SHIP: HRH Love triangle & Ron's downfall

[Christy]

No: HPFGUIDX 75861

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mom31" <mom31 at r...> wrote:
> Allie:
> 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.
> 
> 
> Joj:
> I wondered the same thing.  It would have been easy to add a few lines,
> especially since R/H spent so much time together.  Harry could have
noticed
> a closer bond between them and felt more left out.  JKR didn't do
that, and
> there has to be a reason.

Christy:

I think that like any friends that are forming a more serious
relationship, it isn't noticed as much at first. I think that Ron and
Hermione spend a lot of time together and that is noticed to some
extent. Remember in GoF when Ron and Harry are looking for dates,
Lavender (I think) assumes that Ron is going with Hermione and is
actually surprised when she isn't. And Harry is preoccupied with Cho,
as well. I don't think that Jo has left it out for a reason, other
than it hasn't been Harry's main focus. Since everything is filtered
through Harry I think that part of our not seeing it yet is that Harry
hasn't been paying much attention to it. Yet. Every book shows the
relationship seeming to progress a bit, so we may still see Ron and
Hermione together.

Christy