Harry, Hermione & Ron [SHIP + CRAB]

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 74693

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Doriane" <delwynmarch at y...> 
wrote:
> > About the Veela effect : it's true that Ron is attracted to her 
only 
> because of the hormonal power of the Veelas. 

GEO:It's not hormonal powers. If anything the Veela powers are 
something akin to the dark magics of the imperius curse and the fact 
that the Bulgarians are associated with a school teaching the dark 
arts and that the Veela can throw fire just points to them being 
closely aligned with the dark arts.

Furthermore Harry shakes off the effect that the Veela have on him 
like how he shakes off the imperius curse and the fact that people 
don't have to be under their spell if they don't look at them
or hear 
the music points to it all being magic.

>But can you tell me why 
> Harry is attracted to Cho, if not for a purely hormonal reason ? 

GEO: I agree. Harry's attraction to Cho is nothing less than 
hormones. If it was magic then he could have shook it off.

> 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...

GEO: Except the Ron/Fleur thing is more like magical mind control 
than a crush. The only reason people want her is precisely because 
she is part veela.

> But we can deduce from her actions that she doesn't seem 
> horribly taken with him. 

GEO:
Yet she still maintains a letter correspondence with Viktor. If 
anything I think she is quite 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. 

GEO:
If anything Hermione is far from a normal and average girl in either 
the muggle or wizard worlds so I don't think the same standards
put 
upon other girls apply to her because of that simple fact.