Ron's Jealousy of Harry; Neuroses of Ron & Hermione (Long)

[Kristin]

No: HPFGUIDX 16831

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer <pennylin at s...>  

Penny wrote:

> Shipper or no, you're making a fairly broad assumption there.  It's
> unsupported by evidence. <snip> To use your same logical analysis, 
> I would want some evidence for your assertion that Hermione doesn't 
> spend time with anyone outside of Harry and Ron.  When she's "off- 
> screen," we can't know where she is or what she's doing.  Evidence 
> that Harry & Ron observe her studying alone on various occasions   
> when they are estranged from her in the PoA fight is not solid     
> evidence that she unequivocally doesn't have any other friends or  
> other activities to occupy her time.
> 
 

Although I agree with most everything you wrote I do disagree that 
Hermione has friends outside of Harry and Ron at least based on PoA. 
One example of that is of coutse her studying alone. Another is when
Hagrid sends for Ron and Harry (pg. 273 PoA US):

"She's in a righ' state, that's what. She's bin comin' down ter visit 
a lot since Christmas. Bin feelin' lonely. Firs' yeh weren' talking 
to her because o' the Firebolt, now yer not talking to her because 
her cat--"

I get from this quote that she visits Hagrid alot because she doesn't 
really have anyone else to hangout with aside from Ron and Harry. 
Also she is taking more classes than anyone else so I see a lot of 
her free time taken up with studying and not leaving much time to 
make other friendships. 

Then there is the perception that she's a bossy know-it-all by 
everyone, and the best student in school.  When your 12,13,etc. that 
type of behavior doesn't endear you to your peers. I get the 
impression that most of the kids don't really like her because of 
that and thus gives another reason why she wouldn't have any other 
friends. 

Of course we don't see her every move and maybe she does have other 
friends, more like aquaintences, but I just, IMHO, don't really see 
it.

  Cheers,
          Kristin