SHIP: Re: Harry, Hermione & Ron

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 74833

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "C M" <cmurph18 at y...> wrote:

>Of course I've thought that. But, as I think my post indicated, 
>*I* don't see the waters as being muddied. Fleur thanks and kisses 
>Harry, then turns and does the same to Ron. THEN we hear that 
>Hermione looks furious. 

GEO: Probably because Harry's attention was still on the kiss and the 
story is told from his limited pov so he wouldn't have noticed 
Hermione being furious when Fleur was kissing him since he would be 
distracted. It was only after the kiss that he noticed that Hermione 
was furious while at the same time Fleur was kissing Ron. 

>Also, while JKR may not be giving away her hand in that paragraph, 
>what is she doing with interview comments suggesting that the 
>tension is between Ron and Hermione, in response to a question about 
>Hermione and Harry getting involved?

GEO: Tension does not equal future relationship. Imo the R/H shippers 
are playing right into her hands by believing that the Katie Couric 
interview was a confirmation on her part. If anything that was a 
dodge by Rowling.

> Hermione could have been impatient because Harry either hadn't 
> understood or was stalling to answer her question ("Are you going 
to 
> see her again?").

GEO:But why be impatient? It was not exactly her business and as you 
stated she was more "intellectually ruled". So I find it confusing 
that Hermione would be impatient to find out if he was going out with 
Cho. 

> 
> Her distant demeanor indicates an emotional connection? You do 
> realize how contradictory that sounds, right? And that it could 
just 
> as easily be argued that she, being an intellectually-ruled (as 
> opposed to emotionally-ruled) person in general, has a tendency to 
> try to look at and explain things in an orderly, businesslike 
> fashion? 

GEO:Then why is it that she is impatient in one moment while in the 
next she becomes distant. If anything the change occurs when she 
knows that Harry is going to go out with Cho. Now then if she didn't 
have an emotional connection why would she become distant and 
businesslike when she learns that Harry has plans with Cho unless she 
wants to conceal her emotions. 
 
> Ron and Hermione are friends. Therefore, 
> either of these pairings could ultimately result in a friendship-
> based relationship. But because Ron gets jealous and gave Hermione 
> perfume and they have mutual spats they can't have a friendship-
based 
> relationship?

In regards to Ron and Hermione, their friendship is nothing compared 
to the one shared by Harry and Hermione. Those two finish each others 
sentences, know what the other is thinking and when they argue they 
actually argue at relevant and valid issues and are quick to 
reconcile in contrast to the Ron and Hermione friendship which is 
marked by petty bickering and a lack of communication and knowledge 
of the other.  

> 
> Of course, there's a simple solution to the dilemma you describe. 
> Harry and Hermione could get involved with other friends who are 
> already well aware of (and not threatened by) their friendship. 
> Like...I don't know...Ron and Ginny, maybe?
 
GEO: The H/G ship is pretty much sunk since Ginny has grown out of 
her crush. If it even begins then it begins incredibly flawed since 
the two are forced together by Ron who wants them to date at the end 
of Ootp. If anything else Ginny still sees Harry as the champion who 
banished Voldemort as a baby and when she got a glimpse of the very 
real and angry Harry she didn't like it all.