Krum & Hermione

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: Krum & Hermione
Reply To: [Yahoo! #7360] Krum & Hermione
Date: 8/20/00 3:10 pm  (ET)

> but this guy is telling her he's never felt this way about anyone
before. Sounds like "playa" moves to me.

Remember, the person most dear to him in task II was Hermione - not his
mother, not his brother, not his friend from from elementary school,
not his Quidditch coach....

For an 18-year-old world celebrity athlete to fall hard for a 14-year-old
know-it-all indicates that something is either very wrong or very right
with Viktor.

Very wrong: maybe he is a late bloomer and finds girls closer to his own
age excessively mature for him, maybe he has low self esteem problems
that make him like a girl who bosses him around, etc.

Very right: He is sufficiently mature to appreciate Hermione's unshowy
virtues such as loyalty and courage, and to recognize that her show-offy
intelligence is a virtue rather than (as well as) an annoyance.

However, since Viktor turned out to be a good guy despite his name,
I am confident that he will be killed in Book V, which is inconvenient
for romances.