SHIPping Attitudes

[Laura]

No: HPFGUIDX 56068

Don't ask me why I'm trying to stop this thread.  I know it won't 
work.

But "certain feelings between the 3 of them" means "certain feelings 
between the 3 of them."

I think most of us agree that Ron has "certain feelings" for 
Hermione.  The use of the number "3" leads us to believe that there 
is at least one other arrow out there.

But guess what?  That one little sentance gives us absolutely NO 
INFORMATION about what that other arrow might be.

In the movie all kinds of hints are flying for feelings in every 
which direction.  JKR simply said that the direction or screenwriter 
or whoever it is we're talking about alluded to these feelings in 
Episode #2, while JKR didn't really bring them up until Episode #4.

The end. =)

IMHO, there are arrows everywhere.  You have 3 adolescents, two males 
and one female, who are all very close friends.  You mean to tell me 
that only *one* of them has any kind of crush/romantic feelings?  

Someone has already mentioned that Hermione may well have considered 
Ron and Harry as romantic partners, and I think it's rather silly to 
argue that there is no way that she hasn't.  Granted, she hasn't 
shown any of these feelings, but that's because *she's Hermione*  She 
is very logical and practical.  I highly doubt she would show any 
feelings for someone until she was absolutely sure that she had 
feelings for them, that they had feelings for her, that a 
relationship would be practical, ect.  Hermione isn't exactly the 
passionate type to suddenly blurt out, "Oh my gosh 
[Harry/Ron/Draco/insert name here], I really like you!" and then lean 
in and give them a kiss.  She is going to make pretty damn sure she 
knows what she's doing and then take it slow from there.  She could 
very well "have feelings for" one or both of the male members of the 
trio.

Ron's feelings are a lot more blatant, simply because *he's Ron*  He 
*is* the sort of passionate type that Hermione isn't.  He doesn't 
take it to the extreme, but he doesn't try to hide his feelings as 
Hermione does.  Hermione is quite logical and organized.  Ron just 
is.  Ron just does whatever he *feels* like doing.  For example, in 
the famous Yule Ball fight, he is mad at Hermione and he says so.  It 
probably never occured to him to hide his feelings of anger and 
jealousy toward Krum.

This kind of thing would, however, occur to Hermione.  For the sake 
of the arguement, let's say she likes Harry.  She would stop and 
(what else?) *think* before showing any jealousy towards Pavarati.  
Of course, this wouldn't make any sense in the context of the story, 
since there really was nothing between them to be jealous *of* <g>, 
but I use it as an example.

Hermione acts based on what she thinks.  Ron acts based on what he 
feels.  So we clearly see Ron's feelings, whereas Hermione's are 
harder to decipher, because it's entirely probable that she's hiding 
something.

As for Harry, I think we get a pretty clear indication that he likes 
Cho.  Based on that, I think that any feelings for Hermione would be 
stated in similar manners.  For example, he doesn't imagine 
Hermione's face "glowing with admiration" should he win the Triwizard 
Tournament.  This isn't to say that he and Hermione might make a good 
match or that there may be some feelings in the future, but based on 
the fact that the books are written from Harry's POV, I think we can 
say that if Harry likes Hermione, he hasn't even admitted it to 
himself yet (as there are subtle hints).

So basically, we have Ron liking Hermione, Harry liking Cho (and if 
Hermione enters the picture, only as a peripheral) and Hermione too 
busy studying to care about guys. =)

-Laura
that was way longer than I intended it to be.  I really didn't mean 
to contribute this much to s *SHIP* debate.  *sigh*