SHIP: Krum/Hermione (was H/H: Muddying the pool)

[babelfisherperson]

No: HPFGUIDX 31440

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "ftah3" <ftah3 at y...> wrote:
> I don't have a particularly strong opinion as to H/H, H/R, H
> (arry/ermione)/?, but ~
> 
> "bbennett320178" wrote:
> > I've known this guy for 6 months or so. He 
> > likes me. I know he likes me, and while I think he's nice person, 
I 
> > don't have any romantic interest in him. When I'm around him, I 
try 
> > to think of nice, pleasant conversation, and I try not to get 
into 
> > intimate discussions, hoping he'll get the hint. He hasn't, and 
if 
> > you were to ask him, he may think we're much closer than we 
> > actually are - but just because I've known him all this time 
> doesn't 
> > mean that I feel we are good friends. Hermione may very well feel 
> > like Krum is a good friend, but it's not unreasonable to argue 
that 
> > she doesn't, even after 5 months - especially considering we 
> already 
> > know Hermione isn't the type to have a lot of close friends. 
> 
> Aha!  See, neverminding any interpretation I make of the Trio's 
> interrelationship, this is exactly what I interpret in terms of 
> Hermione's relationship with Krum ~ that he's interested in dating 
> her, she's not interested in dating him but finds no reason to be 
> outright rude...though his attention is a bit awkward at times.  In 
> this light, I'd say that she *would* probably stick to neutral 
common
> interests, the Triwizard Tourney and thereby Harry (and not Ron) 
> coming to mind more often.
> 
> Also, I think it is within the realm of possibility that Hermione 
> *doesn't* talk about Harry particularly often.  However, Krum, 
> influenced like so many others by Rita Skeeter's misrepresentation 
of 
> Harry & Hermy's relationship, might be super-sensitive to any time 
> Harry does come up in conversation (even, probably, if it was he 
that 
> brought Harry up in said conversation).  In other words, Hermy 
might 
> talk of Ron and Harry equally, or of Ron a lot and Harry in 
passing, 
> or heck she might gabble on about Crookshanks non-stop and mention 
> Harry only because he's occasionally in the same room as 
Crookshanks; 
> but Krum would pick up on the times Harry comes up because he's 
> predisposed to consider Harry as competition.
> 
> I dunno.  How good a source of info is a jealous young man, as by 
> definition jealousy often comes from misinterpretation of 
> events/conversation, paranoia, and other kinds of reality-twisting 
> extrapolations?
> 
> And where, by the way, *was* I going with this post?
> 
> Mahoney
> wandering off to track down her point....

But, there's no indication that Viktor ever even READ Skeeter's 
articles, let alone believed them. For one thing, he didn't strike me 
as the kind of guy who would try to steal a girl away from her 
boyfriend, and had he read (and believed) Skeeter's articles, he'd 
have thought Harry was her boyfriend. Also, being Bulgarian, it's 
likely that he wouldn't have a subscription to an ENGLISH newspaper, 
and I'm not at all convinced that a gossip column would be translated 
into other languages. Also, even if he had read those articles, I 
tend to think that he'd believe Hermione when she told him that 
Skeeter is full of crap & makes up her stories.

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