[HPforGrownups] Harry, Ron, Percy and Dating/Relationships

Mon Sep 24 01:35:34 UTC 2001

No: HPFGUIDX 26582

--- Eric Oppen <oppen at cnsinternet.com> wrote:

> I actually thought that Harry and Ron were right in
> character for boys of
> the age they were at the Yule Ball.  Most boys that
> age aren't wildly
> interested in dating quite yet; their female
> age-mates are, but are usually
> interested in boys a few years older than
> themselves, due to the differing
> maturation rates between males and females.  

    Harry apparently considered his duty done after
one dance, his behavior was due to inexperience and
forgivable. *Ron* on the other hand paid no attention
to his partner at all, barely even looked at her. Even
a fourteen year old boy should have known better than
that! but he was too busy being jealous of Hermione.

> As Ron and Harry get older, their dating technique
> will no doubt improve.
> Also, there is nothing about being female that
> automatically gives
> cluefulness about how to treat a partner on a
> date---

   Too true. Look at Fleur Delacour; admittedly she
might have been taken aback at being asked out by a
boy several years younger than herself who she's never
so much as spoken to but it wouldn't have hurt her to
give him a civil 'no' now would it? 

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