Penny & Barb's comments

[Barb]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "Megan" <virtualworldofhp at y...> wrote:
> <Cassandra wrote:>
> 
> Maybe you're right about the Ron/Harry 
> > shippiness, cos that's all I'm seeing here.
> 
> I understand where you're coming from in saying this (other 
> people's POVs) but why can't two people simply be best friends 
> without everyone jumping up and shouting, "slash couple!" (I was 
> going to say "gay", but I figured that sounded a little much)?  

That was just me being tongue-in-cheek and playing devil's advocate 
by pointing out some equally ambiguous possible Ron/Hermione moments 
without telegraphing it (the tongue-in-cheek/devil's advocate stuff) 
very well.  I'm just slightly baffled by the arguments of this bit 
being R/H, that bit being H/H, everyone pointing out that Harry 
doesn't give Ginny a glance, etc.  

I don't think the film is really shippy at all, and that was 
something I really like about it.  I was mentioning the Ron/Harry 
ship because it's as plausible at this point as the Ron/Hermione or 
Harry/Hermione ships, which is to say not at all.  Looking for signs 
of future Potterverse shipping in this film is futile, I believe.  I 
would say that there is no hidden meaning in Harry being moved to 
the same side of the table as Hermione, Hermione looking at Harry 
over Ron's inert (albeit twitching) body and Harry slipping out of 
the Devil's Snare before Ron.  They are just shy of twelve, for 
heaven's sake.  Look for shippiness when we get to PoA, if you will, 
but it just feels out of place for the first film.

--Barb