[HPforGrownups] SHIP: Love triangle?

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

No: HPFGUIDX 25743

In a message dated 9/7/01 9:14:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
pennylin at swbell.net writes:


> That is: Ron likes Hermione, who likes 
> Harry, who likes no one or someone else outside the Trio.  As I said 
> sometime recently, I become more & more convinced of this the more I 
> think about it.  


I was actually thinking about Harry and Hermione today- more or less as a 
result of the recent "howl" discussions, and I realized a few things which 
may or may not be important.
First - background - most boys with normal upbringings have been hugged and 
kissed by girls&women at least on occasion, by the time they are 11, going on 
12. By mom, sisters, aunts, grandmothers, the annoying great aunt who pinches 
cheeks. 
In his conscious memory, Harry has not. Never. 
The first hug he can remember is en route to confront Voldemort - 
"Hermione'slip trembled, and she suddenly dashed at Harry and threw her arms 
around him."
I was also thinking that the first kiss he ever has was also from Hermione at 
the end of GoF, but he was actually kissed by all 3 chasers during PoA, when 
they win the match against ravenclaw, so there goes that argument. 
But I do think that the fact that Hermione is the first person who hugs him 
must have some import in his life. 


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