P.O.A Harry and Hermione

[Theresa]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "truthbeauty1" <rh64643 at ...> 
wrote:
>
> It is odd for me to hear all the Harry and Hermione talk concerning
> P.O.A. For me, this is the most clearly and loudly Ron/Hermione 
movie
> to date. The scenes where Hermione and Harry have physical contact 
are
> times of either extreme danger, or great emotion on Harry's part.
> Harry only has two close friends, and I don't see Ron comforting a
> crying Harry. The dangerous scenes: well most of the time they are
> helping one another. They are running from a werewolf and escaping 
a
> murderous tree. Some hand holding and other contact might be
> necessary. For me, Harry and Hermione's contact in the movies is so
> clearly platonic. They are soo close, in a sibling kind of way, 
that
> it doesn't matter if they hold hands every once in a while. I am
> pretty sure that when Hermione is holding onto Harry with Werewolf
> Lupin right in front of them, Harry is not thinking "Does Hermione
> Like me?" Neither one of them thinks anything of it. They don't 
have
> those kinds of feelings for one another. Of course this is all my
> opinion, but in Highschool, which was only about 2 years ago for 
me, I
> had one guy friend that I literally had no romantic feelings for, 
and
> I was very comfortable around him. I may have acted in some ways 
that
> are typically girlfriend type behaviors, but since neither of us
> thought that way about the other, it didn't matter. We were just 
being
> friends. I can say that with the boys I thought more about, well it
> was much more of a "Ron" reaction.
>  truthbeauty1
>
Now Theresa
I have been watching this topic off and on over the past few days 
and just had to chime in. I have always thought in both the books 
and the films that Hermione and Harry have a strong, platonic 
relationship. Like another poster I grew up having mostly male 
friends and unlike that poster said, in my circle of friends it was 
ok for me to hug or even hold hands with any of them - I was 
their "sister". None of them nor I ever thought twice about being 
more than friends. They would pat my shoulder when I cried or give 
me a hug and in return I would give them advice on girls they liked. 
Now that I am 43 - it is funny but men still ask me for "girl 
advice" from what would be a good present for my wife's birthday to 
how do I know if this woman really likes me. I am also the mother of 
2 boys (11 and 14) and they hug their female friends when they 
haven't seen them in a while. And the girls and my sons don't mean 
anything by it other than "we are good friends". So I suppose this 
is my basis for why I have always felt Hermione and Harry are pals 
and how I can see Dan and Emma just being pals. 

As for Ron and Hermione, I always wondered about those two. In the 
books not so much though their little bickering every now and then 
reminded me of many couples in stories and film that started out as 
friends who picked at each other until one day passion hit them. But 
they do hang out together even without Harry in the books - Hogsmede 
in book 3, she visits the Burrow and GP etc. Now in the films it is 
a different story. In SS/PS, when Harry leaves the hospital Ron and 
Hermione are chatting together. In CoS, there is the awkward 
handshake at the end of the film. In PoA, there are loads of 
examples, first the almost holding hands deal, the shrieking shack -
 "want to move closer, what?, to the shack.", she hugs Ron at 
the "death of Buckbeak", and the scene after the shack. In GoF of 
course book and film you have the ultimate showdown after the ball. 
I think in the book that was when I KNEW she liked him and he 
possibly liked her too and Harry was the only one who had figured 
out both of them. She says "...next time as me first instead of as a 
last resort." - so she likes him and then he claims she totally 
missed the point. Meanwhile Harry is thinking - she got the point 
totally and Ron is missing it. That was when I thought, aha there is 
more than meets the eye. Now in the film it appears as if Hermione 
is all a flutter over Krum and I suppose she was flattered in the 
book but I think she still really liked Ron already. She also showed 
her contempt look when he talked about Fleur and company - not as 
much as in the book but it is there.

Anyway, just thought I would add my 2 knuts sorry for the long-
winded response.

Theresa

PS: Does anyone think that maybe since Aberforth is in the OotP film 
and not Fletcher that perhaps in book 7 he plays a bigger part? His 
brother is murdered at the end of HBP so maybe...I don't know. Just 
thinking out loud. I know JKR reviewed the script so it gave me 
pause for thought when I heard about Aberforth being cast.