Gift code (was Main List's: Why Ron Loves Hermione)

[Przemyslaw Plaskowicki]

Kath Lane wrote:

I snipped all SHIP discussion...

> The perfume as a present is
>rather a strong indicator though that it is tending to a romance.
>
The same thing said Sandy:

> I gotta add: Ron bought Hermione >*perfume*< for Christmas in OoP.


I also see this as a indication of a Ron's romantic feelings. But why?
It seems that there is some kind of a gift-giving cultural code that I 
was aware of only subconsiously. Moreover, this gift-giving code, seems 
to be very wide since none of listees objected this argument. It 
appears, that some gifts are meaning something more than the others -- 
in this case book means friendship, perfume means romantic feelings.
Is there really is some gift-giving-code in our cultures?

Pshemekan -- who is contemplating social behaviour of modern humans