SHIP: Hermione and Mad-Eye Moody/Lupin's Mistake

[cindysphynx]

No: HPFGUIDX 31568

Joyce wrote (about the H/MM Ship):

> 
> Joyce (who agrees with Cindy that Shipping can be entertaining)

Goodness, shipping is really addictive, isn't it?  There's even more 
canon support for the H/MM Ship than I first thought.  

In "The Unforgivable Curses":   "Hermione's hand shook slightly as, 
for the third time, she raised it into the air.  . . . '*Avada 
Kedavra*', Hermione whispered."  IIRC, this is the only place in the 
HP series in which Hermione raises her hand in a manner that is not 
aggressive and confident.  Hermione Granger, visibly trembling and 
answering a question in a whisper?  For some reason, she just can't 
be herself when Mad-Eye Moody is around.  

Then, in "The Dream," Hermione finally shows how deeply obsessed she 
is with her Mad-Eye.  The trio sends an owl to Sirius and talks with 
Fred and George.  Then Ron suggests they go down to breakfast.  
Hermione says, "D'you think it's too early to go and see Professor 
Moody?"  She'll do anything for a glimpse of Mad-Eye; she actually 
proposes visiting him at a time when he probably *is not even 
dressed*!  

I know, I know, at first, it sounds far-fetched.  But Hermione is a 
stand-out at Hogwarts, being one of the brightest and most successful 
students.  Mad-Eye Moody is an accomplished auror, famous and one of 
the best.  It makes sense that two ambitious and successful people 
would be attracted to each other.  What does *not* make sense is that 
Hermione would prefer Ron or Harry, who are not nearly as ambitious 
as she is.

Bottom line:  JKR has given us incontrovertable proof that Hermione 
is smitten with The Man With The Wheezy Growl.  I'm sold.

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Catlady wrote (about the door opening by itself in the Shrieking 
Shack):

>HOW COULD LUPIN HAVE BEEN SO STUPID! is my question every time I 
>read 
> that scene. Even the first time I read the book, it was obvious 
>that 
> that was an invisible spy, altho' then I didn't know it was Snape.

Yes, Lupin was definitely off his game that night.  He forgets to 
take his potion, forgets to wipe the map clean or take it with him, 
doesn't see the invisibility cloak on the ground, forgets that doors 
don't open by themselves, devises a lame way of transporting Peter 
back to the castle, and forgets there will be a full moon.  

I guess I could launch a tepid defense regarding the door.  No one in 
the Shrieking Shack had enough knowledge to put all the pieces 
together and figure out someone might be there in an invisibility 
cloak.  Lupin didn't know about the cloak (and I don't believe he has 
any idea Harry even has a cloak).  Harry doesn't know Lupin left the 
map on his desk, or that Snape would have reason to go to Lupin's 
office.  Black knows about the cloak (presumably he saw the kids take 
it off to chase Scabbers), but he doesn't know about the moon, the 
potion or the map.  

I've always been more troubled about why Lupin doesn't wipe the map 
clean.  I know, I know.  He forgot.  <heavy sigh>  

Cindy (who thinks the H/MM Ship definitely needs an acronym)