[HPforGrownups] SHIP: Ron likes Hermione?

[Kathleen Kelly MacMillan]

No: HPFGUIDX 13571

OK, I am sure that no one will be surprised that I don't agree with the idea 
that Ron doesn't like Hermione!

Star wrote all the stuff after the >s:
>Ron thought of Hermione as a last resort, if he liked her why didn't he ask
>her before hand, he could have 'pretended' he wanted to go as friends but
>no, he didn't even think of her till it was too late.

JKR herself has said that Ron doesn't know what's going on yet.  I think it's 
pretty clear he just hasn't admitted his feelings, even to himself, yet.

>Also, Ron didn't seem mad that she was going with some one else before the
>dance at all, if it would have been just another student I don't think ROn
>would have gotten mad.

I definitely have to disagree here.  He asked her repreatedly who she was 
going with.  That wasn't casual curiosity.

>I think Ron got mad b/c he was jealous not of not going with Hermione but
>b/c Hermione got to go with his 'hero'.

I think you have a point; the fact that it was Krum was probably a part of it.
 But I disagree that he wouldn't have been jealous if it had been anyone else.
 Remember how extra-disgusted Ron was at Hermione's crush on Lockhart?  The 
fact that it's Krum she goes with makes it sting more.  But it would have 
gotten to him either way.  There's no doubt in my mind about that.

I think this is an interesting argument but, like I said, I don't buy it.  If 
nothing else, I don't see how you could square this with Hermione's statement 
and Harry's thoughts at the end of the Yule Ball, about how Hermione had 
gotten the point much better than Ron had.  This exchange makes it very clear 
to me, at least, that Ron wanted to go to the Ball with Hermione.


Cap'n Kathy
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