Harry, Hermione & Ron [SHIP + CRAB]

[C M]

No: HPFGUIDX 74707

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "greatelderone" 
<greatelderone at y...> wrote:
>>>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.<<<

Me: Do you have quotes from JKR or canon-based info on Veela's as a 
race to back this up? It seems to me that you're making some fairly 
bold assumptions here. I suspect that if Veela's were as scary and 
dangerous as you're making them sound, the Dolores Umbridges of the 
WW would have passed all sorts of anti-Veela legislation that would 
at the very least have kept them away from the World Quidditch Cup.


>>>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.<<<

Me: Again, care to give some canon on this? She may be part Veela, 
but she's also described as being quite pretty. And I'm not positive 
about this, but I think that may be something guys look for in girls 
they want to date/snog/whatever. Ron asking her to the Yule Ball may 
have been partially incited by the "Veela-ness," but I can think of a 
specific incident where he in GoF where he showed attraction to her 
that didn't have that 'hypnotized, deer-in-the-headlights' quality: 
After the second task, when she kissed him for helping to save her 
sister.

Also, out of curiosity, do you think Bill Weasley is only dating her 
because of the Veela thing?


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

Me: Which you're more than welcome to do. I happen to think that 
while *he's* very taken with *her*, she views him more as a friend 
and she seems to be keeping him at arm's length at that. Also, as 
someone else pointed out, she's writing to him in full view of Harry 
and Ron. If it was a love letter, if it was personal, I think she'd 
write it in private.


>>>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.<<<

Me: I don't think Hermione is "far from normal." She's smart and 
studious with a tendency toward bossiness. Damn if she doesn't sound 
like me and most of my friends when we were her age. As far as 
romance is concerned, while I don't think she'd ever (openly) act 
giggly or swoony over Krum, I do think that if she was truly 
interested in him, she'd have taken him up on his offer to visit him 
over the summer. Instead, oddly, she chose to spend that time helping 
the Weasley's clean Sirius's house. Yeah, that compares to several 
weeks in a foreign country on the arm of a pro-Quidditch player.

CM