Ron. Incredibly dense- typical teen boy Was (R&H's spat after the ball)

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No: HPFGUIDX 34706

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "david_p2002ca" <david_p at i...> wrote about 
R&H's fight after the ball paralleling it  to a lover's spat in a 
Russian book "The Hidden War" by Artyom Borovik.  

> "What a fool you are!"
> "And why is that?" Kirillov asked, dumbfounded.
> "Because no matter how many times you invite me to dance, I won't 
> dance with you," she said, turning away from him.
> "Where did you get the idea I would even ask you?" Kirillov 
> asked... "I wasn't even thinking of asking you to dance," he 
blurted clumsily.  "Understand?"
> "And that's exactly why," she said, turning back to him, "you are a 
> fool."

I don't know the ages of the two characters in the Hidden War, but 
the point readers have to remember about the Potterverse is that the 
main characters are TEENS! In GofF, the trio is 15 and the sad state 
of that is girls mature faster than boys and sometimes boys at that 
age are dense as bricks!

How many chapters did Ron and Harry not speak to each other? As I 
remember 15, I got in stupider arguments than that.

Yes Hermione is maturing faster, possibly gigling with Ginny off 
screen about dressing up and showing off for the Yule ball. I won't 
guess on the chances of H and Krum, but the core of the R&H argument 
was from H feeling overlooked while Ron fauned over Fleur (who 
honestly was 3 years older. Not a snowball's chance, but Ron can 
dream, can't he?"

H blew up when Ron remarked insensitively, "Hey, You're a girl."
"Thank you for noticing!"
Hopefully Ron will catch up a little to Hermione in the summer. If 
they build something on top of their friendship, it will be really 
special. I think JKR has the skill to treat it carefully as it should 
be.

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