SHIP: Re: Krum/Hermione

[bbennett320178]

No: HPFGUIDX 31413

 <Ah, but at the time of the Harry-Krum conversation, Krum isn't 
someone 
she barely knows. That conversation takes place in the last week of 
May 
per GoF, so it's a full 5 months after the Yule Ball. She may well 
have 
not known Viktor terribly well when she accepted his invitation to 
the 
Ball (since this acceptance of a date is apparently roughly 5-7 weeks 
after he arrived at Hogwarts on Halloween). But, by late May, I think 
we can assume that Hermione knows Krum reasonably well. Cassie makes 
the point that we don't know much about the Hermione/Krum 
relationship 
in the intervening months between the Yule Ball & the end of the 
book, 
but we do know that he asked her to visit in Bulgaria & she was his 
"thing he'd miss most" in the 2nd Task in late Feb. All of this 
suggests to me that Hermione was spending *some* amount of time with 
Krum, and it would seem that they have moved past the "awkward 
conversation" stage of the relationship.>

She's probably spending all the time she doesn't spend with Harry 
with Krum, since H/Hrs argue there's no proof she spends any of it 
with Ron<bg>. No, siriusly, you're right, Penny, Hermione has been 
acquainted with Krum for 5 months, but that doesn't necessarily mean 
she's developed a friendship with him or that they're past the 
awkward conversation phase; neither do Krum's feelings for Hermione 
mean she feels comfortable around him. All we know is that Hermione 
has had conversations with Viktor, that she's talked about Harry, and 
that Krum has developed feelings for Hermione. As you said, there are 
too many things we don't know about the relationship; my point was 
simply that Hermione talking about Harry to Krum does not equal 
Hermione liking Harry as more than a friend.  

„« Either way I chew on the fact that Viktor is jealous of Harry,
I
> cannot see it as an argument *for* Hermione being interested in Ron
> that she does not talk about him much. What's next? "Ron asked her
> out and she said no. Aha! She's interested! If she really didn't 
like
> him, she'd say yes!"

<Hee, hee.

Oh, stop it. You two are terrible. :b

;) B

p.s. For anyone who's interested, Arabella wrote an outstanding take 
on GoF from Hermione's POV (Hermione Queen of Witches), and Elanor 
Gamgee is writing an excellent version of GoF from Krum's POV (Moody 
Slavic Man). Both do a great job with character interpretation of the 
events in that book. HQoW has a (very, very well written) R/H slant, 
but MSM is strictly Krum's POV.. Both stories are at The Sugar Quill 
(www.sugarquill.net).