Hermione's Choice (SHIP)

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No: HPFGUIDX 37748

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "lupinesque" <lupinesque at y...> wrote:
> 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.


Amy wrote:
> 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!").


Actually, the reason she needles Ron in this conversation is that 
it's a continuation of the previous exchange where Fred tells Ron 
and Harry that they had better hurry up and ask someone or all the 
*good ones* will be gone.  Ron goes on to say to Harry:
"'We *should* get a move on, you know...ask someone.  He's right.  
We don't want to end up with a pair of trolls'. Hermione let out a 
splutter of indignation. 'A pair of ...what, excuse me?'
<exchange about Eloise Midgen>
'Oh, I see,' Hermione said, bristling.  'So basically, you're going 
to take the best-looking girl who'll have you, even if she's 
completely horrible?'
'Er - yeah, that sounds about right,' said Ron.'
Hermione seems to be taking this attitude a bit too personally, and 
is quick to throw it in Ron's face later when he has been turned 
down.  I don't really think that it's Eloise Midgen she's defending 
here.
I also don't think that she's unaware of Harry's interest in Cho, 
either.  After all, she's there along with Ron when Harry sees Cho 
at the World Cup and spills the water all over himself, as well as 
later at Hogwarts when she tells both of them to *put their eyes 
back in*.  If Ron knows Harry likes Cho, then Hermione surely has 
picked up on it.  She just doesn't seem to have any particular 
feelings about it (unlike her reaction to Ron's obvious interest in 
Fleur ;--).


Jo Serenadust