First Crush - Ron/Fleur

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No: HPFGUIDX 27549

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., b.jebenstreit at b... wrote:

> Yes, I agree, that was a first flush off hormones for Ron there. But
> compared with Hermione´s crush on Lockhart a year earlier or
Ron´s
> with Fleur a year later, it is still a mild case. :-)

I don't think Ron has crush on Fleur; I see that more as a case of 
(to quote Ron) animal magnetism. He thinks she's pretty (everyone 
does), but his attraction seems much more veela-inspired than crush-
like (he admits he'd pretty must lost control when he invited her to 
the ball, and his reaction at seeing her at the ball was 
embarrassment - not jealously that she was with someone else).  I 
think Fleur is veela-attraction, and I agree that Rosmert was 
a "flush of hormones" - but I think Hermione is his first actual 
crush (jealously, won't admit to an attraction, etc).

B