SHIP: Possibility Hermione has romantic feelings

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 34047

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Penny & Bryce <pennylin at s...> wrote:
> lucky_kari wrote:
> > 1. Hermione is a cruel insensitive girl who implies to  Ron that 
she
> > would go to a ball with him, knowing perfectly well what his 
feelings
> > are, when she wouldn't.
> > 2. Hermione does return some of the interest.
> 
> OR
> 
> 3.  Hermione, offended because her friend assumes that he can just 
use 
> her as a last-ditch date when he can't get a "pretty girl" and then 
even 
> more offended when said friend questions her ethics in choosing 
another 
> date, throws off some remarks in the heat of an argument.  Maybe she 
> would have phrased her remarks differently if they'd been having a 
cool, 
> calm conversation.

This is just a slightly different rephrasing of #1. I've seen no 
evidence to show that Hermione is cruel and insensitive in the heat of 
argument, or otherwise, anywhere in the books. It's what of the things 
I find attractive about her personality. 


> 4.  Hermione, who has a bit of romantic interest in more than one 
boy 
> (gasp!  Can teenage girls do *that*?!), sends off some mixed 
signals.

And this is just #2 all over again. Surely, the fact that she does 
seem to have some feelings in return for Ron does not mean she will 
marry him! But I've noticed that H/H shippers refuse to even 
acknowledge that such feelings exist in this scene. 

> You may interpret her remark as an indicator that she *would* accept 
his 
> invitation of a date at some point in the future, but I don't think 
it 
> absolutely follows that she would. 

No, I don't think it absolutely follows that she would, but it implies 
it, with words like "You know what the solution is." Now, if it wasn't 
Hermione (if it was me who had said it, for example), I'd put it down 
to, "They were arguing. She got a jab in at him," but, as I mentioned 
before, the thing which is so attractive about Hermione is she doesn't 
act like that. She exemplifies  charity in a non-goody-two-shoes 
manner. 

Eileen