No-ship Harry - Gorgeous Granger

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 20798

Rebecca wrote:

> Oh, I don't think it would keep him from falling in love.  But I 
think he
> would have to fight his feelings like crazy (and probably be 
unsuccessful in
> some regards), which would make it all the more tragic.  

Yep, I'm with you totally.

>Or maybe I'm making
> this TOO dark...

Nah.  Pile on the angst!  However, speaking of tragedy, I do draw the 
line at killing Sirius.  Is there something personal going on here, I 
wonder?  I am so drawn to Harry's parent issues that you'd think I'd 
lost =my= parents in infancy.  My dad did come very close to dying 
when I was only in my 20's, so maybe the thought of Sirius dying 
pushes some buttons.  I know Harry's going to suffer in the next three 
books, and in my perverse way I'm looking forward to it, but Sirius . 
. . that would be so cruel.

Rebecca wrote <lots of good stuff on Hermione at the ball>

> I don't recall JKR mentioning cosmetics in her description of 
Hermione:
> just the hair and the robes.  I think Harry and Ron would have 
noticed (and
> probably Ron would have said something acid) if Hermione had been 
wearing
> any appreciable amount of makeup.
> 
> So my take on all this is that Hermione didn't really undergo a
> Cinderella-like transformation from a plain girl into a pretty one; 
I think
> she simply made herself look different for the Ball, and defeated 
Ron and
> Harry's expectations of her in such a way that they realized hey, 
this girl
> IS a girl and she's not half bad to look at, either.

I think that's true--I didn't mean the makeup comment literally.  The 
transformation is mostly in Harry's and Ron's perceptions (and 
everyone else's--Pansy, Draco, everyone's a little stunned to see how 
pretty Hermione is).  It's still the Cinderella formula--all 
Cinderella needed was a bath and some nice clothes, right?

Amy Z

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