SHIP: Viktor & Hermione sitting in a tree

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 11812

Hi --

Kathleen Kelly MacMillan wrote:

> Pssst!  Hey Penny!  We actually agree on something again!  (I think
> that
> brings it up to 4; we really should start keeping a list. <g>)

Ooh, 4!  That's great Kathy!  <g>

> This actually made me think of something I wanted to bring up here.
> Penny, in your review of one of the recent parts of my fanfic, you
> mentioned that you had thought that Hermione had gotten to know Viktor
> fairly well before he asked her to the Yule Ball.  My assumption was
> that she had not, because a) there were only a few weeks between the
> First Task (i.e. the time Harry would have been in the library with
> her) and the announcement of the Ball  and b) Viktor and Hermione's
> conversation at the Yule Ball (i.e. him telling her about his school)
> seemed very introductory to me, a topic they would have already talked
> about if they had spoken at any great length.

These are good points, although like you point out, I think the
pronounciation thing was more just a great place for JKR to illustrate
it for the readers.  A few weeks would be enough time for them to know
each other reasonably well.  The conversation we overhear at the Yule
Ball may just be the sort of topic one has when you're in a new
situation -- that was their first date.  Sometimes the conversation
veers toward "safe topics" when you're in that situation.  Remember
those awkward adolescent dating moments?  <g>

It's just a gut feeling with me -- I just assume that they'd at least
had a few conversations.  I don't think he just asked her out of the
blue.  Although she did say he'd been coming to the library, trying to
work up the nerve to talk to her.  That implies that he asked her one of
the first times he spoke to her I suppose.  Hmmm .... interesting.  Very
interesting question.

Penny


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