H/H and why it's just wrong and it IS wrong

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 2298

It's just wrong. Those of us who know that have good instincts about 
this stuff (if I used emoticons, I would use one that indicated that 
this was a little joke, not meant seriously at all).

It is true that people who are friends later become lovers.

I think that there are all kinds of indicators that Ron and Hermione 
will have a relationship. As I said before, I have the feeling that 
Harry will be the third person in the same way Sirius was the best 
man for Harry and Lily.

I DO think Hermione has indicated feelings for Ron. She finally
confronts his jealousy by suggesting he ask her out more quickly next 
time. She is QUITE annoyed when he succumbs to the Fleur/veela allure.

Harry indicates STRONGLY that Hermione is NOT his girlfriend. There 
is NO indication that he will change his feelings, yet there are lots 
of indicators that both Hermione and Ron are already interested in 
each other. Harry cares for Hermione as a good friend, but it's 
his "wheezy" who he would miss the most.

Hermione is flattered by Viktor and likes him, but is obviously not 
romantically interested in him the way he is in her.

Ron and Hermione have always spatted in the tradition of adolescent 
crushes  -- from the first book --- are you a witch or what?  (and by 
the way, I remember the name of every single one of my adolescent 
crushes from Helen Sanford, the camp bugler at Camp Teata when I was 
12 to George Thom my social studies teacher in West Hempstead, New 
York when I was 14, etc. etc. etc.)

But most tellingly, they become "oddly formal" with each other.

I can't wait for the next book to watch their blossoming romance 
continue....

Susan