[HPforGrownups] SHIP:(?) Re: Why *does* Hermione like Ron?

[Aberforth's Goat]

No: HPFGUIDX 20833

 Jim Ferrer observed,
 > JKR did say there's something going on, but it's *RON* who doesn't
> know it yet ['typical boy', JKR says] meaning it's Hermione who
> "knows." This is the opposite of what most of us have thought. After
> that, I'm lost. I have no idea what attracts Hermione to Ron. It's too
> easy for us to forget that she's only fourteen too.

 <SNIP>

> See above. Apparently he is that thick, a typical fourteen year old
> male oaf.

With Penny receiving her emails in little bottles on a raft floating
somewhere above Houston, I suppose she must have missed that one ... (In
passing, must say I'm a little disappointed in the renowned H&H cruise liner
... where's the Good Ship, when you need it, anyway?) So I guess I'll step
in to play the ... er ... List Mom's Advocate. <evil grin>

Anyway: When I mentioned that quote a few months back, H&H shippers pointed
out that the statement above does not actually concern whether Hermione is
in love with Ron or vice versa. It only clarifies (1) that something is the
case and (2) that Hermione knows it. Who actually has the hots for whom is
left open.


It could be construed that Ron, as Ovid so aptly put it, "amat sed non
sentit amorem," whereas Hermione is aware of a passion she doesn't requite.
Of course, Ovid was talking about a girl not a boy--and also (more to the
point), he got banished to Romania for epistolary misbehavior, which might
well happen to me if I don't slink back into my pen and hide for a while...


Baaaaaa!


Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray)
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