SHIP: Ron & the Yule Ball

[cassandraclaire at mail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 13658

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., wings909 at a... wrote:

> 
> I haven't exactly been following this discussion from day one, 
but...has no one pointed out that Harry goes out of his way to point 
out to Mrs. Weasley  that he and Hermione are just friends? (If so 
then ignore my late ramblings.)  Now, that may have been just to get 
Mrs. W to stop being so cold to Hermione in the first place, but I've 
always wondered if the reason why Mrs. W was so cold to her was 
because she knew of her son's crush on Hermione.  She  
immediately "became warmer to Hermione after that."  Mrs. W may have 
motherly  affections for Harry, but I feel that she was thinking of 
Ron's feelings for  Hermione, who was made out by Skeeter to be 
a "Scarlet Woman."  
> 
> Cheers,
> Paula


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It seems pretty clear that the reason that Mrs. Weasley was cold to 
Hermione was that she had read the Rita Skeeter article claiming that 
Hermione had broken Harry's heart. In fact, she states as much, and I 
see no reason to assume that she is lying or that there's any more to 
it. The moment she found out that Hermione didn't hurt Harry, as 
Harry and Hermione were just friends, she stopped being cold to 
Hermione. I think we would all agree that Mrs. Weasley loves Harry 
and is protective of him and that there is nothing wrong with that. 
This seems to me as clear and obvious as the fact that Ron likes 
Hermione, and I don't really think there's any subtext there to 
explore. Sorry. 

Cassandra