Some thoughts about the next movie

[saintbacchus]

Okay, so, now I guess I'll reply to a thread that wasn't over 
YESTERDAY. Stupid thread view.

Anyway, I don't think that Hermione and Ron's romantic relationship 
has progressed to the point where she'd be "flip-flopping" if she 
went with someone else to the Yule Ball. Just because they're 
furtively holding hands a couple times doesn't mean their 
relationship has to progress to dating over the summer (or at all). 
It could plausibly be on hold while they work out whether or not 
they'd like to be more than friends.

Besides, even if Hermione really wanted to go with Ron, I think 
she'd go with someone else in the absence of any clue that *he* 
wanted to go with *her*. Here's the way I imagine it playing out in 
the movies: Ron actually wants to ask Hermione, but can't work up 
the nerve to do it (or possibly thinks he'd be betraying Harry). 
Since he hasn't given her any solid indication that he wants to go 
with her, she ends up going with Krum instead. The romance thread 
pauses there with Ron and Hermione unsure of what the other thinks, 
and then whoever's making movie 5 can decide whether or not they'd 
like to continue it in that movie.

It wouldn't make sense to play it exactly the way it is in the book, 
because Movie!Ron is obvious farther along, girl-noticing-wise, than 
Book!Ron (even at the end of OotP).

What do you think, sirs?
--Anna