Hermione's Choice (SHIP)

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No: HPFGUIDX 37722

Barb wrote:
 
> "All the good-looking ones taken, Ron?" said Hermione loftily 
> [perhaps including herself here, since she is in fact 
> taken], "Eloise Midgen starting to look quite pretty now, is she?  
> Well, I'm sure you'll find someone *somewhere* who'll have you."
> 
> OUCH!  Somehow, though, she doesn't feel the need to needle Harry, 
> and she WAS just nagging him previously about working on the egg, 
so 
> it's not like she's walking on eggshells around him or anything.

The reason she needles Ron instead of Harry here is that it was Ron, 
not Harry, who admitted that the plan was to ask the best-looking 
girl who would have him, even if she's completely horrible.  Why pick 
on Harry at this point?  All he's done is get turned down.  He didn't 
insult Eloise Midgen or treat Hermione like a useful commodity ("you 
can go with one of us"--as Hermione would say, "Honestly!").

Amy