Harry, Hermione & Ron [SHIP + CRAB]

[Doriane]

No: HPFGUIDX 74599


"greatelderone" :
And if we bring up Rowling's quotes then she also has said that the 
trio have all fallen in love with the wrong people in GoF (Harry/Cho, 
Hermione/Viktor, Ron/Hermione) and since the Harry/Cho is already 
sunk then you are going to bet that the Hermione/Viktor and the 
Ron/Hermione ships are next.

C M :
I'm with you on Harry/Cho and Hermione/Viktor, but can we really be 
sure that she wasn't referring to Ron/Fleur with that comment? She 
*is* the one he asked to the Yule Ball.

Charlie Moody :

That's the "Veela effect", magically-assisted hormone-displacement -
about as personal as getting stuck in traffic.  It's an arguable 
point, but I really don't see that it counts for much more than if he 
were just admiring some stranger's profile from a distance.

Certainly, it's nothing like developing a genuine fondness for / 
attraction to someone - and isn't that what we're talking about?  
Who's having real feelings for whom?

And finally me, Del :

About the Veela effect : it's true that Ron is attracted to her only 
because of the hormonal power of the Veelas. But can you tell me why 
Harry is attracted to Cho, if not for a purely hormonal reason ? He 
likes her because a) she's pretty, and b) she's a Quidditch player. 
He doesn't like her for her personality, since he doesn't know 
*anything* about her personality as he painfully discovers in OoP. 
His attraction to her cannot be described as "a genuine fondness", 
only as an irrational attraction. In other words, he's got a crush on 
her. And a crush is mainly a matter of hormones and irrational body 
reactions to someone. It very rarely depends on how much you actually 
know that person. So if the Ron/Fleur relationship cannot be the one 
JKR was talking about in the interview, then neither can the 
Harry/Cho one be...
As for the Viktor/Hermione one. Obviously we can't know what kind of 
feelings Viktor has for Hermione, we can't know if he's actually in 
love with her, if it's just a crush, if he's just lonely, or if she 
reminds him of the rabbit he had when he was 4 years old (just 
kidding ;-). But we can deduce from her actions that she doesn't seem 
horribly taken with him. Not enough anyway to accept his invitation 
to spend the summer with him. Now, my teenage years are not that far 
away that I don't remember how it felt to be in love with/have a 
crush on someone : I would have gladly given up *anything* to follow 
a boy I was interested in. So either Hermione has a much greater 
sense of responsibility and doesn't want to desert Harry and The 
Cause in those hard times (could be, she *is* a particularly serious 
little witch after all), or she's simply not that interested in him. 
As a friend, yes, considering the length of the letter we see her 
writing to him, but no more. Actually, the fact that we DO see her 
writing that letter in company of the boys would make me think that 
it's not a romantic letter : she would probably do it in private. But 
I sure wonder what's in it...

And as for Ron/Hermione : I'm a huge R/H SHIPper, but I'm not blind. 
Those two have a special fondness for each other, for sure, but none 
of them has yet reached the romantic attraction point yet. Not Ron, 
and definitely not Hermione. Ron is horribly jealous all right, but I 
don't see that he's anywhere close to realizing what this jealousy 
means. He probably sees it more like a big brother kind of jealousy. 
After all, he *does* react badly when he discovers that Ginny has 
been happily dating all over the place. Of course, we R/H SHIPpers 
clearly see that those 2 kinds of jealousy don't have much in common, 
but neither Ron nor the others SHIPpers seem to notice it (I'm just 
having fun, no offence meant to anyone ;-)

Del