SHIP: Hermione & the Boys

[cassandraclaire at mail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 15308

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., bbennett at j... wrote:

> It may be above and beyond a conversation starter if you've moved
> on to friendship; it might not be if you know the person likes you 
> romantically, you don't return the feelings, and you're trying to
> be friendly and offer polite conversation while keeping your 
> distance. We really don't know what Hermione thinks of Viktor,
> but if she likes him yet has no romantic interest in him and wants 
to   keep a line drawn between them, then sure, I could see her 
continuing  to bring up Harry, a point in common, as a distraction 
> to stop their conversation from turning more personal. 
> B, who used just such a conversational tactic last week when 
friends  introduced her to a nice young gentleman in whom she had no 
romantic  interest but did not wish to offend.



What, you talked to him non-stop about Harry? How did he take it? <g>

Hermione might indeed have been trying to keep their conversation 
from becoming more personal. It is no more or less likely than that 
she was doing it because she thinks about Harry a lot, and so he 
coems up in conversation; maybe it was tied in with her worry about 
Harry and the Tournament, which would be brought home to her because 
Viktor is a Champion; maybe she kept talking about Ron but Krum only 
responded "Who is this Ron? I know no Ron" and she became 
disheartened and moved to other topics; maybe she's madly in love 
with Neville and was trying to deflect Viktor's attention onto Harry 
so that when he found out her heart lay elsewhere, he wouldn't pound 
Neville into the ground. B. is now wondering if Cassie has a point, 
and Cassie really doesn't, except that yet again due to Harry's POV 
we really have no idea why Hermione talks about Harry so often to 
Krum. Alas! I did think it was significant upon my first read, but 
that's subjective.


Now I am going to go and sit with Heidi in the Draco/Hermione study 
room, because that's my happy place. (And Heidi has a great take on 
Hermione's reaction to Ron's behavior at the Ball in "Surfeit of 
Curses". Plug, plug!)

Cassie