[HPforGrownups] Re: Marty's Devil's Advocate Post

[Kathleen Kelly MacMillan]

No: HPFGUIDX 7625

Penny wrote:

>I think she dated Krum because he paid romantic attention to her.  She
>had gotten to know him in the library after all, and discovered that he
>didn't enjoy having the gaggle of girls fawning all over him.  She got
>to know him as a person and liked what she saw well enough to accept a
>date with him.  I don't think she did it to goad either boy into
>anything.  I think she just wanted to be noticed as a girl, and Krum
>noticed her in that way.  And, she got to go to the Yule Ball.  Pretty
>evident that neither Ron nor Harry would have thought to ask her, except
>as a last resort.  So, she was probably smart to go with Krum.  It was
>her first real date, and she must have enjoyed the whole ritual of
>getting all dressed up as she took 3 hrs to do so!  <g>
>

Well I know Penny will never agree with this, but I am fully convinced that 
Hermione was half-hoping that Ron would ask her (maybe even kind of assuming 
he would).  In my universe, Krum asked her very early on and she told him she 
would have to think about it (still hoping that Ron would ask her) and then 
when Ron made that remark about "getting stuck with a pair of trolls", her 
reaction was feminist indignation combined with anger and disappointment at 
the realization that Ron wasn't even thinking about asking her.  Then she said 
yes to Viktor. (Hey, if the H/H people can make stuff up, why can't I?)


Kathy