SHIPping Attitudes

[grace701]

No: HPFGUIDX 55802

> <pennylin at s...> wrote:
> >> now that we'veheard JKR say that "certain feelings" between 
> the three of them will come intoplay, I'm even more convinced 
> that the "platonic friends" comment was aslimited and narrow in 
> time scope as I've always believed.<<
> 
> Pippin replied: <<<<I'm coming in late here, so forgive me if I 
> missed something, but has anybody pointed out that it's also a 
> more mature feeling to be able to accept a hug from your 
> platonic friend without  discomfort?
> 
> Hermione's a hugger, and IIRC in canon it makes both boys 
> uncomfortable right up through the end of GoF, where Harry gets 
> a hug and doesn't fend her off (but it's undercut by the Kiss). If 
> JKR wants us to see Ron and Hermione's first mutual hug as a 
> Big Moment, she (and Kloves) are building up to it the right 
> way.>>>>>>>
> 
> Penny rejoined:
> >>>I'm not sure I'm following the transition from Rowling 
> conceding that the romance angle involves feelings between all 
> *3* members of the Trio to a R/H Big Moment.  :--)<<

Pippin wrote: 
> Eh? Where did Rowling mention a "romance angle"? She said, 
> "...you get hints of certain feelings between the three of them, 
> that belong to a sort of a, a slightly more mature person." My 
> point is, there's more than one sort of mature feeling. 
> 
> Boys transitioning to adolescence are apt to be prickly about 
> being hugged by girls or even by  their mothers. At the end of 
> GoF,   Harry gets kissed, and doesn't yelp, "Hermione!" . He lets 
> Molly hug him and doesn't  wish Ron wasn't  looking on. Those 
> are more mature feelings than we saw earlier, IMO, and 
> foreshadow  Harry's becoming more comfortable with affection 
> in general.


Okay I tried not to get involved in this SHIPping debate because I 
absolutely talk nonsense when I do, but I would like to slightly 
disagree with what Pippin wrote above.  Yes Harry is becoming older 
and mature, but with the R---->Hr clues that we get from GoF, how 
can it not make the majority of us think that the "mature feeling" 
that they are *all* feeling is not romantic.  We see it all around 
in GoF from Cedric and Cho to Fleur and Roger Davies (I think it was 
him).  Harry is realizing this more than anything else.  And it is 
something that Chris Columbus incorporates in CoS.  We don't see 
anyone else hugging Harry in the movie besides Hermione.  Where was 
Mrs. Weasley to give him a hug or Charlie to give him a slap on the 
back when he swooshes away to talk to good old Mr. Weasley.  We just 
get Mrs. Weasley asking him if he wants a "spot of breakfast", no 
kiss or hug when he arrives.  

It is clear to me that Chris Columbus, Kloves and JKR are 
insinuating romantic feelings between, or amongst, the three.  

Greicy, who's going back to lurking