SHIP: HRH Love triangle & Ron's downfall

[allies426]

No: HPFGUIDX 75771

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ghinghapuss" <rredordead at a...> 
wrote:

>And Harry and Hermione are most certainly in love, but 
> neither realizes it. 
> 

Hmm, I don't know about that.  I'm sure this has been debated 
endlessly already, but Harry most definitely knows how Ron feels. In 
GoF, when Ron and Hermione get in that shouting match over her going 
to the ball with Krum, and Hermione says 
 "Next time there's a ball, ask me before someone else does and not 
as a last resort!"
Ron sputtered... "completely missed the point..."
Harry... "but he somehow thought that Hermione had gotten the point 
much better than Ron had." 
The closest Harry has ever come to showing interest in Hermione is 
when he says in OoP that he doesn't think she's ugly.  :)
Just out of curiosity- did it seem to everyone else that the 
Ron/Hermione (or even H/H) angle was VERY downplayed in OoP?  I 
wondered why, when it seemed like it was so set up after GoF.

Allie