The Kiss

[Ebony]

No: HPFGUIDX 7557

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Kathleen Kelly MacMillan 
<kathleen at c...> wrote:
> Thought of something else...
> 
> Yet another reason why I don't believe H/H is plausible:  How come 
Ron did not get jealous of all the tabloid articles pairing up Harry 
and Hermione?  Yes, there was the "scarlet woman" remark and all 
that, but it seemed to me he was pretty jealous of Viktor and didn't 
even seem bothered by the Harry-thing...

To tell you the truth, Kathy, that surprised me too.  Here's a few 
possible explanations:

1)  Viktor has shown active interest in Hermione.  Harry hasn't.  In 
fact, he's been quite vocal about the fact that they are *just 
friends*.

2)  If Hermione does like either of the two, she's doing a good 
enough job of hiding her feelings that Ron wouldn't pick up on 
anything less than kosher in her reactions to the articles.  Girls at 
that age are good at doing that... I remember I had a crush on a 
friend from 7th to 10th grade--to this day he doesn't know about that 
phase.  We grew up together, even went to the same college for 
undergrad--he never knew how I felt. 

3)  Is Ron a person who "picks up on things"?  I'm not picking on his 
character (this time), but he doesn't seem to be as perceptive as he 
perhaps should be.

> Have you noticed I always emerge from lurkdom when this topic comes 
up?  You 
> know, back when I first joined this list, I didn't care one way or 
the other, 
> but somewhere along the line I became a devout R/H shipper.  Ah 
well...

That's okay, we won't hold it against you.  :)  Today I realized that 
I wasn't a post-GoF R/H shipper for six weeks... it was only for 
seven days, thank goodness.  "And on the seventh day, she found PoU 
and learned that there was hope for H/H after all."

--Ebony