Fleur kisses Ron?-Re Semicolon debate

[heidi.h.tandy.c92 at alumni.upenn.edu]

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., catherine at c... wrote:

> 
> In the English version it says:-
> "Fleur bent down, kissed Harry twice on each cheek (he felt his 
face 
> burn....), then said to Ron, "And you, too - you 'elped-"
> Fleur swooped down on him, too, and kissed him.  Hermione looked 
> simply furious..."
> 
> JKR only says Hermione looks furious after Fleur has kissed Ron.  I 
> think that this is a prime example of JKR dropping hints.  
Otherwise 
> she should have put the Hermione bit in before Ron was mentioned.  
> And, if you think about it, what is more natural than Fleur to 
react 
> by giving Harry a kiss after she thinks that he has saved her 
> sister's life?  

Then what could be more natural than FLeur, who after all is French, 
and therefore may be more prone to kissing as a thank you than the 
more reserved Brits are, kissing Ron because he helped? FLeur doesn't 
know that Ron did nothing until they got up to the surface - and 
neither, at that moment, does Hermione.
Plus, going back to the fail-safe Harry's Perspective theory, when 
he's being smooched by Fleur, he's more conscious of his face burning 
and the surprise he's feeling, and also possibly affected by her 
Veelaness, her being so physically close and all, whereas when Ron 
gets his Fleur-kisses, Harry's more conscious of the others around 
him, including Hermione. If it said, "Hermione's mouth twisted into a 
frown" then you could easily percieve it as a reaction to Ron, 
because that would suggest that she hadn't been frowning before, but 
in the text (I'm not talking subtext here) there is nothing to 
suggest that she didn't look furious the whole time Fleur was around.