first/second-year Ron, Hermione or Harry. Certain sets annoying are handcuffed into having to include boring versions of the core trio, the Fluffy encounter is a particular standout - there's no way LEGO could make the kit without putting in a crappy 1st-year trio of Ron, Harry, and Hermione, when 90% of buyers already have multiple copies of those characters as first-years. Thus, any time there is an opportunity to pick a student to put in a day-to-day Hogwarts set, the choice should never be of the core trio, unless they have a scene-specific costume. The Chess set is a good example of this - all 3 have unique outfits for that scene in the 1st movie, so you're actually getting something useful out of it. 40419 Hogwarts Students set is a handy "battlepack" because you get 1 of each House outfit so you can easily fill out the ranks of non-Gryffindor characters, who are generally sorely underrepresented.
