threads converge: Alvin Ailey, gifts

[jdr0918]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Laura Ingalls Huntley 
wrote:...*indulges in an eye roll or two* Oh, please. Is Hermione 
really that kind of girl?  I think the only reason she wasn't 
*annoyed* with the gift was that she knew that Ron had good 
*intentions*, but no experience. And I still maintain that a book can 
be a very romantic gift, esp. when given to a girl like Hermione...I 
suspect the *real* reason, however, is because JKR doesn't want to 
bring the final romantic pairings to a head until the climatic 7th 
book, in which Ron and Hermione have a disgustingly cute and awkward 
love affair which leaves Harry as the odd-man out, therefore causing 
him to spend more time with Ginny "Damsel in Distress. Wait, No, I 
Meant Paradigm of Girl Power" Weasley...>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

*That* kind of girl? Harumph! Just because Hermione is a 
overintellectual bookworm does not mean that she is not a real girl, 
and what real girl could resist the looks on the faces of people like 
Lavender and Parvati? Just like when she showed up at the Yule Ball 
with a killer date. And books are a romantic gift from a sensitive 
guy -- you just know Ron would get it wrong. It really is the thought 
that counts, and that's what keeps Avon in business: ask any grade 
school teacher you know if he or she has ever actually opened the 
exotically shaped bottles of cologne they get on Christmas from eight-
year-olds.

As for Ginny -- yeah, I guess she can handle Harry, but jeez! I can't 
see Ginny having the patience to be the nurturing companion Harry 
needs. Well, if Harry can't go gaily off into the sunset with Draco, 
I guess Ginny can't be gay either and she can't be an unmarried loose 
end, so they might as well end up with each other as opposed to being 
killed off...

--JDR