[HPforGrownups] Re: SHIP: Ron & the Yule Ball

[morine10 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 13655

Dr. Branford, I cannot believe that you do not have *any* medi-wizard 
emergencies!  I can't imagine with all your duties you have time to spend on 
this silly shipper stuff. :)  


> Simon wrote: 
> <I 
> this Hermione nonsense. Hence I should support the Ron/Hermione lot, 
> as that would leave the path open for my preference. >
> 
> Simon, I've just seen the light - H/H all the way! :*)
> 
> > Hermione may say that line to Ron, but that is almost certainly 
> because it is Ron that is making a big deal about all of the ball 
> stuff. They are in the middle of an argument in which Ron is making a 
> big deal out of nothing and Harry has just walked in and witnesses 
> the end of it.>
> 
> Having been a 14 year old girl, I have to disagree with your 
> reasoning, Simon.  At that age, I never would have said something 
> like that to a boy (and a close friend, at that) and have expected 
> him to take it as a generic, blanket sort of statement - as a 30 year 
> old, I'd still assume that by saying something like this I'm
> letting the guy know I'm interested! 
> 

I have to agree  with B, I would never (as a 14 year old or now as a 30 year 
old) say that as a generic statement.  Maybe Ron isn't the only one that 
doesn't get it.  :)  Is it me or does this seem like a Venus/Mars thing?  We 
woman think we are being *so* incredibly obvious and the men think, *what* 
the heck is she talking about?  


Simon also wrote:
> < Hermione's point would not have been as well made if the comment 
> were aimed at Harry or both. It is Ron that is making a deal out of 
> this 'consorting with the enemy' and so Hermione is pointing out that 
> in future if he does not want this to happen then he will have to act 
> first.>
> 
> Yes, by saying he should ask her to be his date. If she
> wasn't actually suggesting to Ron specifically that he should
> have asked, then why say it at all - why not just tell him to bugger 
> off? 
> 

Thanks B.  I think that was my original point.  *Why* would she *tell* him to 
ask her out if she didn't want to.  Again, this is from the female POV.  I 
know that I would *never* say something like that to someone that I didn't 
want to ask me out.  



-Mo
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