SHIP: Hermione & the Boys/ Ginny Weasley

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 15282

Hi --

catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk wrote:

> No, no, no... RON and Hermione.  I have become quite obsessed with
> this.

> All this seems more likely on rereading, in light of JKR's comments
> in the Comic Relief online interview.  Someone asked if Hermione
> liked Ron as more than just a friend, and she said that the answer to
> that was in GoF.  Therefore I am sure that there will be developments
> at some stage.

Ah, you're *sure* about that, are you?  There's plenty of H/H evidence
in GoF too, you know.  Her answer was quite ambiguous in my mind.
Hermione's feelings are quite open to more than one interpretation.  <g>

Like Heidi said, some of us think the fact that she kissed Harry at the
end of GoF could be a signal that she has romantic interest in Harry.
She chose to spend virtually all her time with Harry when Harry & Ron
were fighting.  She couldn't be bothered to talk to Viktor Krum, who had
just saved her from the lake & declared his feelings for her, because
she was too busy cheering for & talking to *Harry*.  Krum is jealous
enough of Harry as a potential romantic rival to confront Harry about
their relationship, and what he says is that Hermione talks about Harry
all the time!  We are not led to believe that he has a similar
conversation with Ron or that he in any way regards Ron as a threat to
his relationship with Hermione.  Krum doesn't cite Skeeter's article as
the basis for his jealousy -- he bases it entirely on Hermione's very
own actions.  Skeeter also apparently perceives that there's a possible
angle there.  If Hermione's feelings for Ron were really all that
obvious, why would Skeeter think that her articles about H & H would
touch a nerve?  Skeeter clearly has an agenda .... if there was truly
nothing there, then would she have used that particular angle or tried
to find something else to get at Harry?

So .... you get my point.  "The answer is in GoF" is really no answer at
all in my mind.  :--)

> Ginny and Hermione are developing into stronger female characters all
> the time, and I think there will come a time when Ron and Harry will
> recognise Ginny's worth and stop treating her as Ron's baby sister.

Hermione has always been a strong character.  She's developing into a
more poised young woman, but she's always been strong.

I heavily dispute the notion that Ginny is growing into a stronger
character.  She's still actively excluded from the Trio.  She gets very
little development or "on-screen time" in GoF (a tad more than PoA but
then, what would it take?).  What is Ginny's "worth"?  We don't know
hardly anything about her.  She's the most undeveloped Weasley character
at this point.  All we know is that she's chatty at home but hopelessly
shy around Harry.  She was Riddle's pawn/victim in CoS.  What else do we
really know about Ginny?  We don't even know who she hangs around with
(we know the twins' best friend is Lee and that Fred has some sort of
relationship with Angelina).  I maintain we know next to nothing about
Ginny.  Sorry, but I can't get behind the H/G ship at all without *alot*
more info on little Ginny.  Being a Weasley is not enough in my mind
(yeah, I know ... I just lost any shot of ever joining W.A.I.L.,
right?).  <g>

> (By the way, what is a Shipper?)

Read the VFAQs!

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/files/VFAQ.htm

Penny



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