Ron/Hermione and other paraphernalia

Rebecca Boswell rboswell at mediaone.net
Wed Mar 7 22:52:25 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 13814

    Woah~ Brace yourselves, long post ahead!

    ::smiles:: Something has been dedicated to *me*!  ::gloats:: Heeheeee! I
have my own song thing! YAYAYAY! Thank you, thank you, thank you Caius!  And
it's super cute too!  :-)

    ARGGHH! My argument.down the toilet! ::sobs:: Good job, Alicia!  You
have a very good point, and I am yet again dislodged in a rowboat between
the H/Hr and R/Hr ships.   But, I still firmly hold that JKR *is* going for
R/Hr in canon.  I have to applaud Morsus and Firoza immensely as well for
their two knuts into the R/Hr ship, I was looking all day for the quote that
Firoza had from JKR:
"Oh, I like this one. 'Do Harry and Hermione have a date?' No. Harry and
Hermione are very platonic. But I won't speak for anyone else, nudge nudge
wink wink."  Very VERY strong point, Firoza!
    I personally don't have only friends who are guys.but I do have some
very good friends who are guys.  Alicia and Celeste have some superiority in
that area to me.  From my perspective, though, I openly state that Ron does
like Hermione.  There are so many obvious places where that is stated in the
book, and there is no denying it.  Whether Ron consciously knows that yet is
another thing.  His sub-consciousness is totally infatuated with Hermione,
but he's in denial.  That substantiates for the pig-headedness,
impulsiveness, and idiocy in the situation with Hermione and Krum.  I have
three conflicting views of Hermione that I will have to clarify to myself
sometime in the future. One is of a completely outspoken and empowered girl
who will tell people her point of view whether they like it or not, and the
second is of a more reserved but still straightforward girl who argues a lot
of the time (be it SPEW or Ron, etc.).  Basically, on a scale of 1-10 in
straightforwardness, one Hermione is a 7, one an 8.5, and one a strong 10.
All of them have the possibility to be just royally pissed at Ron, or the
possibility to be insulted and trying to tell Ron inconspicuously that what
he said really hurt her in more than one way.  There is a lot of room for
interpretation, and it all depends on your point of view.
    I don't agree that Hermione would have equally lashed out with such
force against Dean or Seamus as she did to Ron.  Ron is one of her closest
friends, and naturally she feels more comfortable saying things to him, if
they're good or not.  If Harry had done the same thing, I think he would
have had an easier time as well, even though he's Hermione's friend.  Note:
I THINK.  I don't know this for sure, because Hermione hasn't been royally
pissed off at Harry nor had any of the forceful confrontations she's had
with Ron.  Hermione has arguments naturally with Ron, and that's part of
their friendship, so I think she jumped into full-argument mode with Ron
easier than she would have with Harry.

Some R/Hr interpretation points:

"Well, if you don't like it, you know what the solution is, don't you?"
yelled Hermione. "Next time there's a ball, ask me before someone else does,
and not as a last resort!".
Ron mouthed soundlessly like a goldfish out of water."Well.well--that just
proves--completely missed the point."

 Ron lost the argument that he started, noticed he was being an ass, and
found a hint of jealously toward Krum coming out.  But, one other point is,
was Hermione (un)intentionally trying to make Ron really upset by appealing
to the fact that he likes her, or just trying to prove her point.  To quote
Morsus,
<snip>
She may have some hidden feelings for him, and that could be a part of this
statement. Then again, she might have been trying to humilite him by letting
on that she knew how he felt about her. It might have been an unintentional
below-the-belt (<g>) hit on her part.
<unsnip>

"Known what?" said Ron quickly. "You haven't been mixing up Love Potions,
have you?"
"Don't be stupid," Hermione snapped, starting to pound up her beetles again.
"No, it's just.how did she know Viktor asked me to visit him over the
summer?"
 Hermione  blushed scarlet as she said this and determinedly avoided Ron's
eyes.
 "What?" said Ron, dropping his pestle with a loud clunk..
"And what did you say?" Ron repeated, pounding his pestle down so hard it
dented the desk.
 "Well, I was too busy seeing whether you and Harry were okay to---"

Lots of stuff here! =-).  Ron questions Hermione, Hermione snaps at Ron,
then blushes and won't look at him, Ron beats up his desk.  Now, Ron is
either very jealous here or in big-brother-mode.  Hermione is embarrassed
that Ron's defenses are going up.  Now, why Hermione's embarrassed because
of Ron is either that she isn't going to go with Krum and she's flattered
that Ron is worried or because Ron is making a big deal out of nothing (to
her).  This could be a sign that Hermione likes Ron because she avoids his
eyes and gets shy-ish, and it is a sign that Ron likes Hermione.  I could
probably elaborate.but I have math homework to do so this post is in haste.

 "If you don't know," said Ron scathingly, "then I'm not going to tell you."

 Hmm, this most probably isn't fraternizing with the enemy he's talking
about here.  He's jealous and he's pouting.

 Well, for the time being I'm running out of arguments for the R/Hr ship.
Just out of curiosity, is there any evidence to Hermione liking Harry other
than the kiss on the cheek?  I honestly don't think that can amount to
anything, seeing as in Miami a kiss on the cheek is like a handshake.
Maybe it's different in the UK?  I have no idea...but in my opinion its just
a friendly kiss.  Well, signing off!

---Becca, whose fingers are getting tired already and has to finish a
Biology essay.----





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