Hermione and Krum

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 39809

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
> I asked:
> 
> What's Hermione playing at with Viktor
> > anyway? Is anybody really comfortable about her being in a
> > relationship with a seventeen year old boy?
> 
> Irene:
> 
> >>>>Yes, I'm comfortable with what we have seen so far.
> >She really needed someone who respects her love of learning
> >and sees her on her own and not as a part of the trio.<<<
> 


Let's try to break down what we are really talking about. We have a 
seventh-year going to a prom-type dance with a fourth-year. In 
American high school terms, we have a senior asking out a freshman, 
which happens WAY more than anyone would like to believe.

And what really happened? They went. They talked over dinner. They 
had at least one dance.

What didn't happen? They didn't end up in any of those bushes that 
Snape was busting apart. Hermione didn't get home too late. In fact, 
she made it home before Harry did, because he walked in on her and 
Ron fighting.

I think Hermione's virtue is intact.

Maybe for one night, Hermione enjoyed being appreciated for something 
other than her mind. Not only are her two best friends boys, she 
really has no interaction at all with other girls except Ginny 
Weasley. You get the impression that Lavender Brown and Parvati 
Partil, etc... have their own little girly clique, and Hermione is 
kind of the bookish tomboy, a younger Nancy Drew, except without the 
boyfriend Nick. For one night, she got to be a princess. 

Now, is Hermione going to turn into a party girl, even if she does 
see  Viktor again? Come on, we're talking about a girl who once 
traveled through time to take more classes. 

She's Muggle-born in a world where that can limit you -- think of 
Hermione's future employment chances at the ministry so long as Fudge 
is there, for instance. Just like many minorities in the real Muggle 
world, she has to work twice as hard and knows it. I doubt seriously 
we're looking at the descent of Hermione here.

As for Viktor, I wouldn't worry too much about him. In fact, I would 
hope this has been an eye-opener for him. Hermione is not a unique 
girl by any means; there are plenty of smart, pretty girls out there 
if you look hard enough. Maybe the Quidditch God will be a bit more 
selective when he gets back to Bulgaria.

"darrin burnett"