SHIP: Hermione and Krum...

[zsenya at sugarquill.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 15358

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Scott" <harry_potter00 at y...> wrote:
> Take this scene with the trio at the Yule Ball in GoF-
> Ron:"...Fraternizing with the enemy that's what you're doing!"
> Hermione: (mouth falls open) "Don't be stupid!"
> <snip>
> Ron:"I s'pose he asked you to come with him while you were both in 
> the Library?"
> Hermione:"Yes he did, so what?"
> Ron:"What Happened- trying to get him to join SPEW, were you?"
> Hermione:"No I wasn't! If you really want to know, he- he said he'd 
> been coming to the library everyday to try and talk to me..."
> 
> I could go one but this is my general point. Ron is overtly jealous 
> but doesn't realise it. Hermione just seems to be suprised at Ron's 
> reactions. She can't believe that he is that upset over her going 
> with Krum. If she had planned to go with Krum just to make Ron 
> jealous would she really be so suprised at his reaction?

Zsenya writes: See-here's where all we shippers get bogged down and 
argumentative.  I would read that scene as not that Hermione 
is "just" surprised at Ron's reaction - and that she is surprised 
that *that's* what Ron has chosen to get upset about.  In other 
words, maybe she wanted Ron to say "hey you really do look great and 
I wish I'd asked you" but instead, he's accusing her of becoming some 
sort of double-agent.  In that scene she also mentions that she 
thought Ron would be happy - him being a big Krum fan and all, but 
now suddenly, Ron is considering Krum to be "The Enemy"

On the Comic Relief chat:  Well, I was the one who posed the 
question, and I wish now I'd worded it a bit differently. I 
specifically asked if Hermione liked Ron as more than a friend 
(because I think Ron's feelings are totally obvious).  I *should* 
have said, "there are debates out there about Hermione's feelings, 
some say she has a secret crush on Harry, others think that it's 
Krum.  I'm wondering if it's Ron that she truly likes" or something 
along those lines.  JKR said that the answer was in GoF, (another one 
of her delightful and ambiguous answers) which makes me happy, 
because I know what evidence I can now use, but really, that brings 
us around to the whole semi-colon debate, doesn't it?<vbg>

Zsenya